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Supporting the Researcher:
The benefits of access to
a thesis in the National Archive
of Greek PhD Theses
Open access to scientific knowledge is central to the European Digital Agenda 2020. It
is also a dominant trend in the international scientific community and a key element
of development in accordance with national and European policies for scientific and
cultural knowledge and production.
It is for this reason we have developed an infrastructure to collect, document
and disseminate reliable scientific and cultural content, both for the national and
international scientific communities. Playing a basic role in this is the National
Archive of Greek PhD Theses.
The basic principles behind the dissemination of content policy is the protection and
reinforcing of open access in research, knowledge and production, while supporting
new researchers in their attempts to make their work known and accessible to the
Greek and international scientific community, as well as the general public.
As well as being a portal for showcasing the outcomes of original scientific research,
the repository is also a portal for exploitation and reuse of content. For the researcher
who deposits their thesis in the National Archive of Greek PhD Theses, long-term
preservation and dissemination of their workis guaranteed increasing the chances
of citations and international recognition. Once deposited, Greek theses are then
disseminated through the European portal DART, which gives open access to more
than 400,000 PhD theses.
At the same time, these procedures ensure the transparency of research, while
contributing to the prevention of plagiarism.
Detailed information as to how to submit a thesis can be found online at the National
Archive of PhD Theses site.
