You are students at level of Diploma Specialist & Expert (S&E), Technician (Tech), Bachelor (Bsc), Master (Msc), Master by Research (MPhil), Philosophy Doctor (Ph.D), Philosophy Doctor (Ph.D) by Publication (6) or Philosophy Doctor (Ph.D) by Research (TBP), and you are about to write your final theses or you have already written them?. You need documentation in thesis format or you want to protect your theses from any form of plagiarism, and you would like your research work to be cited in the scientific community and be exploited by other work?, the ISTN gives you this opportunity.

By obtaining an ISTN; students, universities and institutes will be able to take the necessary steps to ensure that their theses is widely known and to maximize its spread potential. If you are a student it is in your interest to use ISTN as it is likely to help you to publish and protect thesis. People will assume that the thesis do not exist, and even if they do know they exist, they may consider it is too much bother to handle them since they will need to do so using lengthy manual ordering processes. If you have finished a thesis that you think can be successfully published in other countries as well as your own or to other peoples, then you should apply the ISTN website or ISTN Generator app to generate an ISTN for you thesis.

The benefits of ISTN include:

• The ISTN allows students to enter the scientific community by making their efforts become references.
• Possibility of citations as references; In a citation to an thesis that is not available online. In a citation to an thesis that is not available online in full text, only as an abstract. In a citation to an thesis available online only in machine-translated form. In a citation to an thesis that is not (or due to a dead link, no longer) available online at all.
• The ISTN is a unique international identifier for thesis publications; assigning a number replaces the handling of long bibliographic descriptive records, thereby saving time and staff costs and reducing copying errors.
• Correct use of the ISTN allows different product forms of a thesis, whether printed or digital, to be clearly differentiated, ensuring that reader receive the version that they require.
• The ISTN facilitates compilation and updating of thesis bibliographic databases, such as catalogues of books-in-print. Information on available thesis can be found easily.
• Ordering and distribution of thesis is mainly executed by ISTN; this is a fast and efficient method.
• The ISTN is machine-readable in the form of a bar code. This is fast and avoids mistakes.
• Improve Thesis Collections Management; Librarians and library systems can easily and accurately collocate thesis automatically, even when they have different titles, when an ISTN is included in the catalogue record.
• Many publishing and supply chain systems of universities and institutes are based on ISTN.
• The accumulation of thesis data is done by the ISTN. This enables the varying forms and editions of publications to be monitored, as well as enabling comparisons between different fields and even different universities and institutes.
• Improve Worldwide Discoverability of Thesis.
• The ISTN can help in verifying the existence and reliability of the thesis and procuring a copy to verify the content.
• ISTNs are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature.
• The possibility of making ISTN as a factor in evaluating and comparing scientific production.