Importance of Doctoral Theses and its Access: a Literature Analysis

Vijayakumar, J. K. and Vijayakumar, Manju Importance of Doctoral Theses and its Access: a Literature Analysis. The Grey Journal, 2007, vol. 3, n. 2, pp. 67-75. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Academic research is quantitatively and qualitatively considered as the foundation for furthering the future investigation in any field. At the same time, the results of doctoral research is not disseminated in public domain due to various reasons of policies such as copy right, IPR, time lag, publication procedures etc. Information Communication Technologies playing a major role in the drastic change of academic scholarship during the last decade, especially in creation, access and dissemination of information. Web publishing makes the Universities to alter and strengthen the process of creation and communication of academic research through reconsidering the ways and practices in scholarly publishing and archiving practices. We are fortunate that Universities and policy makers already started taking advantages of web publishing in this important area of scholarly communication.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	doctoral theses
Subjects:	D. Libraries as physical collections.
Depositing user:	Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar
Date deposited:	19 Jan 2010
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14018

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