{"id":4467,"date":"2012-06-26T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T23:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2012-06-26T18:42:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T23:42:01","slug":"dissertation-for-sale-a-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4467","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation for Sale: A Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while browsing around looking for books to read on my iPad I noticed what looked like a dissertation for sale. I&#8217;ve been wondering how dissertations could get into e-book stores when I remembered the license that graduate students are being asked to sign these days by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2230\">Theses Canada<\/a>. The system here encourages students to give a license to Library and Archives Canada that includes the right,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(a) to reproduce, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate to the public by telecommunication or on the Internet, loan, distribute and sell my thesis (the title of which is set forth above) worldwide, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, in microform, paper, electronic and\/or any other formats;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I now just came across this cautionary story in the Chronicle for Higher Education about <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Dissertation-for-Sale-A\/132401\/\">Dissertation for Sale: A Cautionary Tale<\/a>. It seems it is also allowed in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while browsing around looking for books to read on my iPad I noticed what looked like a dissertation for sale. I&#8217;ve been wondering how dissertations could get into e-book stores when I remembered the license that graduate students are being asked to sign these days by Theses Canada. The system here encourages &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dissertation for Sale: A Cautionary Tale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-education","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-literature","category-online-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}