E-Theses-UK mailing list

This list has been started following the seminar 'A Future for UK Theses', held on 22nd January 2004. This seminar presented the current findings and results from the JISC-funded Electronic Theses project, as well as presenting views on e-theses from the British Library, the UK Council for Graduate Education, and on the broader research perspective involving e-prints. The benefits of e-theses, including discovery, access, delivery, preservation, storage, flexibility of content, effective administration etc, were all discussed to some degree.

Following on from the seminar, the E-Theses-UK discussion list has been created to do exactly that - encourage discussion of e-theses and how they can be implemented within institutions. The seminar revealed a thirst for information; the Electronic Theses and other JISC-funded FAIR projects on e-theses are investigating a wide range of the issues involved and will present their findings as they become known over time. The projects themselves will benefit from contributions and questions from those thinking of e-theses in both HE and FE. It was also clear from the seminar that there is a large amount of knowledge and opinions on e-theses already present in the community, and this list will seek to act as a focus for these as a means of stimulating the debate and discussion on e-theses within the UK.

A key part of any ongoing discussion on e-theses will be the involvement of all the parties concerned with theses: students, academics, librarians, registrars etc. All play a part and so all with hold a view. Please use this list as a means to express those views so that e-theses development can take place to suit the needs of all concerned.

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