Ed.D Graduate Project Formatting Guidelines

Your Graduate Project is part of the proof of your achievement, and as such all Graduate Projects at UMass Global will be made available for public access.

Electronic copies of all Graduate Projects submitted to the ETD system will be routed to the UMass Global Library shortly after the formatting of your manuscript has been accepted. The Library will preserve and make accessible to the public all theses and dissertations submitted electronically, in accordance with Library policies and best practices. This may include publishing theses and dissertations online through UMass Global Scholarworks and/or the ProQuest EDT system.

Providing such access increases the availability and dissemination of your work at no charge to you, although ProQuest does offer services for a fee (such as printing). If you do not wish for your work to be published immediately, you may request an embargo (see below).

Embargoes

If you plan to publish your work elsewhere, you can request that ProQuest and the Library withhold your manuscript for a period of 6 months or 1-6 years. This is called requesting an embargo, and it means that your manuscript will not be published online through Scholarworks or ProQuest in their databases until after the embargo period concludes.

Upon extraordinary circumstances (such as high legal or safety risk to the graduate student), an extended embargo may be granted for as long as such extraordinary circumstances exist. To do so, you should submit a memo explaining the request through your advisor.

You can request an embargo in ProQuest under PQ Publishing Options