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why'd you take the data down? I was writing a scraper in order to make your underlying data into happy open and accessible data: http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/stanford-dissertations/edit/

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I can't speak for Dan, but it's probably best if you don't do this! I think most of the data itself is UMI data from ProQuest, which seems to be licensed pretty strictly.

boo proprietary data!

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