{"id":785,"date":"2018-10-25T09:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/openaccess\/?p=785"},"modified":"2019-10-03T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:49:19","slug":"thesisthursday-open-access-week-imperial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/openaccess\/2018\/10\/25\/thesisthursday-open-access-week-imperial\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thesis Thursday &#8211; Open Access week @ Imperial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The #thesisthursday infographic was produced for Open Access Week 2018 to provide statistics of Imperial College theses collection in <a href=\"https:\/\/spiral.imperial.ac.uk\">Spiral<\/a>, the College\u2019s repository. The infographic includes the top ten most downloaded theses in Spiral (from Sept 2013-Sept 2018) including the total number of downloads.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first Thesis Thursday and was begun to commemorate the anniversary of\u00a0Professor Hawking\u2019s 1966 doctoral <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17863\/CAM.11283\">thesis<\/a> \u2018Properties of expanding universes\u2019 being made available by the University of Cambridge for the first time and which received so many downloads it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/oct\/23\/stephen-hawkings-expanding-universes-thesis-breaks-the-internet\">crashed their site.<\/a> (1,089,008 views so far).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-798 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/openaccess\/files\/2018\/10\/thesisthursday_33572062-1-536x1024.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can view the infographic <a href=\"https:\/\/create.piktochart.com\/output\/33572062-thesisthursday\">online<\/a>\u00a0and click on the hyperlinked theses which will take you to the Spiral record, where you will be able to download the thesis.<\/p>\n<p>The infographic also includes three graphs:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Theses numbers and their\u00a0status in Spiral &#8211; showing the percentages of open access theses and restricted access theses in Spiral.<\/li>\n<li>Thesis downloads in Spiral \u2013 showing the increase of downloads to Spiral over a 5 year period (from Sept 2013-Sept 2018).<\/li>\n<li>Thesis downloads in British Library\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ethos.bl.uk\/\">EThOS<\/a> (e-theses online service) \u2013 presents the projection of the number of thesis downloads from Spiral on the\u00a0EThOS\u00a0platform<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy inaugural Thesis Thursday!<\/p>\n<p>Most downloaded theses: <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/14622\">1<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/24944\">2<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/18344\">3<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/1333\">4<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/12585\">5<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/24805\">6<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/24919\">7<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/23836\">8<\/a>;<a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/18081\"> 9<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10044\/1\/18068\">10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spiral download statistics supplied by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irus.mimas.ac.uk\/\">IRUS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ethos.bl.uk\/\">British Library EThOS<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"en-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #thesisthursday infographic was produced for Open Access Week 2018 to provide statistics of Imperial College theses collection in Spiral, the College\u2019s repository. The infographic includes the top ten most downloaded theses in Spiral (from Sept 2013-Sept 2018) including the total number of downloads. 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