Dick
Sorry - no comfort here, only to say we're experiencing one department's academics advising their students to ask automatically for lengthy restrictions or not submit to the repository in case they may wish to publish.
Robin
 
 
Robin Green
Deputy Librarian, University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL      UK
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From: UK discussion list for electronic theses and dissertations [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dick Chamberlain
Sent: 31 March 2009 17:09
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Subject: etheses and effect on chances of commercial publication

I’ve been asked to take down an e-thesis because the author has hopes of the content being published as a monograph.  Is there any evidence to show that being openly-accessible damages or (preferably) enhances either (a) a  thesis’s chance of making it into monograph form, or (b) the eventual monograph’s sales ?   

 

Have others met this – have you found arguments to oppose the take-down request ?

 

Dick Chamberlain (Mr RJ Chamberlain)

Head of Collection & Access Management

Information Services, University  of Nottingham

Lenton Lane, Nottingham NG7 2NR, UK.

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