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(US) Scholars fume as PhD theses sold as e-books on Amazon – Times Higher Education (Jack Grove | January 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in on January 22, 2021
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The Linked Original Item was Posted On January 11, 2021

A stamp of the word "MISCONDUCT"

Thousands of PhD dissertations by Durham University available on Kindle services following mass scraping of online repository

Scholars have condemned “unlawful” attempts to sell their PhD theses without permission on Amazon’s Kindle service.

This sickening situation has happened to a colleague of a member of the AHRECS team.

The outcry follows the discovery by academics who took their doctoral studies at Durham University that their PhD dissertations had been scraped from the university’s online thesis repository, where they are freely available, and were being sold as individual titles for as much as £9.99.

Around 2,000 PhD theses – many of which appeared under the authorship of “Durham Philosophy” – had been made available as Kindle e-books, according to Sarah Hughes, vice-chancellor’s research fellow in human geography at Northumbria University.

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