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Dear Colleagues-  I am in the process of negotiating with our Graduate School the policy under which theses and dissertations (T&D's) are deposited in our institutional repository (http://ecommons.cornell.edu^{Image Removed})

The graduate school will currently agree to a policy which
"mandates all electronically deposit T&D's go into the IR. The default submission would be to a dark or closed (ie full text is unaccessible, abstract is accessible) portion of the IR unless the student agreed (by checking  a box on the form) to have it open. After 5 years the library could/would try to contact the student to gain permission to have it moved to the open portion of the IR."

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1. Institution Name
2. IR URL:
3.T&D's are mandated for deposit (Y or N)
4. Default deposit is Open____ Closed_____
5. IF Closed for how many years??
6. What is your arrangement for moving from Open to Closed

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The results of the survey are now posted in an excel spreadsheet ohere here

Here is my take on a quick summary.

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John M. Saylor                                                                      
-Interim AUL for Scholarly Communications and Collections
Cornell University Library (CUL)
-Director, Engineering Library
http://www.englib.cornell.edu/jms/&nbsp^{Image Removed};
Ithaca, NY 14850-4623
email: JMS1@cornell.edu
phone: 607-255-4134
fax:   607-255-5196