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### Introduction
The following An increasing proportion of American universities
now require submission of doctoral dissertations to open access
repositories and leave repositories, leaving graduate students with the choice whether to also submit their scholarship to a commercial dissertation reseller. This significant development in open access scholarship and open science publishing recognizes that
the obsolete practice of dissertation microfilming and reselling --
a practice established in the pre-digital era of the the early-mid 1900's --
was for a few decades is no longer the "best" technology for
cheaply copying effectively copying, preserving, and
redistributing widely disseminating lengthy academic manuscripts.
Many student works were too narrowly focused to be viable published books, Moreover, housing electronic theses and
the cost dissertations in scholarly repositories affords more flexible and appropriate curation of
printing multimedia and
mailing big heavy volumes was prohibitive. dynamic outputs not optimally containerized in a PDF file with static supplements.
Now fast-forward to the late 20th century, and the emergence The ubiquity of
academic scholarship on the Internet and
the ready availability of rich
online digital media
that provide superior methods to broadly disseminate and responsibly preserve dissertations. Submission and discovery of dissertations via Open Access repositories and broad dissemination via scholarly sharing networks such as SHARE offer much greater exposure, access to, and the potential for reuse of electronic theses and dissertations. Institution decision makers interested in reviewing the many benefits of open ETDs in Open Access repositories may find the associated reading list of interest.
### Updated List of Institutions Prompting Open Access Dissertations