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Originally Posted on the (now-closed) blog _Free US ETDs (FUSE)_ as
Author's accepted manuscript of a chapter published in Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Implementation (Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson, eds.), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
At the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, young scholars distance themselves from the organization's stance on embargoing dissertations and encourage new forms of graduate work.
I received a few of these emails, from scholars' press, LAP Lambert, and others, offering me a chance to publish my thesis. Here's why I said "no".
On AHA and "da book."
When The Chronicle of Higher Education published its “Cautionary Tale” about a dissertation discovered, by its author, to be available for sale on Amazon.com without his knowledge, it was bound to stir up another round of anxiety over how dissertations are distributed in a digital world. In the particular case, the problem was that ProQuest, … Continue reading Dissertations for sale, or, scaring the children, part 2 →
A few weeks back I did some investigations into the current state of etheses submissions. From reading webpages and speaking to a fair few other repository managers (thanks guys) I built up the fo…