A glass substrate strip is provided includes a large number of thin-glass segments, which have been positioned and fixed on an adherent foil. The thin-glass segments have been fixed on the adherent foil by one of their entire area, their entire edge region, or their edge regions. The glass substrate strip can include lateral transport bands or coding fields. For storage, glass substrate strip is plated in undulating fashion or is rolled up, and it serves not only for transport and storage but also as carrier strip in processing steps for the thin-glass segments.