ABSTRACT
Work toward those objectives has proceeded since November 1987, the date of the first meeting devoted to exploring how advanced electronic publishing
technologies could be applied to the preparation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Early efforts are summarized in two D-Lib articles (Fox et al., 1996, 1997). A third article summarizes the first attempts to support, through federated search, access to the collection (see also https:// www.theses.org/) of ETDs that is emerging in distributed fashion (Powell and Fox, 1998).
