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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 mediathat  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