Institutional Repository (Digital Scholarship@UNLV)

If a Work was created by two or more authors, each co-author has the ability to grant a non-exclusive license (by accepting our Submission Agreement). The Digital Scholarship@UNLV policy is as follows:

• Any co-author can give permission for deposit
• Any co-author can request removal, which will be subject to our Takedown Policy

If a Work was created by two or more student authors as an assignment for a credit-bearing course, each co-author must accept our Submission Agreement.*

• One co-author must submit full metadata and information to the main submission form
• All other co-authors must agree to our Submission Agreement in the Co-Author submission form. If we do not have permission from all co-authors, we cannot upload the work.

*This does not apply to works that were originally created as part of a credit-bearing course and then revised into the Work that is being submitted. It also does not apply to works that are submitted to us directly by the Graduate College.

Please see the Digital Scholarship@UNLV Collection Development Policy page for more.

In 2020, the University Libraries, Graduate College, and the Department of English agreed to add a "Special Collections only" embargo option for graduate students completing an electronic thesis or dissertation (ETD) from the Department of English. This option allows students to submit a physical copy of their ETD to the Graduate College, who will hand deliver it to UNLV Special Collections and forgo our standard embargo procedure which requires students to submit a digital copy that will be made publicly available online after the embargo period expires.

Department of English ETDs that were completed between 2009-2020 only had the option to apply a standard embargo to their work in ProQuest and Digital Scholarship@UNLV. Students who chose this route may now request to permanently remove their work from ProQuest and Digital Scholarship@UNLV and switch to a Special Collections-only embargo, which requires a physical copy of the thesis/dissertation to be delivered to the Graduate College by hand or by mail.

To be eligible for this option, you must:

• Have a UNLV Department of English ETD record in ProQUest and the institutional repository (Digital Scholarship@UNLV). The work must have been for a degree conferred between 2009-2020.
• Fill out a new embargo form with the Graduate College and add the following language to the comments section at the end of the form:
  • "University Libraries, please permanently remove this student's thesis/dissertation, [title], from ProQuest and Digital Scholarship@UNLV. A physical copy of their thesis/dissertation will be delivered to the Graduate College and sent to Special Collections."
• Submit one non-bound copy of your thesis/dissertation on non-acidic paper to the Graduate College (contact the Graduate College for more details).

Once the University Libraries receive confirmation of receipt of the physical thesis or dissertation from the Graduate College, the University Libraries will permanently delete your record from ProQuest and Digital Scholarship@UNLV.

*If your existing embargo is about to expire, we will apply a 6-month courtesy embargo for you to complete all the steps above. It is your responsibility to keep track of the embargo expiration date and re-apply before the expiration date if you need another extension.

If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Graduate College (grad.td@unlv.edu) or the University Libraries Scholarly Communication & Data Services department (digitalscholarship@unlv.edu).

Digital Scholarship@UNLV is intended to be a permanent repository and dissemination tool of scholarly and creative output at UNLV. Requests to remove a Work are seldom granted but will be reviewed by the University Libraries. The decision to grant or deny a takedown request will be determined on a case-by-case basis. If a Work is removed, a full bibliographic citation will remain with a note regarding the removal.

To request removal of a Work, email a link of the Work and reason for the request to digitalscholarship@unlv.edu.

Works without a Creative Commons license

For previously published works (journal articles, book chapters, etc.) for which the publisher retains copyright, permission has been granted (where necessary) to post this material on Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For any use, which exceeds personal use or fair use, permission may be required by the copyright owner of the material.

For previously unpublished scholarly or creative works, the right to download or print any portion of this material is granted by the copyright owner only for personal or educational use. The author/creator retains all proprietary rights, including copyright ownership. Any editing, other reproduction, or other use of this material by any means requires the express written permission of the copyright owner.

Except as provided above, or for any other use that is allowed by fair use (Title 17, §107 U.S.C.), you may not reproduce, republish, post, transmit or distribute any material from this web site in any physical or digital form without the permission of the copyright owner of the material.

If you have questions about permitted uses for any content in this database, please contact digitalscholarship@unlv.edu.

Works with a Creative Commons license

For works posted in Digital Scholarship@UNLV that display a Creative Commons license in their record and/or on the work itself, the use of that work is governed by the terms of the license selected by the content creator.

For more information about Creative Commons licenses, or to license your own work, please visit http://creativecommons.org/choose/.

For information describing the items in Digital Scholarship@UNLV:

• Anyone may access the metadata free of charge.
• The metadata may be re-used in any medium without prior permission for not-for-profit purposes provided the OAI Identifier or a link to the original metadata record are given.
• The metadata must not be re-used in any medium for commercial purposes without formal permission.