From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:04:58 +0000

>What about UMI, Rick? Anyone could purchase a dissertation registered
>with UMI in a POD format (ugly as sin, but still legible), so
>dissertations with UMI were immediately available to anyone willing to
>pay the price.

Not during the print era. Immediate availability came with the digital
era. During the print era they were accessible, but nowhere near as easily
or immediately accessible as they became in the digital era.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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