In reply to the link you dropped on my blog, which led me here, this is my initial response: http://clioandme.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/old-german-handwriting/#comment-2403

Methinks you are making institutional assumptions that are not universally valid, not even in your country. I already comment on how American dissertations are stored in the link above. Does the so-called Internet Archive enjoy the universality that your comment implies it must? And how did you find my post and scan? Just randomly? Or did my sharing the link with H-German, an established academic list of the old-school variety, lead you there? Finally, while clearly you are thinking like an archivist, that does not mean that all historians must think in the same fashion. Indeed, most of us don't blog, and fewer of us tweet. And those of us who blog have a variety of ideas about our blog's purpose, though I think a broader consensus might exist on what civil discourse looks like.  http://www.archive.org/details/DeutscheFibel  Thank you for doing that, Ladislaus. I have no idea how you accomplished the feat, but cool. And as you noticed, it is public domain, and it wasn't hard to remove that layer of text where I added my information, moving it to the archive page instead. (As I said in a new comment on my own blog today, I can't really make sense of that archive. But I'm glad you could.)

What about MA and PhD theses? The Internet Archive does not look at all convincing to me for that kind of thing. It seems like it is more concerned with archiving the internet and offering a random sampling of public domain texts. Do you know of any other places?