1. Open Access and Copyright for Theses and Dissertations
Erin Jerome
26 October 2017

2. What is ScholarWorks?
An open access digital repository, administered by the UMass Amherst libraries, that promotes, preserves, and provides access to scholarly material produced by UMass Amherst faculty, researchers, and students
Available to all members of the UMass Amherst academic community
Represents a way for the UMass Amherst community to organize and store its research in a single unified location

3. Established July 2006
Contains 61,654 items
9,280,055 downloads (as of 24 October 2017)
Accessed by institutions in 235 countries

4. ScholarWorks hosts 11,762 theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Includes the retrospectively digitized ETDs
ETDs have been downloaded 3,221,262 times
“A Translation from English to Spanish of Selected Chapters from Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For” has been downloaded 231,017 since August 2009
ETDs have been accessed by 227 countries

5. Submitting your thesis or dissertation

6. Know your options Open access Open access with embargo
Campus only access (for 1 or 5 years)
Campus only access with embargo

7. Know your options (pt. 2) Open access Embargoes Campus only access
Publishing philosophy that makes scholarly materials freely available online to the public
Increases visibility of works that might otherwise be hidden by paywall/subscription restrictions
Removes the obstacle of privilege in access to scholarship
Embargoes
A restriction placed on your dissertation or thesis for a specific period of time. No one will be able to access the PDF of your work during this period
Cannot be loaned via interlibrary loan
Campus only access
Access to content restricted to members of the UMass community
Loanable via interlibrary loan to non-UMass community members
use your current address if you want to be ed your usage statistics!

8. Dissertations and Theses in ScholarWorks

9. Reasons for an embargo Concerns about future publication
Concerns about applying for a patent
Concerns about private or sensitive information
Concerns about the use of copyrighted work in your own work

10. Using Copyrighted Works in your ETD
Public domain works
All works published before 1923 (copyright expiration)
Things get complicated for works published after 1923:
Openly licensed materials (Creative Commons)
Fair use

11. Creative Commons Licenses

12. Creator Rights http://creativecommons.org

13. Licensing your work

14. Fair Use Four factors: Purpose and character of use
Nature of the copyrighted work
Amount used
Effect on potential market

15. What else can you do with ScholarWorks?
Share your publications, conference presentations, working papers, unpublished manuscripts, datasets, and more.
Create and publish a peer-reviewed journal.
Host a conference from the call for submissions to the final publication of presentations.

16. Questions? More information about ScholarWorks:
Scholarly Communication Department:
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Open access publishing philosophy makes scholarly materials available online to the public, free of charge