[FC-discuss] Free Thesis Project Released Today

[Matthew Z]

I'm not sure I understand the scope of this project. Is it simply to provide
a medium that would encourage people to exhibit their thesis publicly?

I guess I'm trying to say that I don't understand what this is contesting at
all. Is it really anything more than systematizing (and centralizing)
something that people could have simply otherwise done on their own free
individual initiative? Am I missing something here? Just curious as to what
beyond a sort of pointless approbative function this would fill.

Matt

On 5/1/07, Elizabeth Stark <emstark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Very cool. This would be for all theses at your school? Would they be
> freely available? CC licensed?
>
> Are any of you coming to the FC conference? It would be great to talk
> about it then.
>
> On 4/30/07, Max Berger <maxberger85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Elizabeth,
> >
> > We're doing this at Reed currently. We've recently put together a
> > proposal digitize and net all theses, which can be found on our wiki (http://reed.freeculture.org/wiki/The_Proposal ).
> > Perhaps we can host some kind of discussion forum/seminar to share ideas
> > about these types of projects?
> >
> > Cool,
> >
> > Max
> >
> > On 4/27/07, Elizabeth Stark <estark at law.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >  Hi all,
> > >
> > > We released our Free Thesis Project site at Harvard today
> > > (http://hcs.harvard.edu/thesis ), a site where we encourage seniors to
> > > upload their theses and make them available under CC licenses. We also
> > >
> > > published a related op-ed on open access in the Harvard Crimson
> > > (http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=518548 ).
> > >
> > > While our site is currently only open to Harvard students, we're
> > > working on making a version of the software available for other
> > > schools to easily download and install. It's also OAI-complaint, so
> > > that other sites can easily index it. We're hoping to release the
> > > broader project at the National Free Culture Conference at Harvard on
> > > May 26.
> > >
> > > Let us know if you'd be interested in doing this at your own school.
> > >
> > > Elizabeth
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> >
> >
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