Submission Guidelines for Diagnostic Genetics and Genomics Program Theses

Before submitting, please read all relevant policies and/or submission guidelines.

Before you begin, please be sure you have the following items:

  • The submission's title
  • The abstract
  • A list of keywords (10 maximum)
  • The electronic format of your file,

Eligibility and Approval

  1. The thesis must have been formally approved by the thesis committee, including the committee chair.
  2. The thesis must have been officially accepted by the Diagnostic Genetics and Genomics Program.
  3. The thesis chair must confirm and approve submission of the Work in its current form by completing the program’s submission-approval form.
  4. The Work must comply with all applicable institutional, sponsor, and ethical guidelines.
  5. All references and citations within the Work must conform to accepted scholarly standards set by the Diagnostic Genetics and Genomics program.
  6. To comply with ADA Title II requirements, web content, including PDF's and Word documents, must comply with the WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards of accessible web content. Authors must complete a check for accessibility before submitting to OpenWorks. Review the Section 508 materials for creating accessible Word Documents and PDF's.

License and Public Availability

  1. The Work will be published under CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommerical), assigned a DOI, and indexed by major search engines (e.g., Google).
  2. To protect confidentiality and proprietary interests, the thesis must not include sensitive or proprietary information, including any patient Protected Health Information (PHI). All such material must be redacted prior to submission.

Embargo

  1. The full text of the Work will be embargoed for five years from the date publication rights are granted.
  2. A request for early release of the full Work may be granted only with the explicit, written approval of the thesis advisor (documented on the program’s submission-approval form).
  3. Regardless of embargo status, the Work’s title, abstract, acknowledgments, and metadata will be available immediately upon acceptance.

Rights and Permissions

Before submitting a paper to the repository, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared.

  1. The work should not infringe any copyright, violate any proprietary rights, contain libelous matter, or invade the privacy of any person or third party.
  2. You retain the copyright to your paper and grant us the nonexclusive right to publish this material, meaning that you may also publish it elsewhere.