User:Minihaa/Incorporation of doctoral theses

Why do the heavy lifting yourself? Simply incorporate material that is readily available into Wikipedia. The literature overview section of PhD theses are in some cases very usable and typically well referenced (even though some drawbacks exist). Only the literature overview of a PhD thesis is suited as it is backed up by peer-reviewed literature.

Where to find

Numerous depositories exist with PhD theses under a free licence, for example:

• https://ora.ox.ac.uk/
• https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Farchiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de%2Fvolltextserver+creative+commons+thesis

Disadvantages

Using text from PhD theses may have potential drawbacks:

• The text might be very technical, a introduction might have to be written or the text might not be suited at all.