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• After examining and approving a thesis/dissertation, the supervisor should email the final edited copy in pdf to the Library at [email protected]
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According to the Procedures for Master’s and Doctoral Degrees , supporting the Unisa Policy for Masters and Doctoral Degrees , the Library is not authorised to remove/update/replace your thesis/dissertation that was submitted by your supervisor once it has been uploaded to the Unisa Institutional Repository. Requests for removal should be submitted to the Vice Principal: Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation or his or her delegated nominee.  For more information, see the extractions from the Procedures below.

Copyright and Intellectual Property (Procedures for Masters’ and Doctoral Degrees Chapter 5.51-5.53) Although the copyright of Unisa theses and dissertations is vested with the student, the intellectual property rights belong to the University. After completion, the student grants the non-exclusive distribution rights to the University. In exceptional circumstances, a candidate may apply to be exempted from granting this copyright license. Such an application must be fully substantiated.

• Embargoes (Procedures for Masters’ and Doctoral Degrees Chapter 5.54-5.55) An embargo of 24 months may apply to theses and dissertations and students may apply for renewal of embargoes. Renewal of embargo requests should be submitted to the Vice-Principal: Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation or his or her nominee.
• Replacement of Archived Copies According to the Procedures for Masters’ and Doctoral Degrees (Chapter 8: Archiving) no amendments will be allowed to the final examined and accepted copy that was submitted by the supervisor and archived in the Unisa Institutional Repository.

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The impact of electronic theses and dissertations: a study of the institutional repository of a university in South Africa

• Siviwe Bangani   ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-8123 1  

Scientometrics volume  115 ,  pages 131–151 ( 2018 ) Cite this article

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This paper investigates the academic and societal impacts of the engineering electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at the North-West University. The citation counts obtained through Google Scholar (GS) and the altmetrics data obtained from Dspace on the North-West University institutional repository are used to determine these impacts. Further, the conversion rates of ETDs from an educational output into an academic research output are determined using data from GS and the North-West University institutional repository. The results show that the 612 theses and dissertations attracted 931 citations which translates to 1.52 citations per thesis on average. A total of 41.2% theses and dissertations received at least one citation and the conversion rate into academic research output was 16.8%. The conversion rates in the last 3 years that are part of this research is 27.3% which suggests an improvement. An average of 323 PDF views were received per thesis. The citation and PDF views data show that the Engineering ETDs have commendable academic and societal impacts. Nonetheless, the academic impacts show scant correlation with the societal impacts although some positive trends are noticeable when looking at the origin of PDF views and citations by country.

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A national Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) portal has been developed in South Africa to provide access to a country-specific collection of ETDs and, more importantly, to coordinate, manage, monitor and support the development of ETD programmes at the various universities. This portal required the development of a custom software solution, using a multi-tiered simple architecture of complex components. Arguably this tiered architecture, tightly integrated into a commonly-used application/operating system framework, is a good approach to develop such central repository architectures to interconnect into the larger repository ecosystems of NDLTD and similar organisations.

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Lighton Phiri , Lawrence Webley, Tatenda Chipeperekwa and Hussein Suleman

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Lawrence Webley, Tatenda Chipeperekwa and Hussein Suleman (2011), Creating a National Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Portal in South Africa, to appear in Proceedings of ETD 2011, Cape Town, South Africa, 13-15 September 2011.

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DigiResearch is the VUT electronic open access archive. Its purpose is to collect, distribute and preserve the research performed by the VUT Research community. Click on the link below if you want to view those theses and dissertations. 

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This section contains a list of theses and dissertations written by Masters and Doctoral student at the Faculty of Applied and Computer Sciences. Click on the link below to view.

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This is a national portal of  electronic theses and dissertations  (ETD) in South Africa.

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format.

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