Brazil has had a National Consortium of ETDs for most 15 years. Currently, the Consortium Union catalogue hosts over 370K metadata records. When the Consortium was established, two institutions had had ETD programs for a year and supported the deployment of the Consortium. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, in rio de Janeiro, and Universidade de São Paulo, in São Paulo, are these institutions. They had different backgrounds in digital publishing and also followed different tracks after working together to create consortium. This paper addresses the experience of the two institutions. It begins by giving a brief description of each and then tells the histories of the ETD programs. It continues by presenting the current status of the programs and their follow-ons. Some data related to the publishing of ETDs and also the accesses to the works are presented. The two institutions have solid ETD programs and also strong and varied production of other digital contents.