Open Thesis

= making student theses available via the internet ("a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents")

URL = http://www.openthesis.org/

Description

Flosse-Posse:

"With the open access we often focus mainly to the open access journals. This is of course important, however, I think it is also very important to bring Master and Ph.D. thesis online. The practice also carries pedagogical value in University teaching: it is very different to write your thesis exclusively for your professor, than when knowing that it will be out there for people to read and comment.

There are many open source tool to publish and maintain this kind of online libraries, but it looks that the de facto open source standard tool is the DSpace." (http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=open-thesis-give-me-more-scientific-thinking-and-weeds-of-philosophy)

Example

"The Tampere University Press is publishing all Master thesis and Ph.D. dissertations online as PDF files if the writer gives a permission to do it. I assume most people do." (http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=open-thesis-give-me-more-scientific-thinking-and-weeds-of-philosophy)

Discussion

Flosse-Posse:

"I wonder could there be some open APIs to make the open theses even more easily accessible and movable from one place to another? Would it be possible to mash-up the register in any website so that one could seamlessly search these databases from a single search? What about the Google Scholar or Science Commons?" (http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=open-thesis-give-me-more-scientific-thinking-and-weeds-of-philosophy)