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March 16–19, 2014

Austin, Texas

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Dissertation to Book: Educating Graduate Students about Open Access

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 9:50 AM–10:35 AM CDT

Room 203

Conference Track

6. Scholarly Communication

Keywords

Open Access, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

Learning Objectives

Participants will leave this session with ideas for similar open access outreach events aimed at graduate students and their faculty advisors. The lessons learned by the presenters will help participants shape their outreach efforts more effectively.

Abstract

During the 2013 International Open Access Week, the UCLA Library hosted an ambitious and well-received event addressing the question of whether making dissertations available online hurts authors’ publishing prospects. In this session, we describe this event and offer it as a successful experiment in educating graduate students on open access.