Honors College - Metadata Form

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Dear Honors student:

Please use this form to describe your Honors thesis. The information you provide will be used to describe your thesis when it is added to Open AIR, Appalachian State University's institutional repository.

For questions, please contact the Honors College at honors@appstate.edu. For questions about Open AIR or metadata, please contact the Metadata Librarian: Ashlea Green, greenam7@appstate.edu

Email *

Record my email address with my response

Your full name: *

Your email address *

I am a ___. You can select both options if you are a Departmental Honors student also graduating with University Honors. *

University Honors student

Departmental Honors student

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To help us understand your process, please share whether and how you used generative AI in developing your thesis. Examples might include idea generation, editing support, coding assistance, or creative exploration.

Name of degree (e.g., Bachelor of Science) *

Major (e.g., Outdoor Experiential Education) *

Department (Select one from below.) *

Your College or School (Select all that apply.) *

Submission term *

Title of your thesis/dissertation *

Abstract/Description *

Keywords (please separate with a comma) *

Full name of your thesis/dissertation advisor *

What is the primary language of the work? If more than one language, please separate languages by a comma. For example: English, Spanish

About licenses. When you deposit your work in OpenAIR, you have the opportunity to attach a Creative Commons license to your submission. Creative Commons licenses are a standardized tool to grant copyright permission to others so they can use your work in certain ways, such as for non-commercial, commercial, or educational purposes. Learn more about the six different types of Creative Commons licenses HERE. Some popular choices include the CC-BY, CC BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, and CC-BY-NC-ND.

Creative Commons licenses may increase the visibility of your work. However, you are NOT required to select a Creative Commons license with your OpenAIR submission. Please also note: CC licenses cannot be revoked—this means that once you apply a CC license to your material, anyone who receives it may rely on that license for as long as the material is protected by copyright, even if you later stop distributing it. If you choose not to select a CC license, then select “N/A” or (“not applicable”) in the options below. By choosing “N/A,” OpenAIR administrators will assign a default status to your work, which is an “In Copyright” Rights Statement. Rights Statements are not licenses and will not affect your copyright rights or others’ ability to use your work without your permission.

If your thesis and dissertation contains content that has already been accepted for publication in a journal / other publication venue or if you plan to submit part or all of your work to a journal / other publication venue at some point in the future, please consider embargoing your work in OpenAIR. It is important to check with the publisher’s policies on self-archiving and prior publication before you submit your work to OpenAIR. While many journals accept pre-peer review excerpts from theses and dissertations, some journals may consider this practice a “prior publication,” which could jeopardize your ability to later publish in a journal.

Please contact Agnes Gambill at gambillab@appstate.edu for guidance.

I have read the above section about licenses.

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License. Please choose one of the following options. *

CC-BY

CC BY-NC

CC BY-ND

CC BY-NC-ND

CC BY-SA

CC-BY-NC-SA

N/A (I do not wish to select a Creative Commons license for my OpenAIR submission. By choosing “N/A,” your work will be assigned an “In Copyright” Rights Statement.)

Access Rights. How would you like your thesis or dissertation to be made available in the institutional repository? This choice determines how your thesis will be preserved and whether or when it will be made publicly accessible.

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Open Access. Your thesis will be publicly accessible worldwide immediately after it's added to the repository.

Embargo. Your thesis is hidden from public access for a specified period, usually 6 to 24 months, to protect your options for publication or research opportunities during that period. However, the thesis’s metadata (such as title, abstract, keywords, advisor name, and author name) may still be publicly visible in the repository. At the end of the embargo period, your thesis document is automatically made public. This may be suitable if you’re planning to publish parts of your thesis or your advisor's team is still using the data.

Metadata Only. The thesis is not publicly accessible, but basic descriptive information (such as your name, thesis title, abstract, advisor, department, and keywords) will be publicly displayed in the repository. This option allows your thesis to remain hidden, but key details about it are still visible for citation and academic recognition—and you can choose to make the thesis document (PDF) available later if circumstances change or in response to individual requests for access.

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