From: "Lewis, Ruth" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 13:49:03 +0000 I haven’t done a systematic study but I do handle some questions about this for our PhD students. I find the links to author rights from SHERPA/ROMEO useful and also permissions links at journal websites. I expect there are some publishers who do not allow their authors to use their own publications in their own dissertations but I haven’t found any yet. I’ve run into a few publishers that allow only “final author manuscript versions” in dissertations. A few seem to charge but when you go through the whole permissions procedure it ends up costing the author nothing to use the publisher version in their own dissertation. Of course, this is a reason for authors to be actually read their copyright transfer agreements, negotiate to keep the rights that they need upfront, and keep track of rights granted back by publishers – but most authors just don’t / won’t so it’s probably not reasonable to expect new scholars to do better than their mentors L Ruth Lewis Scholarly Communications Coordinator & Science (Biology, Math, History of Science) Librarian Washington University in St. Louis [log in to unmask] http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2680-6235