"Five Dozen Doctoral Students Chose Bits and Bytes over Ink and Paper"
In "Five Dozen Doctoral Students Chose Bits and Bytes over Ink and Paper," Kathleen J. Sullivan discusses Stanford University's ETD program.
Here's an excerpt:
Most of the Stanford graduate students who uploaded their dissertations—47 out of 60—chose to display their dissertations in their entirety.
Most of the students—52 out of 60—selected the "attribution non-commercial" license from Creative Commons. . . .
More than half of the doctoral students—36 out of 60—chose to release their dissertation immediately. Ten of them chose to delay the release for six months; nine chose a one-year embargo; five chose a two-year delay.
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