Exploring ETD Embargo Policies: Survey Results and Practical Guidance for Repository Managers

This poster will present the results of a survey conducted in summer 2024 of university institutional repositories' electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) policies, specifically regarding embargoes. The goal of the survey was to gather examples of policies in order to develop a resource for repository managers who are creating or updating their ETD policies. We developed and distributed a Qualtrics survey with questions for each institution regarding definition of ETDs, embargo availability, length of embargoes, extension options, and more. We asked institutions to submit links to their publicly available ETD policies or share their internal policies if they wished. The results of the survey will be presented along with the resulting policy resource. This poster will be of particular interest to repository managers who have ETD collections or are going to start an ETD collection in the future and would benefit from examples from other institutions.