Presentation

Cyberthèses is a thesis electronic archive and diffusion program, which has french-speaking origins. Initiated by the University of Montreal Press's and University Lumière Lyon 2 with the support of the "Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes", it became over the years an international cooperation program between the universities of Lyon, Montreal, Geneva, Santiago, Dakar, Antananarivo and AJLSM. The Cyberthèse network brought together many institutions, french speaking or not, all over the world.

You will find on this website, all the documentary and educational resources developed within the framework of the program, the technical data of this conversion plat-form itself are on the www.cyberdocs.org/en website.

Project's objectives

The main point is to promote electronic thesis publication and circulation supporting digital publication international standard and using technologies which make easier the consultation and exchange of information with free software license. This cooperation produced the conception and realisation of a production line of digital documents lying on the XML standard. Cyberthèses allows thesis online indexation thanks to a collective metadata model. The platform diffusing promotes the cooperation between superior teaching institutions and guarantee a work research larger diffusion. It also becomes an effective tool for the world academic community and generalisation of the open access to the research results.


Many sides of this program answered these principles :

  • Open and free access to the thesis on the Internet in the copyright respect, allowing that the documents are real work tool answering the users needs.
  • Digital thesis database creation which contain thesis metadatas of participant institutions. Cyberthèses allows an efficient indexation and an immediate localisation which increase significantly thesis visibility and diffusion.
  • The use of free and open softwares at the different steps of production.
  • Setting up a legal framework lying on Creative Commons licenses with the free choice by the author of the license type.