Finland

From European e-Theses

E-theses in Finland

1. Are electronic doctoral (PhD) theses being collected digitally and made accessible (publicly/open access) in the UK?

2. How many per year? What percentage of the total of e-theses?

3. Does anyone enrich (add value to) e-theses? For example,

· by identifying and resolving legal (e.g. copyright) or plagiarism issues

· preserving them

· linking e-theses with related material on which they are based (including data, statistics, multimedia, etc)

4. What kinds of interoperability are useful in your national context? For example-

· syntactic interoperability (e.g., simple / advanced cross-search, use of OAI-PMH harvesting protocol)

· semantic interoperability (e.g., access via disciplines / subjects, multilingual access)

5. Who ensures that the following issues are dealt with, so that e-theses are available?

· business models (financial sustainability - who pays?)

· organisational / roles and responsibilities (who does what?)

· legal (copyright / licences, liability, etc)

6. What European-level activities would be useful to add value to your national activities?

7. Please could you say a little about the educational / university processes around the production of PhD theses, and graduation for doctoral students, in the UK