Dissertation Release and Embargo Procedures

Dissertation Release/Embargo Options: 

From the inception of the modern doctorate in the early 19th century, a central purpose of doctoral education has been to prepare students to make significant scholarly contributions to knowledge. The dissertation is submitted as public evidence of your scholarly accomplishment meriting the conferral of the doctoral degree. In keeping with this long-standing tradition, which is consistent with the university's public mission, it has always been the university's expectation that every doctoral dissertation and abstract will be released upon conferral of the degree. Only in specific circumstances may release of a dissertation be deferred, and then only for a limited period of time. 

Doctoral dissertations and abstracts are normally made publicly available upon degree conferral when they are deposited electronically in Deep Blue. If a doctoral student wishes to postpone public release of the final dissertation, also called a dissertation embargo, the student should discuss this option with his or her faculty advisor. The student is responsible for requesting an embargo of the dissertation.

A student may independently choose among several levels of embargo for the copy of the dissertation that is deposited electronically with ProQuest.
 
Embargo requests must be submitted before the final dissertation submission deadline with which the student is working.  
 

Two dissertation embargo options are available: University of Michigan Only Access and Full Restriction. 

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