| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 57.11 |
| Liaison | Smith Getterman |
| Submission Date | March 12, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Baylor University
AC-11: Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Smith
Getterman Assistant Director of Sustainability and Special Projects Office of Sustainability |
Total number of institutional divisions (e.g. schools, colleges, departments) that produce research:
Number of divisions covered by a policy assuring open access to research:
A brief description of the open access policy, including the date adopted and repository(ies) used:
Currently, Baylor's Graduate School requires all masters and doctoral students to submit their theses and dissertations to Baylor's institutional repository, BEARdocs. Faculty also participate in open access.
Date Revised: April 14, 2015
A copy of the open access policy:
The open access policy:
Doctoral students are required to submit their disseratations online to BEARdocs and to UMI/ProQuest. Master's students are required to submit their thesis online to BEARdocs; submission to UMI/ProQuest is optional. More information about this process can be found here.
For BEARdocs, students are allowed to request that the full-text of their work not be made available to the public (also called an embargo) for two years (generally in anticipation of journal article publication) or for five years (generally in anticipation of a patent or a book). Students must indicate that they want this hold using this form. After the initial embargo period, the hold can be extended. If you wish to extend the embargo, you must contact librarywebmaster@baylor.edu.
For UMI/ProQuest, you must fill out a separate Author Authorization form during the submission process. UMI/ProQuest explains their embargo process here. In addition to deciding about whether to embargo your full-text content, you need to decide whether to allow third-party retailers to access your content through UMI/ProQuest and publish/sell your work. Read this page for more information about third-party discovery and access. In general, you probably want to promote discovery but limit the sale of your work via this UMI/ProQuest third-party retailer option.
You retain the copyright to your work with your submission to BEARdocs and UMI/ProQuest. Under current US copyright law, the copyright for your work is automatically assigned to you, the creator. You can choose to file formally for copyright by filing with the Copyright Office. You can do this yourself or pay UMI/ProQuest or another party to file for you. The 2 main advantages of filing for the copyright come into play if you are infringed and go to court. In that case, filing copryght:
Provides the highest level of legal (prima facie) evidence that you own the copyright; and gives you the right to collect financial damages.
Faculty also participate in open access.
Date Revised: April 14, 2015
The website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of how the institution’s library(ies) support open access to research:
The website URL where information about open access to the institution's research is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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