[Air-L] Advice on dissertation publishing?

[Barry Wellman]

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
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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.