I was attending my son's graduation ceremony at Bournemouth University on Friday. While waiting for his turn, the title of a graduating student's PhD thesis was read out. It caught my attention (it was about TV production on Dr Who) and so i slipped put my iPhone, googled the student's surname, a word from the title and the name of the university and found the thesis available in the Bournemouth Institutional Repository (first result). I was able to download and start skimreading the PDF before the student had returned to his seat .
It was a genuinely exciting experience - it felt like I had arrived in the future! This is a repository use case that I had never thought of, and everything just worked. Congratulations to Bournemouth's repository team on the hard work they have put in to making the experience join up.
Also, congrats to Andrew Ireland on a really interesting thesis!
http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/20444/
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Les Carr
PS Universities really should consider letting graduation audiences see some of the really impressive work that their students have done. An onstage projection of a poster from their final dissertation while they walk across the stage?
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