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License

Original |Wikiprojects page had this at the top: The content of this page is available under a CC0/Public Domain Waver. Not sure if we still need that? I think we can just use the Wikipedia standard CC-BY-SA licence?

Lead

I've added the distinction between free-to-access and openly licensed theses. Does this need elaboration? Can we link to other pages on Wikipedia (open science, etc.)?

Open thesis repositories

I've added this section. I've tried to only include repositories/ databases that appear to favour openly licensed theses (so I left out EBSCO and ProQuest). However, this is not always made explicit in the database description. Also, there may be more such repositories - I may have only scratched the surface so far...

Theses being drafted in the open

The only ones that I could verify as being current are the top two! The others had dead links, although I found most of the individuals on Twitter/ LinkedIn. I could not find any evidence of any of them having completed their theses yet though.

Theses that have been drafted in the open

This section needs updating - I haven't checked all the links yet. There are more we could add - and others. Will need an intro text explaining that different scholars used different approaches - some published their actual thesis content as they went along, while others blogged about the process. Again, we might need to distinguish between whether people used open licenses or not? AND then adding in about the open defence events like the one Laura did where someone in the room did live tweeting, Bonnie's was live on YouTube (looking to find out if there is a recording of it?)
 * Chrissi Nerantzi
 * Bonnie Stewart
 * Laura Gogia

Defended theses available under an open license

Should this section be deleted, as it is covered by the new section on open thesis repositories?

Weblinks

We can probably add more links... not sure where to put this but it's a site at UBC - Public Scholars Network where all the PhD scholars are listed and links to a page that describes their research. Not an open thesis but a form of open and public scholarship. https://www.grad.ubc.ca/psi/profiles

References

Definitely need more original sources here - sources that talk about open theses, rather than just links to open theses. (but having open repository links is also good IMHO) e.g. Theses Canada https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/theses/Pages/theses-canada.aspx

Ruth O&#39;Grady (talk) 16:05, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Open Scholarship?
Wondering if open/public scholarship is a potential subtopic e.g. UBC's Public Scholars Initiative Open Research at UBC - https://open.ubc.ca/research/ Richelieu5851 (talk) 16:07, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Our Found Research
Here is our collection

Salmon, N. M. (n.d.). UnDissertating: Re-envisioning Participation in 19th-Century Studies [Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - Madison]. Retrieved 17 June 2021, from http://www.proquest.com/docview/2365440087/abstract/8FA2A6226CE34BA5PQ/1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruth O'Grady (talk • contribs) 19:30, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Check for relevant sources here: https://jime.open.ac.uk/collections/special/doctoral-research-learning-in-an-open-world/