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Schools of Nursing - Participation Policy

Sigma's Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository (Henderson Repository) encourages schools of nursing with accredited programs*, BSN and above, to participate in the Henderson Repository.

There are 3 ways to participate (choose, one, two, or all):

  1. Traditional theses and dissertations
  2. Undergraduate projects and graduate projects (includes DNP capstones, PowerPoint slides, and other classroom assignments of merit)
  3. Individual faculty works (including but not limited to previously unpublished manuscripts, faculty-created learning objects, reports, other educational materials, research, and EBP materials)

1. Traditional (Completed & Defended) Theses and Dissertations

Participation for dissertations and theses dissemination is an easy 2-step process!

1. Schools of nursing simply advise their master's and doctoral level students to submit their defended and finalized papers (see eligible submission section below for details) to one of the following collections in the Graduate Papers, Theses, and Dissertations community:

2. Students visit this information page which contains a link to a form that they should complete: https://www.nursingrepository.org/etd_information/.

Evaluation of Theses and Dissertations -

Submissions to either of the above collections are reputation-based due to the rigor involved in completing formal theses and dissertations. Items will be given a cursory review for general suitability to the collection. The substantive material in each submission will not be reviewed prior to posting. Theses submissions rely solely on the reputation of the academic institution conferring the degree.

Format of Theses and Dissertations -

Paper formats differ according to each academic institution, degree focus, and degree type. All eligible submissions must follow a basic format similar to that set out below. This repository realizes that not all papers can or will include all components, and the headings may be different than those listed, but the basic format is important and any submission that deviates too far from this norm is subject to rejection.

  • Title Page
  • Signature Page or Committee Page (must be blank - do not include the signed pages with the repository submission)
  • Copyright Page
  • Abstract
  • Dedication and/or Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables and/or Figures
  • Supplemental Documentations (exhibits and attachments)
  • References/Bibliography
  • The Body of the Paper:
    • Introduction
    • Synthesis of Evidence and/or Review of Related Literature
    • Research Design and/or Methodology
    • Results or Analysis of Data
    • Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations and/or Discussion

Good news! All citation styles are acceptable to the repository (e.g., APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, Turabian, etc.).

Participating schools of nursing must send their students the following link regarding Henderson Repository policies and submission information. Help us help your students make this a simple and enjoyable experience!
https://www.nursingrepository.org/author_info/

2. Graduate and Undergraduate Projects

Master's level projects and papers (excludes formal theses/dissertations) and Undergraduate papers (BSN or BSN equivalent) may be submitted to a suitable general collection in the Non-Sigma Group Participants community.

Projects in the form of manuscripts (e.g., DNP Capstones) for journal submission are not eligible submissions to this repository due to simultaneous submission publication rules set out by journals and publishers. Many publishers and journals have rules regarding open-access self-archiving by authors, but these rules are subject to change without notice and do not include grandfather clauses to protect the author and the disseminating repository. 

DNP Capstone manuscripts that will not be published in traditional journals may be submitted to the General DNP Capstone Projects collection. These submissions do not undergo peer-review, but will rely on the reputation of the degree granting university.

Evaluation of Projects -

The school program liaison will choose (1) faculty evaluation of materials or (2) reputation-based submissions.

  1. Faculty evaluation requires a department liaison(s). The liaison(s) will be assigned as reviewers in the applicable collection to provide a final evaluation of the material prior to acceptance and posting in the repository.
  2. Reputation-based submissions rely solely on the reputation of the University or College that grants the degree.

Participating schools of nursing must send their students the following link regarding Henderson Repository policies and submission information. Help us help your students make this a simple and enjoyable experience!
https://www.nursingrepository.org/author_info/

3. Faculty Works

Research, EBP, Faculty-created learning objects and other educational materials that are created by faculty members may be submitted to a suitable topical collection in the Independent Submissions community. They will undergo a peer review process.

Previously published materials are not accepted.

Manuscripts that will not be published in journals or that were submitted to a journal and rejected for reasons other than substance may be submitted to the repository through its Independent Submission community topical collections where the submission will undergo peer review.

Collection Creation Policies

All submissions will be located in the Non-Sigma General collections and/or the Independent Submissions collections until participation levels have been achieved. Please refer back to the Group Participation Polices for details.

School of Nursing Visibility and Participation Recognition. Regardless of the repository community and collection where the items are located, informational fields in each item record will capture degree type, degree grantor, year the degree was conferred, and advisor/committee member names. Faculty members should use of the author affiliation field. This allows for program recognition and visibility within the repository. The repository's robust browse, faceted and full-text searching features lets school administrators and repository patrons easily locate student works from a specific academic institution. The repository is indexed in all major search engines, allowing for recognition on a global basis.

* A school or college of nursing must offer a nursing program or programs accredited by a nationally recognized accreditation body such as the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) and/or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or their equivalent for those programs outside of the U.S. and/or the jurisdiction of the two aforementioned accreditation agencies.