The broadcast over the Internet of research offers new perspectives. Young researchers benefit from an increased visibility and a perennial publishing of their work. The interest is shown by the statistics. While a printed thesis, stored a university library, reach an average of one lookup in ten years, a digital thesis website is every day visited by more than 300 people (University Lyon 2 statistics).

Nowadays, published thesis are rare and the shakeout they undergo deprive off the reader from a part of the scientific part that is associated. Thanks to the XHTML broadcast, many search tools allow to browse easily in the text body and quick access to specific information.

However, this kind of publishing brought some question upon the thesis juridical aspect: