Article: Web site provides Harvard theses online

Bita Assad
University Wire
04-07-2008
(Harvard Crimson) (UWIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- As the final round of Harvard University seniors turn in their theses, a fledgling open-access initiative is encouraging students to make their work accessible to the world.

The Free Thesis Project, a Web site run by Harvard College Free Culture, currently allows seniors to upload their theses to an online repository. But while the Web site was launched in April 2007, only 20 students so far have submitted their theses for free and open access.

The initiative targeting senior thesis writers parallels a Feb. 12 decision by the University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to adopt an open-access requirement -- the ...

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