<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I would worry about this <br><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Peter Burnhill<br>Director, EDINA<br>University of Edinburgh<br><br>Desk: <a href="tel:+44%20(0)%20131%20650%203301" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">+44 (0) 131 650 3301</a><br>Text: <a href="tel:+44%20(0)%207740%20763119" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">+44 (0) 7740 763119</a></span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 28px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div><br>On 6 Aug 2015, at 12:36 pm, Danny Kingsley <<a href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Hello all,<br>
<br>
One of our PhD students has received an offer to upload their thesis
to something called the 'Journals Consortium Archive'
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://journalsconsortium.org/">http://journalsconsortium.org/</a><br>
<br>
I have never heard of them, the 'About us' tab is a file not found
and there is no information yet about Australia or the UK. This
raises some suspicions (to say the least).<br>
<br>
But before I respond with a loud warning to the student I would like
to check that this is not some new start up that is legitimate.
Please let me know if you have had a positive experience with these
people.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Danny<br>
<br>
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INTRODUCING ARCHIVE OF POSTGRADUATE DISSERTATIONS </p>
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Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top:
15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;"> Dear
Dr. XXXX, </p>
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida
Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top:
15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;"> We
are glad to introduce to you the Journals Consortium Archive of<br>
Postgraduate Dissertations [1]. </p>
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Postgraduate thesis/dissertations are resources of immense
research<br>
value across academic disciplines. Unfortunately, most<br>
thesis/dissertations tend to be restricted to university libraries
and<br>
archives. </p>
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Journals Consortium Postgraduate Archive<br>
<a href="http://pgd.journalsconsortium.org/" rel="noreferrer">http://pgd.journalsconsortium.org/</a>
[1] provides a new and exciting way<br>
of digitally archiving postgraduate thesis/dissertations. This
enables<br>
postgraduate students to archive their thesis/dissertations by
uploading<br>
them to the Journals Consortium Postgraduate Archive platform.
This not<br>
only extend these thesis/dissertations work from university
libraries to<br>
the global academic community, but also gives them a global
audience and<br>
better chances for these thesis/dissertations to be cited by other<br>
researchers. </p>
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Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top:
15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;"> Using
the Open Access model, these thesis /dissertations will be freely<br>
available to all researchers by simply visiting the Journals
Consortium<br>
Postgraduate Archive website [1]. </p>
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Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top:
15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;">
Please inform your colleagues and students of this archive and
encourage<br>
them to submit their postgraduate theses/dissertations. </p>
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Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top:
15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;"> Yours
sincerely, </p>
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15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;">
Postgraduate Dissertations Department </p>
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Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top:
15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;">
Journals Consortium </p>
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Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top:
15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;"> <a href="mailto:dissertations@journalsconsortium.org">dissertations@journalsconsortium.org</a>
</p>
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Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top:
15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#2b2e2f;"> <a href="http://journalsconsortium.org/" rel="noreferrer">http://journalsconsortium.org/</a>
[2] </p>
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Links:<br>
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[1]<br>
<a href="http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=31&mailid=22" rel="noreferrer">http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=31&mailid=22</a><br>
[2]<br>
<a href="http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=13&mailid=22" rel="noreferrer">http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=13&mailid=22</a><br>
[3]<br>
<a href="http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=14&mailid=22" rel="noreferrer">http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=14&mailid=22</a><br>
[4]<br>
<a href="http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=15&mailid=22" rel="noreferrer">http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=15&mailid=22</a><br>
[5]<br>
<a href="http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=16&mailid=22" rel="noreferrer">http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=16&mailid=22</a><br>
[6]<br>
<a href="http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=user&task=out&mailid=22&key=KIJRuBvw8UYM9L" rel="noreferrer">http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=user&task=out&mailid=22&key=KIJRuBvw8UYM9L</a>
</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head of Scholarly Communications
Cambridge University Library
West Road, Cambridge CB39DR
P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437
M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564
E: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a>
T: @dannykay68
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939</pre>
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