Thesius

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Thesius

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legal form Brand of persona service AG & Co. KG
founding 2012
Seat Ludenscheid
Branch Information technology and services
Website https://www.thesius.de/

Thesius is an online platform for research and science communication. The name Thesius is derived from the term thesis , which is used in an academic context to designate a thesis to obtain the academic degree. The platform was founded by Michael Grupp, Jennifer Antomo and Dennis Albert, doctoral students from Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz), comparable to the platforms Index to theses (England) and theses.fr (France).

Thesius was acquired in 2017 by the personnel service provider Persona Service , which has been operating the research portal since then.

Functions

In addition to ongoing doctoral projects, which are recorded by registering doctoral students, Thesius contains a database of most of the completed and published dissertations in Germany, sorted by subject area. In addition to bibliographical information, the database also contains metadata on the work and personal or professional information on the authors. When researching, Thesius uses a semantic search technique ( index search ) which, in contrast to the purely character matching string search, works faster and more precisely.

background

An online platform in the sense of science communication 2.0 has been discussed in the academic world since the advent of social media. More transparent science communication has been the subject of discussion in Germany, especially since the plagiarism scandals, so a platform like Thesius has often been suggested.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer: The Facebook for doctoral students . In: Zeit Online , March 24, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung: From doctoral students for doctoral students http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/nachrichten-mainz/von-doktoranden-zu-doktoranden_14064367.htm Allgemeine Zeitung, March 2014, accessed on July 15, 2014
  3. ↑ Manuel Heckel: Personnel service provider buys research portal . In: Wirtschaftswoche , February 24, 2018. Accessed May 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ A Facebook for doctoral students: http://www.wiwo.de/erffekt/campus-mba/promotion-das-facebook-fuer-doktoranden/9610756.html WirtschaftsWoche , 3 / March 2014, accessed on July 15, 2014
  5. ↑ a b Thesius website.Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ Maredith Parez: "Web 2.0 in action for science" In: "Young Information Professionals Day 2009, 61". Düsseldorf, Retrieved June 18, 2014. pp. 128–134.
  7. ↑ Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha: "Public science as reflected in the Web 2.0 culture" . In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha Jesús Muñoz Morcillo (Ed.): “Public Science & New Media. The role of Web 2.0 culture in science communication ”, 2011. Karlsruhe: Scientific Publishing. Retrieved on: June 18, 2014, p. 28.
  8. ↑ Ruben Karschnick: "Digitizes the dissertations" . Zeit-Online, November 5, 2013. Accessed June 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares: “Writing incomprehensible” . FAZ, November 2, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2014.