From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:32:38 +0000

>1. One will do the graduands, who will usually be job-hunting after
>graduation, a disservice by withholding public access to their work.
>They need the web presence of their thesis to get known
>professionally.

I don¹t think anyone is proposing that institutions withold public access
to theses and dissertations. What is being suggested is that the authors
of those theses and dissertations should perhaps be allowed to choose how
and when their work will be made public. Are you suggesting that to give
them that choice would be to do them a disservice?

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