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1. Jason Wilson writes:

   Sorry, but doesn’t everyone publish their thesis online nowadays?

   Mine’s on the digital thesis project, my blog and a videogames bibliography site for a start.

   I guess it’s more exciting if you’re a social media guru, or celbrity, or whatever.

   Posted: 20 01 2009 - 09:13 | Permanent link to this comment

2. Nick Caldwell writes:

   Well, I guess the headline is a bit of a yawner, but are we so jaded that we can’t commend interesting writers and scholars when they pass a major professional milestone?

   Anyway — maybe I should focus on the fact that the work has been published under a CC licence. I’d be interested in hearing from scholars who have run into difficulties with their host institution over licensing of their academic labour.

   Posted: 20 01 2009 - 13:01 | Permanent link to this comment

3. Wendy writes:

   i didn’t publish mine online anywhere. It wasn’t commanded or encouraged at my institution so I didn’t follow it up.
   perhaps i should….

   Posted: 20 01 2009 - 13:12 | Permanent link to this comment

4. Jason Wilson writes:

   @Nick Sigh I guess you’re right. Sorry to bring the snark.

   Posted: 20 01 2009 - 13:37 | Permanent link to this comment

5. Nick Caldwell writes:

   @Wendy:

   I’d be interested to see if your institutions placed any restrictions on such publication. Would it affect the publication of the thesis as a book?

   @Jason:

   No worries.

   Posted: 20 01 2009 - 13:58 | Permanent link to this comment

6. Wendy writes:

   hey Nick – yes I don’t know the answer to either of these questions with regard to my own insitution. I might have to do a little research.
   I guess though thesis and thesis-as-book should be considered two different works so perhaps not?
   hmmmmm…but then we are talking universities here so perhaps it wouldn’t that easy

   Posted: 20 01 2009 - 14:06 | Permanent link to this comment