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### Introduction
An increasing proportion of American universities now require submission of doctoral dissertations to open access
repositories. When given repositories, eschewing outdated policies requiring microfilming and reselling by the
choice whether to also submit their scholarship to a third party, commercial
dissertation reseller, graduate students decline this practice as duplicative and unecessary distributor UMI/ProQuest \cite{Clement_2013}. This significant movement away from mandatory paywalls for American graduate scholarship recognizes that the obsolete practice of dissertation microfilming and reselling -- established in the pre-digital era of the the early-mid 1900's -- is no longer the "best" technology for effectively copying, preserving, and widely disseminating academic manuscripts. Moreover, housing electronic theses and dissertations in scholarly repositories affords more flexible and
appropriate curation responsive curataion of
multimedia multimedia, executable, and dynamic
research outputs not optimally containerized in a PDF file with static supplements. Distribution via open access networks exposes the
graduate students' works to broad
potential audiences without the barriers of commercial paywalls, corporate copyright warnings, and
outdated, one-size-fits-all file management and metadata
ill-suited options designed for
curating evolving forms of living, dynamic, data-rich graduate student scholarlship. bound paper volumes.
The ubiquity of academic scholarship on the Internet and the ready availability of rich online digital media provide superior methods to broadly disseminate and responsibly preserve dissertations.
Submission Management and discovery of dissertations via Open Access
repositories and broad dissemination repositories, combined with unfettered global distribution 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