Doctorate dissertations and abstracts are usually made openly available upon degree conferral when they’re deposited digitally in Dark Blue. In limited conditions, a doctorate student may decide to postpone public discharge of the ultimate dissertation of record that’s deposited in Dark Blue, the permanent digital repository from the College Library.

Students who’s thinking about this type of postponement, also known as a dissertation embargo, should discuss this method with their faculty consultant and all of those other dissertation committee. A student accounts for requesting an embargo from the dissertation, and also the request should be authorized by the chair (and co-chair, or no) from the dissertation committee.

Two dissertation embargo choices are available:

• U-M only access. Students might want to restrict accessibility dissertation to people from the U-M community (individuals having a uniqname along with a Kerberos password) for approximately twelve months in the date of degree conferral. The title and abstract is going to be displayed in online listings from the College Library, however the content from the dissertation won’t be open to view in order to download.
• Full restriction. Students may seek permission in the Graduate School to have an embargo that restricts all accessibility dissertation for approximately twelve months in the date of degree conferral. Permission is going to be granted only if:
  • A student (or their collaborators) is utilizing for any patent on research within the dissertation and doesn’t wish to help make the contents public before the patent application continues to be filed or
  • The dissertation includes information that’s covered for any limited time period with a confidentiality agreement or contains third-party proprietary information.
  

• Dissertations which are fully restricted aren’t incorporated in the web based listings from the College Library and also the title and abstract aren’t open to the general public or even the College Community. A complete restriction can’t be extended beyond twelve months. Unless of course the graduate demands and it is granted permission for the next year of U-M only access, the dissertation is going to be fully released.

Dissertation embargo renewal:

Renewal request. In the finish from the twelve months U-M only or full restriction embargo period, graduates may ask the Graduate School to postpone full public release for the next year in the U-M only access level. Full restriction can’t be restored. Permission in the Graduate School is needed to resume an embargo. Permission will be presented just for specific reasons, like the graduate’s intention to write work in the dissertation inside a journal or book having a writer that restricts thought on manuscripts produced from dissertations which have been provided online. (Please be aware that most publishers don’t have restrictive pre-publication policies.) It’s the graduate’s responsibility to request a renewal from the U-M only dissertation embargo. Permission isn’t guaranteed. Graduates may ask for approximately two annual renewals, for as many as 3 years of U-M only access (a treadmill year full restriction restored into 2 yrs U-M only access).

Students may individually choose among several amounts of embargo for that copy from the dissertation that’s deposited digitally with UMI/ProQuest.

Embargo demands should be posted prior to the final dissertation submission deadline that a student is working.