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Hello All We think this an interesting idea. It will mainly involve changes in workflow and the odd extra field. It may also shift the responsibility for starting a record to the student or supervisor, (currently the graduate school office initiate the upload). This fits with our aim to raise research student awareness of self-archiving, Open Access, copyright etc. Helen Repository Manager etc, UCLan Sent from my iPad > On 10 Dec 2014, at 11:41, Field A.N. <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi Sue > > I can't think of any of our customers that do this, but a post to the EPrints User Group ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/eprints-uk-user-group ) might be another community of people to ask about this. > > I would say, on a technical level, that there are no real hurdles to this. In fact, with EPrints' versioning capabilities, you could preserve both the mid-way state and the final thesis as separate linked records in your repository. > > -- > Adam Field > Business Relationship and Community Manager > EPrints Services > > > >> On 10 Dec 2014, at 10:58, Sue Turner wrote: >> >> I have received a proposal to add a record to the University's research repository for each doctoral theses currently in progress. The University of Gloucestershire Research Repository uses Eprints. My question is, does any other HEI promote awareness of doctoral theses in progress, either in the manner described above or using another approach? (I am aware that many HEIs record their doctoral supervisees on academic staff profiles via the HEI's web site and some of these entries give a brief indication of the research topic.) Is anyone aware of a reason not to disseminate information about theses in progess? >> >> The Research Repository record would contain a summary of the research at a mid-way point. On completetion of the doctoral programme and assuming the candidate is awarded a doctorate, this record would be updated/replaced by the standard record with full text digital thesis uploaded (subject to the usual FOIA exceptions). In the event that a candidate fails to complete their doctorate, the interim record would be removed as it would no longer be 'in progress'. >> >> >> I'd welcome any information you are able to share, either through the list or directly to my email is [log in to unmask] >> >> Thanks in anticipation, >> Sue Turner