An open thesis, also known as an open dissertation, is a thesis that is freely available for members of the public to access upon publication, and often also during the planning and writing process. The decision to write an open thesis is made by the author, who will usually explain their rationale for creating an open thesis as part of the final published work or while developing it. Writing an open thesis is a process with many decision points regarding where and when to share information openly - from the planning stage, through research and writing, the defense/ voce viva and ultimate publication.[1] Open theses are usually created and located in digital and multimodal formats.[2]
Open theses fall into two categories:
Those that are available under an open license. Many in this category are also drafted openly, for example they are discussed in public well before submission by way of open notebook science, open data or other elements of open research and open scholarship.
Those that are freely available as open access publications, but not necessarily under an open license.
^Gogia, Laura (2016-12-20). "Dissertating in the Open (Visual Article Series)". Messy Thinking. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
^Kuhn, Virginia; Finger, Anke (2021). Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. p. 2. ISBN 9781800641006.
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