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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:31:21 +0000

It's odd that some of the publishers (as cited in the C&RL article)
blame libraries' approval plans for their own policies against
publishing these books.  It's true that YBP, for example, provides an
option for librarians to select "revised dissertations" and/or
"unrevised dissertations," so certainly some are treating them
differently from other books and not necessarily purchasing them
automatically.  However, there are a host of other non-subject
parameter options for excluding books from automatic purchase, and one
of the most commonly used ones is a price limit of perhaps $100 per
volume.  But this hasn't stopped publishers from producing books far
in excess of that price, and I've never heard publishers talk about a
fear that librarians won't buy expensive books.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Jonathan H. Harwell
Head of Collections and Systems
Olin Library
Rollins College
Winter Park, FL 32789
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> From: "Charles E. Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:30:24 +0000
>
> I sent this to Jim O'Donnell last evening, he encouraged me to send
> it to the list as well
>
> -Chuck Jones-
>
> Marisa L. Ramirez, Joan T. Dalton, Gail McMillan, Max Read, and
> Nancy H. Seamans, "Do Open Access Electronic Theses and
> Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social
> Sciences and Humanities? Findings from a 2011 Survey of Academic Publishers." Coll.
> res. libr. July 2013 74:368-380
>
> http://crl.acrl.org/content/74/4/368.full.pdf+html