Welcome to the Harvard College Thesis Repository

Welcome to the Harvard College Thesis Repository, a project of Harvard College Free Culture! Here Harvard students make their senior theses accessible to the world, for the advancement of scholarship and the widening of open access to academic research.

Too many academics still permit publishers to restrict access to their work, needlessly limiting—cutting in half, or worse—readership, research impact, and research productivity. For more background, check out our op-ed article in The Harvard Crimson.

If you've written a thesis in Harvard College, you're invited to take a step toward open access right here, by uploading your thesis for the world to read. (If you're heading for an academic career, this can even be a purely selfish move—a first taste of the greater readership and greater impact that comes with open access.)

If you're interested in what the students at (ahem) the finest university in the world have to say at the culmination of their undergraduate careers, look around.

Otherwise check out our FAQ for more information.

All theses in the Harvard College Thesis Repository are freely avaliable under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which is the same license required by the world's leading PLoS Biology journal and the other journals of the Public Library of Science.

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The Harvard College Thesis Repository supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/thesis/repo/cgi/oai2