It may take up to 2 business days (M-F, excluding holidays) to receive a response to your question, critique, or ProQuest submission - especially during high-volume times in the quarter.
No. There is no way of making your submitted manuscript "dark." Regardless of whether you submit your manuscript on paper to the Archives, or electronically to ProQuest, your manuscript will eventually be discoverable to researchers once an embargo period clears.
You may request an embargo on your work for up to six years from the deposit date. For more details, please see the Open Access and Embargoes section of the UCI Thesis & Dissertation Formatting Manual: https://guides.lib.uci.edu/gradmanual/oa-embargo.
If you have questions or concerns, please email gradthesis@uci.edu.
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