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Free Culture Clash
Libraries think it makes sense to digitize theses and dissertations and have them web-searchable rather than have to rely on UMI publishing them. Having a few print copies on the shelf means hardly anyone will find that scholarship, and why would anyone go to the trouble to write all that if they don’t want it [...]
Posted: 13 March, 2008 in Copyright, Open Access.
Tags: electronic dissertations, electronic theses, Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa
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