From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 09:25:05 -0600

On the other hand, there is this argument in Ann R. Hawkins, Miles A.
Kimball, and Maura Ives,  "Mandatory Open Access Publishing for
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Ethics and Enthusiasm," The
Journal of Academic Librarianship 39 (2013): 32-60, which is
accessible via Elsevier's Science Direct. Here is the abstract:

This article argues against policies that require students to submit
theses and dissertations to electronic institutional repositories. The
article counters a variety of arguments often used to justify this
practice. In addition, the article reports on the results of an
examination of electronic thesis and dissertation policies at more
than 150 university libraries and graduate schools, offering a system
of criteria and scoring for ranking these policies according to their
respect for student copyright and intellectual property.

I hope Elsevier won't sue me for copying this abstract in its
entirety, having placed a copyright notice right after the abstract.

Sandy Thatcher



From: Gail Clement <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 01:05:04 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

This week, two new papers situate openness of ETDs as an essential
component of effective graduate education in the 21st century. Written
entirely independently, these two works in combination articulate the
power and promise of the ETD experience as an opportunity to empower
the newest generation of scholars to make meaningful and impactful
contributions to their disciplines and to society.

A summary of these articles, with links to each, may be found online

via the Free US Etds blog at http://bit.ly/1bEuyiS

Best regards,

Gail

Gail P. Clement
Scholarly Communications Librarian
& Associate Professor
University Libraries
Texas A&M University
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