Mission and Goals

MISSION 

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that, through leadership and innovation, promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. The NDLTD encourages and supports the efforts of institutes of higher education and their communities to develop electronic publishing and digital libraries (including repositories), thus enabling them to share knowledge more effectively in order to unlock the potential benefits worldwide. 

Bylaws of the NDLTD

GOALS

• To be the leading international organization for promotion of ETDs worldwide.
• To provide useful and innovative resources, standards, and technology for development of ETD programs.
• To encourage institutions of higher education to use NDLTD resources and participate in NDLTD activities. 
   

Through the above activities:

• Institutions of higher education will develop their own ETD programs by adopting the submission, collection and archiving of electronic theses and dissertations to their own and to international digital libraries and repositories
• We will support the Open Access movement
• Institutions of higher education and their communities will become aware of the benefits of ETDs, including:
  
• facilitation of the writing process for students
• increased speed of sharing research methods and results
• improved distribution of research methods and results through electronic publication and archiving, leading to improved graduate education and scholarship
• reduced costs of printing, processing and storage

 Historic mission and goals (PDF)