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Oh, for a second there I thought Stanford made all their dissertations available online. On second thought why doesn't universities do this and instead try to s
by Jun8 16y ago
Oh, for a second there I thought Stanford made all their dissertations available online. On second thought why doesn't universities do this and instead try to sell access? I've heard of people who put in a $20 bill in the copy of their dissertations in the university library and finding it intact years later.
- kleiba 16y agoAt least for C.S. I would guess that most people will happily send you a PDF copy of their theses (if they're not available from their websites already). Just send them a friendly email.
- Jun8 16y agoYou're right but contacting everyone like that is not very practical, in most cases you're nor event aware that a dissertation for the topic you're interested exists. IDEA BOLT: What if one creates a central website that offers free storage and search capabilities and ask people to upload their dissertations and theses? What do you think about that idea?
- RK 16y agohttp://arXiv.org http://arXiv.org
- Jun8 16y agoYep, but arXiv's content is very limited, e.g. very little EE research and economics, and nonexistent social sciences.
- RK 16y agoI don't know where to find the stats, but the number of categories has expanded greatly. I assume that trend will continue. The hard part is convincing people to upload their work. Even in physics the use of the arXiv is not uniform. In some areas, almost every published and unpublished paper is posted, while in other areas of physics hardly any papers are. For example, compare the category Quantum Physics with Space Physics.
- scott_s 16y agoMy university has free, online access to all Master's thesis and PhD dissertations: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/ http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/