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Under the Open Access Policy adopted by Academic Council in 2010, all Duke faculty are expected to deposit scholarly articles they publish in peer reviewed journals, and to grant Duke the ability to make them freely available via an online repository (see Appendix P of the Faculty Handbook for details). Authors may request a waiver to opt-out of this policy or may set an embargo preventing open access until a defined date. Faculty may request assistance and advice on deposit, copyright questions relating to it, and other issues such as publisher contracts by contacting scholarworks@duke.edu
Duke authors are encouraged to make all of their scholarly publications available for open access, either via Duke’s repository or via other appropriate open access repositories (such as PubMed Central, arXiv, etc.) or openaccess journals (such as PLoS or Open Library of the Humanities).
The Graduate School requires that all students earning PhD and masters’ degrees submit their final dissertations and masters’ papers electronically.