At Baylor University we provide graduate students with 2 options for embargoing their theses:
- 2-year embargo -- This option is best used if you have a pending journal publication and the publisher requests that you delay access to your thesis or if you have patent and/or similar proprietary reasons for withholding your thesis from open access. This option restricts access to your work for a period of two years from the graduation date.
- 5-year embargo -- This option is best used if you are (or will be) submitting material to a journal or book publisher. Some publishers prefer not to publish material that has been openly accessible. This option restricts access to your document for five years from the graduation date.
Additional information about embargo options at Baylor University:
- The creator of the work can contact libraryquestions@baylor.edu and request that the embargo be extended.
- We have a one-semester grace period before we make the thesis openly accessible. In other words, if a student graduates in December 2014 and has requested a 2-year embargo, we would make that thesis openly accessible at the end of the spring semester, May 2017 -- unless we had communciation from the creator of the work to extend the embargo.