Louise Perry, Formulating 130,000 theses for your perusal, The Australian, September 22, 2004. Excerpt: "An online directory of all research theses and dissertations from Australian universities will soon be available to the world. After pushing for the improved database for more than 15 years, the patience of postgraduate students and their supervisors has been rewarded: the federal Government has announced $500,000 for the job. The new database will use the Australian Digital Theses Program, which is already in place but only has links to about 2600 theses in digital form. The new version will have records of up to 130,000 theses and dissertations - some will be in digital form and those that are not will be linked to an order form where the database user can order a copy of the research. Anyone with access to the internet will be able to use the database."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/25/2004 09:35:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
