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The American Historical Association recently called on universities to allow people who have successfully defended their dissertation to elect to embargo them from online digital publication for up to six years (AHA Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations).
The dissertations would still be accessible for research through inter-library loans, but a student could opt out of online publication, presumably to allow them time to continue to revise and develop and publish their work as in their discretion i.e. try to make some coin before all their work is out there for free.
Just curious if anyone here has an opinion on this one way or the other, especially if they work in the academic world and have been through the dissertation ringer.
The dissertations would still be accessible for research through inter-library loans, but a student could opt out of online publication, presumably to allow them time to continue to revise and develop and publish their work as in their discretion i.e. try to make some coin before all their work is out there for free.
Just curious if anyone here has an opinion on this one way or the other, especially if they work in the academic world and have been through the dissertation ringer.