From: Kevin Smith <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 05:57:34 +0000 Most publishers understand this and have policies in place to facilitate it. The one publisher with whom we have had difficulty in the past was John Wiley. Several years ago we had a case where the article could be included in the print dissertation (a useless provision since there is no longer a print copy submitted at Duke) but not in the online version. At the time no embargo was sufficient, or so we were told (one difficulty we encountered was that the representative we were talking to did not seem to clearly understand his own company's policy). So that dissertation has one chapter missing from the online version, with a dark copy that is complete. 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. See http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html I understand the escalating pressure to include published articles, but doing that puts our students' academic success in the hands of people outside the university who do not share any commitment to higher education. The real goal is peer review prior to the submission of the dissertation; we should be working on how to accomplish that without outsourcing to publishers. Kevin Kevin L. Smith, M.L.S., J.D. Director, Copyright and Scholarly Communications Duke University Libraries On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:08 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Sandra Wenner <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:23:55 +0000 Any help on this would be deeply appreciated, since I am a relative newcomer to this particular matter. One of our nursing professors says that she believes there are some publishers (didn’t know who) who tend to restrict students who submit an article to one of their journals from subsequently including that article in the student’s dissertation/thesis. Some of our students’ dissertations here must contain 3 published articles, so this can be a real problem. If anyone could let me know the names of these publishers, that would be wonderful. Thank you. Sandy Wenner Sandra L. Wenner, MLS, JD Interim Director Library of Rush University Medical Center 600 S. Paulina Street, Suite 577 Chicago, IL 60612-3832