Mandatory Open Access Publishing for Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Ethics and Enthusiasm Academic Article

abstract

• This article argues against policies that require students to submit theses and dissertations to electronic institutional repositories. The article counters a variety of arguments often used to justify this practice. In addition, the article reports on the results of an examination of electronic thesis and dissertation policies at more than 150 university libraries and graduate schools, offering a system of criteria and scoring for ranking these policies according to their respect for student copyright and intellectual property. 2013 Elsevier Inc.

authors

• Ives, Maura

published proceedings

• The Journal of Academic Librarianship

altmetric score

• 11.75

author list (cited authors)

• Hawkins, A. R., Kimball, M. A., & Ives, M.

citation count

• 17

complete list of authors

• Hawkins, Ann R||Kimball, Miles A||Ives, Maura

publication date

• January 2013

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Academic Librarianship  Journal

keywords

• 4 Quality Education
• 46 Information And Computing Sciences
• 4610 Library And Information Studies

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.12.003

start page

• 32

end page

• 60

volume

• 39

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2012.12.003