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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 find
relevant readings on the associated
bibliography. reading list of interest.
### Updated List of Institutions Prompting Open Access Dissertations