Reasons for Embargoing Academic Publications in Institutional Repositories Case study of Theses and Dissertations

"Conclusions ● Embargoes limit the impact and usefulness of research findings; ● Embargoes are ad hoc; ● Embargoes are often established in reaction to publisher requirements or concerns about potential publisher requirements; ● Many HEIs do not have a policy for embargoing TDs in IRs; ● There is a lack of policy standardization in terms of language and embargo circumstances; ● Commercialization is the most common reason for HEIs to allow embargoes...."