Japanese dissertations go open access By Yao Chen on March 4, 2013 12:46 PM | No TrackBacks Effective on April 2013, all doctoral dissertations approved by Japanese universities are to be publicly available via Internet. Updates will be provided later when details are released. Dissertation modification summary (in Japanese) Flowchart of the open access process (in Japanese) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.