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Hi,
In Brazil we do have this sort of approach. Capes, which is an organization
from the Ministry of Education for the national Post-Graduate policy, has a
mandate for every Master dissertation and Doctorate thesis to be deposited
in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and on the
student's university repository.
In my own university, if the student does not make the deposit, her/his
certificate is not issued. There are reactions, of course, but mandates have
worked well and now we have thousands of theses and dissertations available
online on the Internet.
It is important to notice that the Master course in Brasil is a sort of a
mini-doctorate, involving a resonable research work and lasting for two
years.
Regards,
Sely
Citando Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:39 AM, James Tuttle <james_tuttle_at_ncsu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > > The solution is very simple:
> > >
> > > (1) Mandate deposit of all Theses.
> > >
> > > (2) But allow the option of making the deposit Closed Access (only the
> > > metadata are visible web-wide -- the full-text is accessible only to
> > the
> > > author and repository administrators).
> >
> > This is very similar to our approach. The Graduate College requires
> > electronic deposition of all thesis and dissertations. Students have
> > the option of requesting an embargo period of up to 2 years. Rarely,
> > papers may be withheld or withdrawn completely through a request to the
> > Graduate College. Otherwise, all papers are submitted to the ETD
> > repository in the Libraries.
> >
>
> Bravo! (Now all NCSU need do to optimize their admirable policy for theses
> is to apply it also to all NCSU research article output -- and to add
> the "Email
> Eprint
> Request<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html>
> "
> Button to the NCSU Institutional
> Repository<http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=search&query=NCSU&subm
> it=Search>
> !
> EPrints<https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notices/publicnotices.php?notice=90
> 2>invented
> it, but Eloy Rodrigues kindly created one for
> DSpace <http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//RequestCopy> too.
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
Received on Wed Nov 26 2008 - 23:37:40 GMT