In yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education, Florence Olsen reports that ProQuest has launched a web interface, licensed from bepress, for submitting theses and dissertations to the ProQuest UMI repository. The interface includes a method for thesis supervisors to authenticate the submission. Future versions of the software will allow students to post drafts accessible only to their thesis committee, and will structure the critiques and revisions in much the same way that peer-review software structures the editing process at scholarly journals.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/11/2003 10:55:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
