Dr.in - Digitalisierung von Dissertationen der ersten Absolventinnen der Universität Innsbruck

The first dissertations at the University of Innsbruck written by women are unique due to the lack of legal deposit at the beginning of the 20th century. Furthermore, these works are sometimes very fragile documents consisting of, for example, loose leaves or very thin paper; they are also increasingly demanded by library users. This situation provided good reason to dedicate a project to the online preservation of this stock at the University and Regional Library of Tyrol, and through this project, to remember the first female doctoral candidates. The main objective of the project work was to digitize dissertations written by female students before 1938 at the University of Innsbruck as widely as possible and to prepare the digital facsimiles for the online presentation in the institution’s digital library. This book chapter provides an introductory overview of the early beginnings women studying at the University of Innsbruck and then reports on key data and findings of the project.