<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">Theses in open-access repository at Dublin City University have been downloaded 650,000 times<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​.</div></font></b><div><font color="#ff0000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div>Publishing PhD dissertations on a university’s website can help to improve its global reputation for research excellence, an international conference has heard.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">About half of the 1.36 million downloads of research papers from Dublin City University’s (DCU) open-access research portal so far are doctoral theses, explained Lisa Looney, its dean of graduate studies.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div></font><br></font><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><br><a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/publishing-phd-papers-improves-universitys-profile">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/publishing-phd-papers-improves-universitys-profile</a></div></div></div>