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Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, Deborah! I would be interested in knowing more about your findings. Best, Lucy On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Fitchett, Deborah < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Lucy, > > I hadn't heard about it, but from a quick search it looks suspiciously > catch-free. Provide an OAI feed and then receive reports of how much it's > increased traffic to your IR, what's to dislike? > > I suspect it is actually as good as it says on the tin - presumably > EBSCO's motivation is that they're in competition with ProQuest and if they > want to play catch-up then playing the Open Access card is a good way to > get interest. > > I'll send them an email and find out if there's any fine print... Would be > interested to hear if anyone else has had any contact with them about it. > > Deborah > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Tiewei Liu > Sent: Friday, 19 January 2018 12:41 p.m. > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] EBSCO Open Dissertations > > Hi folks, > > Are there libraries enrolled in the EBSCO Open Dissertations program? Is > there any downside if participate? > > Thanks! > > > Best, > Lucy > > ________________________________ > P Please consider the environment before you print this email. > "The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be > confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, > distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you > have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return > e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all > attachments from your system." >