Well finally! Here’s my thesis in full. After two years, I have finally taken the leap and made it available online, through the CQUniversity library. It’s also already been indexed by Trove at the National Library of Australia.
It was reading this article So you want people to read your thesis that made me take the leap. It reassured me about some concerns that I had about plagiarism and copyright. The three articles I wanted to publish from my research are all in various stages of writing up for publication, so I’m feeling OK making my work available to the world (it’s a good thing that I am already cringing when I read it back, right?).
Since being made available two days ago, it’s already had 11 visitors, 29 hits and 1 download! However, my fears weren’t been completely allayed. Within twenty four hours of my thesis being online, I received an email from a vanity publishing house. I thought the download may have been them. However, the constant restructures and changing of department names that we see in universities gives me a timestamp to suggest they got my details from the uni website.
So, if you have been tardy in doing this, I encourage you to take the leap and make your thesis available online. Continue reading
