About Cybertesis.NET

This Portal, developed by the University of Chile (Information Services & Library System), provides an easily accessible tool to full text electronic thesis published in different universities of the world.

Cybertesis.NET is a powerful tool of consultation that allows to make simultaneous searches through a single Web interface, and to recuperate more than 27.000 full text theses stored in 27 different servers and university repositories, by means of the use of OAI protocol (Open Archives Initiative) as a service provider (metadata harvesting).

Each university is responsible of the production, preservation and diffusion of its theses.

Besides, our university has implemented an Electronic Thesis Publication Program (Cyberdocs). The great innovation of this initiative is the integration of high standards in the production and electronic text transference. The technological platform is based on the use of open source softwares and international standards of production and transfer of electronic texts: XML, Dublin Core Metadata and Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Cyberdocs permits the conversion of theses written by students in proprietary formats into structured format (XML) automatically due to the application of a style sheet.

The Cybertesis program is the result of a project of cooperation between the Université de Montréal, the Université de Lyon2, the University of Chile and 32 universities of Europe, Africa and Chile.

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