After decades of relegating grad-school dissertations to dusty shelves on the top floors of libraries, Stanford’s believed to be the first school in the nation to put dissertations in a digital repository, the Chron is reporting.
As a hopefully-future grad student, this is fabulous news. Dissertations are the culmination of years of work and typically only publish a few copies that collect dust in libraries for the rest of eternity. It’s kind of disheartening to view it that way. They’re great resources for others doing highly specialized research as well, so they’ll hopefully see more use online as well. Plus, there’s the whole saving lots-of-paper thing. We really, really like that, too.
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quite interesting article. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did you guys learn that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.