From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:32:38 +0000 >1. One will do the graduands, who will usually be job-hunting after >graduation, a disservice by withholding public access to their work. >They need the web presence of their thesis to get known >professionally. I donĀ¹t think anyone is proposing that institutions withold public access to theses and dissertations. What is being suggested is that the authors of those theses and dissertations should perhaps be allowed to choose how and when their work will be made public. Are you suggesting that to give them that choice would be to do them a disservice? Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]