Hello, I want to thank you for coming today.
This is the first official open access week um
event this week at Virginia Tech and we're addressing
ETDs In the open
access um in the digital landscape in the graduate school
arena. But Virginia Tech was was the first um
to do that and thus has had a long standing
policy. The range of responses was really wide.
There there were people who said, oh yes,
absolutely, right. And then there were people that
said, oh my gosh, we're so, you
know, we're still based on the book and and
we're, you know, the tenure process and
that's what we need to be changing. You know
um, when I became aware of what dissertation
embargoing was um, particularly because it was being
put forward nationally by the American Historical Association. Um
I immediately I thought, you know, this pertains
to me. And here is a look at all three
of the of the surveyed groups, the journal editors
and the sciences and the humanities and social science as
well as the press directors. So this just gives
you a different perspective on the same, the same
data. And I think what was interesting for me
to find out about this survey also was that they're
not as concerned about ETDs being restricted to the home
institutions. I mean, this is really why we
at Virginia Tech decided to have this restriction is because
we talked to um to journal editors and I remember
in particular the American Chemical Society, I mean,
this was the best thing that we could do for
them was to limit access, but according to the
editors and press directors, that's really not a major
consideration. Um, but that's exactly the reason that
embargoing caught my attention because I would love as
a PhD candidate, hopefully soon to be junior faculty
to have the system change. We need to
know what our university is about and then support it in
that way and disrupted it. If if at Tech we
do have our second largest college is the liberal arts
and human sciences, then we should behave like that.
I think I'd like to draw this to a
close by saying that perhaps one of the things that
we can do at Virginia Tech is to make more
of the work that we do in the social science
and the humanities available through our open access ETDs
Thank you all for coming.
Thank you guys very much.