From: <[log in to unmask]> 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 ************************** Jonathan H. Harwell Head of Collections and Systems Olin Library Rollins College Winter Park, FL 32789 [log in to unmask] > 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