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title:  Can we have a text version of Hawking thesis?
date:   2017-10-24 12:00
tags:   [ accessibility, "open access", thesis ]
og-desc: Congratulations ... I'm a little disappointed that alongside the PDF of the scanned thesis, there isn't a text version.
og-image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg/220px-Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg
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Dear University of Cambridge,

Congratulations on publishing [<NAME>' PhD thesis, "_Properties of expanding universes_" online][search].
I along with many others salute your commitment to [open access][oa]!

However, I'm a little disappointed that alongside the [PDF of the scanned thesis][pdf],
there isn't a text version available.

There are some important reasons to create a text version:

 1. [Accessibility to those with dis-abilities][a11y],
 2. Searchability,
 3. Access by those on low-bandwidth connections (_the scanned PDF is ~20 MB_).

I believe the above points relate to Cambridge University's adoption of
the [FAIR principles][fair], as mentioned in the [terms of use][].
Note that while the use of "_accessible_" in the FAIR principles does not
directly relate to the term used in relation to dis-abilities,<commit_msg>Bug #2, remove `published: false` from Hawking post<commit_after>---
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layout: post
title:  Can we have a text version of Hawking thesis?
date:   2017-10-24 12:00
tags:   [ accessibility, "open access", thesis ]
og-desc: Congratulations ... I'm a little disappointed that alongside the PDF of the scanned thesis, there isn't a text version.
og-image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg/220px-Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg
og-image-alt: <NAME>.
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Dear University of Cambridge,

Congratulations on publishing [<NAME>' PhD thesis, "_Properties of expanding universes_" online][search].
I along with many others salute your commitment to [open access][oa]!

However, I'm a little disappointed that alongside the [PDF of the scanned thesis][pdf],
there isn't a text version available.

There are some important reasons to create a text version:

 1. [Accessibility to those with dis-abilities][a11y],
 2. Searchability,
 3. Access by those on low-bandwidth connections (_the scanned PDF is ~20 MB_).

I believe the above points relate to Cambridge University's adoption of
the [FAIR principles][fair], as mentioned in the [terms of use][].
Note that while the use of "_accessible_" in the FAIR principles does not
directly relate to the term used in relation to dis-abilities,
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