Author Rights and Electronic Manuscript Submission Information

Author Rights and Electronic Manuscript Submission Information

Rights Management and Access Information

When publishing scholarly research, such as a thesis or dissertation, authors must understand how
copyright laws effect access to this work. By not understanding these rights, you may mistakenly
prohibit access to your work. Below are examples of rights authors should consider before signing any contracts with publishers:

• The right to make reproductions for teaching purposes, scholarship, or research.
• The right to borrow and/or publish portions of your manuscript in future work.
• The right to display the work (i.e., link to full-text on resumes, cover letter, personal website).
• The right to archive and preserve your manuscript in an institutional repository.

Learn more about author rights and how to add addendums to a copyright agreement.

Institutional Repository and Open Access

Scholar Works at UT Tyler is our institutional repository, an online resource that collects, preserves, and provides open access to digital theses, dissertations, and other scholarly research. Scholar Works at UT Tyler provides an outlet for digital submission and access, while maintaining all of your author rights. In submitting your manuscript, you allow your work to be accessible online, to the widest range of scholars at no cost to you or other researchers.

You can still choose to distribute your work with another publisher, but you must safeguard your right to have your manuscript be available in an open access repository.

Submission Instructions

1. Read thoroughly the UT Tyler policy for submitting theses/dissertations and the above Rights
   and Access Information. Submitting your work to Scholar Works is required in addition to the
   information from the Thesis and Dissertation Center provided by the Graduate School. Your
   electronic submission must match the style and format requirements listed in these guidelines.
   Once your manuscript is approved and all requirements are met, you may submit your work
   following the procedures below.
2. You are required to select one of three release options for your manuscript. Selection of any of
   these options does not surrender your copyright but allows UT Tyler distribution based on which option you choose. Please review the following options carefully and be prepared to indicate which selection meets your rights management criteria upon submission of your work.

• Option 1—Open Access: The manuscript is publicly available through Scholar Works after
  the date of degree conferral of the graduation period for which the manuscript is submitted.
  By choosing this option you agree to have your manuscript in Scholar Works, which provides
  much broader access to your work.
• Option 2—Local Use Only: Access to the manuscript through Scholar Works is restricted to
  members of the University community for a period of two years (or more) from the date of
  degree conferral of the graduation period for which the manuscript is submitted. The
  manuscript will also be available through the University’s Interlibrary Loan service during
  this time, after which the work will be become publicly available through Scholar Works.
• Option 3—Embargo (Closed Access): Access to the work will be restricted. It will not be
  available to anyone for a period of two years from the date of degree conferral of the
  graduation period for which the manuscript is submitted, after which the manuscript will
  become publicly available through Scholar Works. The only content available during the
  embargo is author name, title, and abstract. If, at the end of the two-year period you would
  like to continue the closed access option, you must contact the Muntz Library at
  library@uttyler.edu. Otherwise, the manuscript will become an open access.

NOTE: Regardless of access option, the record (name, title, abstract, and subjects) of all content in
Scholar Works are discoverable through the general web.

3. Submit your manuscript to UT Tyler’s Institutional Repository, at Scholar Work at UT Tyler.
View a video tutorial for submitting your manuscript.
4. You will be asked to select one of the above release options, add the following information, and
attach your final PDF of your manuscript.

• Author (full name)
• Abstract
• Permanent email address
• Title
• Document Type
• Brief Abstract
• Keywords
• Language
• Committee Members
• Degree

Please contact the Robert R. Muntz Library at 903.566.7343 or library@uttyler.edu with any questions.