From: "Lewis, Ruth" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 13:49:03 +0000

I haven’t done a systematic study but I do handle some questions about
this for our PhD students.   I find the links to author rights from
SHERPA/ROMEO useful and also permissions links at journal websites.  I
expect there are some publishers who do not allow their authors to use
their own publications  in their own dissertations but I haven’t found
any yet.  I’ve run into a few publishers that allow only “final author
manuscript versions” in dissertations.  A few seem to charge but when
you go through the whole permissions procedure it ends up costing the
author nothing to use the publisher version in their own dissertation.

Of course, this is a reason for authors to be actually read their
copyright transfer agreements,  negotiate to keep the rights that they
need upfront, and keep track of rights granted back by publishers –
but most authors just don’t / won’t so it’s probably not reasonable to
expect new scholars to do better than their mentors L

Ruth Lewis
Scholarly Communications Coordinator & Science (Biology, Math, History
of Science) Librarian
Washington University in St. Louis
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