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The digital age has been improving access to information and academic discourse among students and anyone interested in learning more about a scholarly topic. The amount of data anyone can find through the Internet enables a person to quickly become an expert in any field of interest. Our business thrives on our ability to harness the qualities of online networks that make them perfect for academic research.

Across the globe, many countries are improving access to academic papers, recognizing the practical nature of making information widely available to all. By opening access to sources of intellectual debate, a government can greatly improve the nature of learning and innovation within a society.

In Taiwan, thousands of academic papers from the present and past will soon be uploaded to public databases for any citizen to view. As this article published by Taiwan News discusses, the Ministry of Education in Taipei will fund a project to store academic dissertations and thesis papers in databases for public view at the National Central Library.

This new initiative is mandated by an amendment to the recently passed legislation titled “Act Governing the Conferment of Academic Degrees.” Although it does make academic papers public, private information regarding the authors will not be displayed for all to view. Paper versions of doctoral theses and other papers are already submitted to the National Central Library for public review, but this is the first time that electronic versions will be made widely available.

Making information publicly available to a wide swath of the national public is an investment in citizen education that goes beyond building schools. The ubiquitous nature of computers in today’s world and their capacity for mining information from databases make them great educational tools, whether or not someone is enrolled in an educational program. Writing Sharks believes that, in the right hands, the Internet can lead directly to better academic performance at any level.