Abstracts:

The report describes the digital library of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) supported by the RFBR. The digital library of ETDs should contain: (1) the OPAC functioning now in the RSL and extending by retroconversion of the card catalogue, (2) tables of contents, (3) fulltext database of theses and dissertations prepared in Russia (and partly in USSR) that will be located in Internet and in intranet depending on conditions of agreements with authors, (4) bibliographic citations, (5) authority data representing names of authors (personal names). This digital library should be one of digital collections in the RSL Digital Library in hole with the common access to the data.