THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ELECTRONIC DISSERTATION COLLECTIONS AND ITS USE

Head of the Department: Huseynova Guler Elchin

E-mail: e_dissertasiya@anl.az

 

General Information

 

The Department of “Electronic Dissertation Collections and its use” has been functioning as an independent unit since January, 2009. The dissertations defended from 1983 till present-day are preserved at the department. At present, there are 9583 dissertations at the department. 3962 of them are in Russian, 5621 in Azerbaijani.  Even online access to the virtual reading hall of the Electronic Dissertation Collections of the State Library of Russia is available.

Moreover, in order to render virtual service to the users, full electronic versions of dissertations are created and added to the local network. Now more than 5000 issues of full-text dissertations and author abstracts are in use in the electronic base.

Duties

• Preserves and maintains dissertations defended in Azerbaijan and renders a service to the users;

• Alongside with the local dissertations, the department renders  virtual service through the electronic base of the dissertations and author abstracts of the State Library of Russia;

• Creates the electronic base of the dissertations and  author abstracts held and preserved at the National Library's collections;

• Renders a service to the users through the electronic base of the full-text dissertations and author abstracts.

Main Activities

• Preservation, transfer of the dissertations defended in Azerbaijan to the electronic carirers and their use by the readers;

• Promotes the use of full-text electronic base of dissertations and  author abstracts of State Library of Russia;

• Develops information provision system;

• Learns and applies the progressive working experience of world libraries.