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The ETD Project offers a glimmer of hope that academia will break the strangle hold publishers have over our professional lives. In the name of peer review and promotion and tenure, we are willing to sign away ownership and control of our intellectual property. ETD's offer a way to disseminate scholarship at low cost, in new creative ways without signing away copyright. If only senior faculty would take the perceived risk, we ask of our graduate students, and publish openly in the net.

Ask any librarian about the millions of dollars our libraries pay out each year to publishers to buy back the work of our faculty, or the thousands of serial titles we have canceled to pay for the cost of maintaining the current system of peer review and promotion and tenure based on paper publication to memorialize faculty accomplishment on the shelves of our libraries. They will tell you of a system in a state of self destruction.

ETD's will not save us, but they may begin to change the values and culture of the next generation of scholars who could break the strangle hold of publishers.

-- Paul M.Gherman, University Librarian (posted 2/13, 4:45 p.m., E.S.T.)
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