Electronic Theses and Capstone Projects
Human knowledge advances through collaborative scholarship, either directly or by intuitive leaps based on the work of others. Educational institutions worldwide strive to make their academic achievements accessible to others to promote and enrich this progress.
For this reason, effective July 1, 2012, Bastyr University requires that all students electronically file theses and capstone projects submitted to fulfill requirements for any degree conferred by the University. Students should refer to the University Catalog for information on program thesis and capstone project requirements.
Theses and capstone projects will be made available in full-text, open-access format in one or more electronic systems. Theses will be deposited in the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database, which is available in academic libraries worldwide. Both theses and capstone projects will be deposited in the Bastyr University Institutional Repository (IR), which is available to the University community. Time lines governing the electronic availability of the full text of theses and capstone projects will be set by the individual departments. Theses and capstone projects will be deposited directly following final departmental approval.
Copyright of electronic theses and capstone projects shall be the property of the author. However, the author must, as a condition of a degree award, grant royalty-free permission to the University to reproduce and publicly distribute their thesis or capstone project through the appropriate electronic system and/or the University Library. Both the University’s IR and the Bastyr University Library will maintain an archival electronic copy of all theses and capstone projects.
Prior to publishing a thesis or capstone project in any format, including posting it to a website, the author (i.e., matriculated student) is required to notify their thesis advisor in writing, or, if unavailable, the department chair or dean (in that order).