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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">’s new Digital Repository for eTheses is now live at <A
href="http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/">http://dspace.stir.ac.uk</A> and is also
accessible via the Portal. <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">This is an
online repository for research theses awarded by the University of
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">For currently-registered
PhD and research Masters students participation is optional, but we are
confident that electronic deposit of research theses will soon be the norm. In
common with most other Scottish Universities, </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Stirling</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> is a signatory to the Scottish Declaration of Open
Access, by which it has undertaken to “encourage, and where practical mandate,
the deposit of PhD theses in an institutional repository.”
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Repository ensures a
global audience for your research, leading to greater impact and citation.
Theses in the repository are indexed by OAISter (</FONT><A
href="http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman">) and are also found by search engines such as Google and
Yahoo. They are given a short permanent url, and are stored on a reliable
academic website. The student experience elsewhere is that it promotes their
research, expands their network of research colleagues, and even helps them
locate a job (</FONT><A
href="http://www.cgsnet.org/PublicationsPolicyRes/Communicatorpdfs/2000/November00.pdf"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Communicator (2000) 33 (9): 1-8</FONT></A><FONT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Depositing your thesis is
easy, and can be done entirely online. Once you have the final, corrected
version, and paper copies have been submitted to Registry, follow the
instructions at </FONT><A
href="http://www.library.stir.ac.uk/repository/ethesis.html"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">http://www.library.stir.ac.uk/repository/ethesis.html</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> . Alternatively, contact the Information Centre in the
Library (e-mail </FONT><A href="mailto:infocentre@stir.ac.uk"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">infocentre@stir.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman">; telephone (01786) 467250; internal extension
7250).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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