The most downloaded items from Massey Research Online during October are predominantly masters theses.

Top honour goes to Jingjing Jiang for her 2008 masters thesis, Evaluation of the potential of ecotourism to contribute to local sustainable development : a case study of Tengtou Village, China, with nearly 600 downloads just for the month of October.

The only doctoral thesis to make the top five items this month belongs to Matthew Aladesaye, also 2008, Application of predictive maintenance to industry including Cepstrum analysis of a gearbox, with 471 downloads. This is one of the theses recently digitised due to the Doctoral Theses Digitisation Project currently underway.

While theses are the most downloaded items due to the comparatively high number of theses in the repository, we do accept journal articles and conference papers. If you would like to submit a paper, please email the library on library@massey.ac.nz or view more information on submitting articles.

We'll continue to give you updates each month of the most popular items in Massey Research Online.

October's top five downloads are:

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The use of Massey's older doctoral theses has shot up as the Library works towards making them publicly available online. All Massey doctoral theses going back 50 years are being digitised and added to Massey Research Online. So far about 300 out of the 1300 theses are online and are already being very well used.

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Graduation is a good time to remind you that Massey theses are available through the Library for borrowing and/or viewing online. You can search for them in the classic Library Catalogue or Encore just as you would for regular books - under author, title or keyword. To find a thesis now, just add keywords from the title, author or subject to this search. If you need help with finding theses, please contact us.

Recent Massey theses are available online, and we are currently in the process of digitising all PhD theses. We'll let you know when this project is completed.

Massey Research Online also gives access to online theses, as well as other work published by Massey staff and students.

Finding Theses helps with tracking down theses from other universities, both in New Zealand and overseas.

Updated lists of Māori theses held by the Library are now available via the Services for Māori page on the Library’s website. Unlike previous years, there are now two lists, with one consisting of Doctoral theses and the other containing details of Honours and Masters theses. The entry for each thesis contains information about library holdings, including where appropriate a link to the online version in the Library’s repository Massey Research Online. The lists will be updated at regular intervals throughout the year.

Massey Research Online (MRO) is the University’s Institutional Repository of digital copies of published research such as theses, journal articles, conference papers, reports and other peer-reviewed documents. All items in the repository are “full-text” and are publicly available – that is, accessible to all Internet users. An open repository like MRO affords a major opportunity to place academic work in the public domain and to draw attention to it beyond the conventional commercial channels. It may be necessary for you to have a copy of the final version of the article as it was sent to the editor for publication – this is known as the Accepted Manuscript and all authors of articles should get into the habit of holding onto these precious documents.

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