[Graduate-research-list] Your Thesis on the Web

Your Thesis on the Web Stirling's new Digital Repository for eTheses is now live at http://dspace.stir.ac.uk <http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/> and is also accessible via the Portal. This is an online repository for research theses awarded by the University of Stirling. 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, Stirling 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." The Repository ensures a global audience for your research, leading to greater impact and citation. Theses in the repository are indexed by OAISter (http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu <http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/> ) 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 (Communicator (2000) 33 (9): 1-8 <http://www.cgsnet.org/PublicationsPolicyRes/Communicatorpdfs/2000/Novem ber00.pdf> ). 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 http://www.library.stir.ac.uk/repository/ethesis.html <http://www.library.stir.ac.uk/repository/ethesis.html> . Alternatively, contact the Information Centre in the Library (e-mail infocentre(a)stir.ac.uk <mailto:infocentre@stir.ac.uk> ; telephone (01786) 467250; internal extension 7250).