Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Historians Seek a Delay in Posting Dissertations

.... why would someone work years to produce a dissertation and then insist that it not be seen for as many as six more years?....university presses are known to be skeptical about agreeing to publish a book when the Ph.D dissertation it is based on is readily available online.......“The idea of locking up ideas for six years is not right,” said Heather Joseph, the executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, which favors open research. “The thing that bothered us the most is that it was a one-dimensional response to a multidimensional issue, and a missed opportunity.”........

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