Discussion document on best practice for issues around theses publishing
Traditionally, theses for higher degrees were published by universities in hard copy only. Now increasingly, these are also archived and may be made freely available via university repositories. They may or may not have associated licenses such as those from Creative Commons which also allow reuse.
Conclusion
- Journals
• Should have clear policies about work derived from theses and should usually consider them as similar to preprints
• Should provide clear instructions on how to cite work derived from theses
- Authors
• Should inform journals about any work contained in a thesis that form the basis of a submitted manuscript – ie provide a citation to the thesis
• Should be aware of their institutions’ polices on publication and availability of theses
From COPE Committee on Publication Ethics
Usually thesis is a collection of published work. However we need to address to the plagiarism.
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