Embargoes Can Only Go So Far to Help New Ph.D.'s Get Published - Graduate Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Summary:

"An official at the historical association said the statement had drawn significantly more readers than did their typical blog posts, and evoked strong responses from both supporters and critics....Some critics said the policy recommendation wasn't grounded in good data about the willingness of book publishers to consider revised versions of electronic dissertations, or about whether libraries will buy monographs that derive from them. Some press editors and university-library officials have asserted that the history association also seems oblivious to new library-purchasing practices that are mitigating potential threats to revised dissertations...."

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http://chronicle.com/article/Embargoes-Can-Only-Go-So-Far/140603/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Date tagged:

07/30/2013, 09:39

Date published:

07/30/2013, 05:39