The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from Leiden University

Re:The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations fro... by samspenc on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @07:48PM (#41794052)

I'm guessing most recent dissertations have been digitized, but this is probably the norm only in the last 10-15 years? Most universities likely have never given thought to digitize anything from before then due to the extra costs that would be involved in digitizing those physical copies. I am curious how much such an effort would cost though.

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Re:The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations fro... by not2b on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @08:02PM (#41794151)

Everything was digital at UC Berkeley back in the early 1990s and before.

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Re:The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations fro... by Cheer2171 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @08:48AM (#41798267)

> Everything was digital at UC Berkeley back in the early 1990s and before.

I can't believe I have to say this, but not every university is UC-Berkeley. Digitization isn't free and requires specialized labor and technology.

And are you really saying that in the late 1980s, all dissertations were submitted digitally? In what format?

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Re:The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations fro... by not2b on Friday October 11, 2024 @11:18AM (#41810250)

I should have qualified this with "the engineering departments at UC Berkeley". Everything we put out (papers, technical reports, open source software) was on the Internet. Formats were varied; LaTeX and Postscript were commonly used. PDF a bit later.

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