Mandatory Open Access Publishing for Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Ethics and Enthusiasm

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-60

  Hawkins, Ann R ^a   Kimball, Miles A ^a   Ives, Maura ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ETDs; Ethics; Institutional repositories; Intellectual property; Open access

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875868876     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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