Publishing Agreement and Guides

Below are PDF versions of the print version of the publishing agreement, as a complete document and with the individual publishing guides included broken into separate documents.

Publishing Guides

Guide 1: Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission
Provides guidance on how to embed fonts and other issues important to preparing your manuscript for submission.

Guide 2: Subject Categories
A complete list of the available UMI subject categories.

Guide 3: Open Access versus Traditional Publishing
More information on the publishing options available to you, and why you might choose one over the other.

Guide 4: Embargoes and Restrictions
Provides guidance on why you may or may not want to put an embargo or sales restriction on your graduate work.

Guides 5 and 6: Copyright and Your Dissertation or Thesis
Provides guidance on avoiding copyright infringement and protecting the copyright you have on your graduate work.

Guide 7: Including Supplementary Digital Materials
Provides guidance on ways to attach supplementary materials such as multimedia to your paper submissions.

The Publishing Agreement

Dissertation Publishing Agreement
This version is specifically directed at authors submitting doctoral dissertations for publishing.

Master's Thesis Publishing Agreement
This version is specifically directed at authors submitting master's theses for publishing.