Submission Guidelines for Radiologic Sciences

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 Radiologic Sciences 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 School of Health Professions.
  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 institutional training on 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.

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.

Contact the Research Medical Library if you have questions about these submission guidelines.