Why upload your thesis on Iskwiki

• Theses uploaded on iskwiki have greater accessibility and potentially wider audience than those just kept in cabinets.
• Knowledge building is a cumulative, iterative process. Scholars can build on what's already been done on a topic, and making a thesis available on iskwiki supports that process.
• greater citation impact
• If you're supported by public funds (say, your tuition is subsidized by taxes), shouldn't at least part of your work be publicly available?
• Your thesis can be part of baseline information on research activities in your department or college.

Readings

• DSpace@MIT
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society (2008) "Harvard goes Open Access" (13 Feb 2008). See also this
• "Theses For All." Harvard Crimson, 10 April 2008. See also Harvard Thesis Repository
• Theses Canada
• Scott Jaschik (2012) "Dissing the Dissertation." Inside Higher Ed

See Also

• Licensing theses under the Creative Commons