Wouldn't it be nice if we had an online compilation of all the theses and dissertations across all universities in the Philippines? This would make all the research effort in the Philippines accessible to all.
The problem nowadays is that you have all these universities and their respective libraries. The university library, however, limits access to only those bona fide students of the university and its alumni association. As such, you only have a disparate conglomeration of isolated silos of information.
Undergraduate and post-graduate students would be the first to tell you that this situation is frustrating. Imagine trying to research on your references and related literature only to be stymied by a lack of access to the works of other people from other universities. Or second-guessing oneself, never knowing if yours is an original research or one has already done it a long time ago.
Creating an online database eliminates these barriers. But then again, we ask: are our universities capable enough to imagine this dream into reality?
1 comment:
Hmmm, you might be on to something here, Pao. Maybe we should broach the idea to Sir Dom's students. ;]
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