Hi, Yvonne-- This is actually a fairly common thing to have happen, especially for institutions that use ProQuest ETDAdmin. ETDAdmin offers graduating students the choice between what they call "Traditional Publishing" and "Open Access Service." The Traditional Publishing option is free (except for the $50 they optionally charge to file copyright); the OA publishing is $90.
ProQuest asks students to agree to the agreement I've pasted below in its entirety, which includes the following clause: *ProQuest® Publishing Program - Election and Elements.* The rights granted > above shall be exercised according to the publishing option selected by > Author on the previous Publishing Options screen, and subject to the > following additional Publishing Program requirements: > > - *Redistribution of the Work.* *Except as restricted by Author in the > publishing option selected, the rights granted by Author automatically > include (1) the right to allow sale and distribution of the Work, in whole > or in part, by agents and distributors,* and (2) the right to make the > Abstract, bibliographic data and any meta data associated with the Work > available to search engines and harvesters. > > Could this be what's happened in your situation? 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Royalties will be paid when accrued earned royalties reach $25.00 USD. If, after 25 years, earned royalties do not accrue to at least $25.00 USD, ProQuest's royalty payment obligation will cease. On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 12:08 PM Yvonne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been communicating with a librarian who runs a DSpace repository. She > received a complaint from a student who found that their honors thesis has > been posted for sale on Amazon and Barnes and Noble as a print-on-demand > book. I visited this "publisher's" site on Amazon (named nomadicindian) and > found many other theses and dissertations for sale. > > I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this. Specifically, what measures > can be used in the DSpace environment to mitigate against illegal use of > open access content? Has anyone out there encountered this problem, and how > did you approach it? > > Many thanks, > Yvonne Kester > Repositories Manager > SUNY Library Services > > -- > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: > https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/CAKZKP2CThG4rnC8CmujZs_VgQysHB_-%2BMZtRYkY4RfTu%2BK%2B6QA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/CAKZKP2CThG4rnC8CmujZs_VgQysHB_-%2BMZtRYkY4RfTu%2BK%2B6QA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. 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