Unlocking Thesis Data - Stephen Grace, University of East London, at Repository Fringe 2015

1. Unlocking Thesis Data
Stephen Grace
orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-2671
Repository Fringe, Edinburgh, 4 August 2015

2. Impact and Benefits
»For students: bridge to norms of being a career
researcher, visibility and citations
»For funders: value for money, impact reporting
»For institutions: profile of doctoral research
»For researchers: availability of valuable research content,
replication, building on previous research, repurposing
data/software, cross-discipline
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3. Survey
Http://dx.doi.org/10.15123/PUB.4274

4. Case studies
• University of East
London
• University of
Southampton
• London School of
Economics and Political
Science
• University of the Arts
London
• University of Bristol
• University of Leicester
• 10.15123/PUB.4301
• 10.15123/PUB.4302
• 10.15123/PUB.4303
• 10.15123/PUB.4304
• 10.15123/PUB.4305
• 10.15123/PUB.4306

5. Test creation of thesis DOIs
• University of East London
• 10.15123/PUB.3929
• University of Southampton
10.5258/SOTON/374711
• University of Glasgow
• 10.5525/gla.thesis.6423

6. Questions and feedback
• What systems would you use, and can
they create/use persistent identifiers?
• Guidance on what could/should/must be
deposited?
• One record or more?
• Opportunities for efficiencies?

7. Thank you
All outputs at
http://dx.doi.org/10.15123/PROJECT.15
Stephen Grace, UTD Project Manager
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-2671
With thanks to Jisc for funding UTD, and to my
project team colleagues Michael Whitton, Sara
Gould and Rachael Kotarski
Email graces5@lsbu.ac.uk
Blog at unlockingthesisdata.wordpress.com