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### Introduction  The following American universities require submission of doctoral dissertations to open access repositories and leave students with the choice whether to also submit their scholarship to a commercial reseller (meaning they’ve gone “ProQuest Optional” or “NoQuest”). dissertation reseller.  This significant development in open access scholarship and open science publishing recognizes that dissertation microfilming and reselling  -- a practice established in the pre-digital era of the the early-mid 20th Century 1900's  -- was for a few decades the "best" technology for cheaply copying and redistributing lengthy academic manuscripts. Many student works were too narrowly focused to be viable published books, and the cost of printing and mailing big heavy volumes was prohibitive.  But since Now fast-forward to  the late 20th century century, and  the emergence of the Internet and rich digital media that  provide superior methods to broadly disseminate and responsibly preserve dissertations. Submission and discovery of  dissertations via Open Access repositories and disseminating them broad dissemination  via scholarly sharing networks such as SHARE. SHARE offer much greater exposure, access to, and the potential for reuse of electronic theses and dissertations.  Institution decision makers considering changing dissertation dissemination policy for interested in reviewing the many benefits of open ETDs in  Open Access repositories  may findrelevant readings on  the associated bibliography. reading list of interest.  ### Updated List of Institutions Prompting Open Access Dissertations