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Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Algeria

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Published/Copyright: December 4, 2007
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From the journal Volume 53 Issue 4

In accordance with a decree issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Algeria in August 2000, an electronic copy of every Master's and PhD thesis defended in all academic institutions must be deposited at the CERIST Research Centre. Deposit is a condition for getting the diploma. CERIST is then entrusted with the mission to build a database of Algerian theses and to update the national inventory of current theses and research. However a serious problem of archiving and preserving these Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) has emerged. From December 2001 to November 2002 a great number of ETDs has been deposited and constitutes a set of more than 1000 floppy disks and 100 CD-ROMs. What guarantees that these digital materials deposited by students are preserved and safeguarded? What guarantees that the content of these materials are preserved and accessible at any time regardless of machine, operating system and software. This paper explores the problem of the long-term conservation and preservation of electronic theses in the Algerian context, and shows how international recognised standards and techniques for setting up and organising the local ETD's archives may be applied.

Yahia Bakelli & Sabrina Benrahmoun. CERIST Research Centre on Scientific and Technical Information, 03 rue des freres Aissou, Ben Aknoun, Algiers (Algeria). Tel: 21321916205-08. Fax: 21321912126. E-mail:
Received: 2003-07-07
Accepted: 2003-11-12
Published Online: 2007-12-04
Published in Print: 2003-December

© 2003 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2003.254

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Aux Armes Citoyens! Confronting the Extreme Right in French Public Libraries
  2. A Comparison of Print and Electronic Journal Holdings in Academic and Public Libraries
  3. Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK
  4. Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Algeria
  5. A Notice on Content of Library and Information Science (LIS) Schools Web Sites
  6. An Evaluation of a Health Video on Demand Service Available to the Public via Interactive Digital Television
  7. Ranking University Libraries with A Posteriori Weights
  8. 2004 Annual Award for the Best Libri Student Paper
  9. Table of Contents: Vol. 53, No. 1–4
  10. Author Index: Vol. 53, No. 1–4
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