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 [log in to unmask]