Dear Colleagues, I got an interesting query from a new colleague today. It is her specific issue, but I think a more general one for journals. See below for my edited version of the query. Please respond to the list in general Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Director FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ The university where I got my PhD requires publishing through ProQuest - either "traditional" or "open access." For traditional, it is closed and people must pay to access it (and I would receive a royalty, but I don't know who in their right mind might actually purchase a dissertation), and in open it is freely available for download. In either case I retain the copyright. *** My question is this: does either option impact my ability to publish journal articles from the document? Specifically, I have four papers I'd like to pull from it and much of each would be verbatim from the diss. *** Will journals see papers from an open access diss as "already published" or as somehow less desirable? I'd prefer to put it out open access, but not at the risk of not being able to publish from it.