Impact of Social Sciences – PhD theses – drawing attention to the often overlooked articles in open access repositories

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-28

Summary:

"Earlier this Open Access Week, university library staff throughout the UK celebrated #ThesisThursday, a day of focused attention on the less talked-about articles in open access repositories, PhD theses. Camilla Griffithsand Nancy Graham describe the work the LSE Library has led to digitise the theses of the School’s doctoral alumni, outlining the benefits of greater visibility, widespread indexing, and robust URLs, and also assuaging some of the more persistent fears around depositing theses in an open access repository, including implications for future publication and copyright concerns...."

Link:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/10/27/phd-theses-drawing-attention-to-the-often-overlooked-articles-in-open-access-repositories/

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oa.etds oa.new oa.green oa.oa_week oa.obstacles oa.copyright oa.embargoes oa.repositories

Date tagged:

10/28/2018, 10:46

Date published:

10/28/2018, 06:46