From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:01:03 +0000 >Had you excerpted the preceding sentence as well, Rick, I think my >point would have been clear. Had I excerpted the preceding sentence, your point would have looked even less reasonable. The idea that Wiley¹s one-year embargo makes dissertations less accessible in the digital age than they were in the print era is ridiculous. Even if your point was intended to apply only to dissertations affected by the Wiley embargo policy, it still doesn¹t make sense. After the one-year embargo those dissertations can be made globally and freely available, representing, on balance, an enormous step forward in accessibility compared to the situation during the print era. Here are both of your original sentences in full: "Wiley still has very complex reuse policies, and, depending on how you read them, they could require a one year embargo before a dissertation can be made public. We should note that this makes dissertations in the digital age less accessible than they were in the past, for no reason other than to protect the markets of commercial publishers, or, perhaps, to pander to their fears.² Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]