category national library
significance, range fully working part of library; the library is taking part on several (international) projects, mainly in the area of meta-data and standardisation
policy initially only collecting online phd-thesis and postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) via a register form, now extended to online-publications by publishers
schedule (System for Multimedia Access - 1996), Online Theses Collection 1997, NEDLIB 1998, SpringerLINK 2000, Voluntary deposit of online publications 2001
other documents
Sammlung, Verzeichnung und Archivierung von Netzpublikationen (www.ddb.de/wir/netzpubl.htm)
short overview (www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/DDB.html)
Andreas Aschenbrenner (aola@ifs.tuwien.ac.at)