Withholding the Thesis from Public Availability (Thesis Embargo/Hold)
The ProQuest/UMI thesis submission site now allows authors to select a 6 month to 2 year embargo/hold on their thesis. ISU, as a public institution, is obliged to make our research available to the public in a timely manner. ISU discourages embargoes and requires students to use this UMI feature with great care. If you are publishing in a journal that does not allow part of your thesis to be sold in a digitized format by UMI, you must submit to the Thesis Office the correspondence or other proof from the publisher that clearly states their exact conditions for your use of the journal papers in your thesis. E-mail correspondence or the publisher's on-line rules or specifications are often sufficient. If you want the Thesis Office to hold/embargo your thesis for 6 months, you and your major professor must fill out and sign a "Hold/Embargo" form and return that to the Thesis Office before graduation, with documentation of the publisher's conditions. The Thesis Office will review each case.
As a simpler alternative, you can put: "Modified from a paper accepted by (or "published in") The Journal of XYZ" and then modify your thesis version of your journal paper so that it is different in some way.
If your thesis concerns a device or process that may be patentable or has contract requirements, you or your major professor should consult with ISU Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (OIPTT), 310 Lab of Mechanics Building, before you submit the final thesis: http://www.techtransfer.iastate.edu/en/about_us/who_we_are/oiptt_isurf.cfm.
