Introducing GUIDE: Guiding Universities in Doctoral Theses in Europe

Workshop proposal for ETD2007, Uppsala

Chris Pressler, Neil Jacobs, Gerard van Westrienen


GUIDE is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). It is an open group, whose aim is to stimulate European doctoral Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) developments, by:


This 2-3 hour workshop (on Wednesday afternoon) will introduce GUIDE and its structure and current participants, describe progress so far, elaborate on GUIDE’s aims and objectives, invite feedback and dialogue, encourage sharing of activities and experiences, and agree a plan for the group to ETD 2008. To inform the discussion, there will be a presentation of practical developments to improve the availability of European ETDs, including

The workshop will be of interest to anyone working to make European ETDs available.