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Hoping to keep their theses available for eventual commercial publication, creative-writing students at some colleges have raised objections to policies allowing open access online to their works. Mark Brazaitis (left), director of the creative-writing program at West Virginia U., says his students should be able to opt out of a program to put their theses online. John H. Hagen (right), a library administrator at WVU, says online distribution will help writers' professional prospects. (Photograph by Randy Snyder)
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