Deposit your thesis
Service provided
- Your thesis will be deposited in eSpace.
- eSpace is a repository of CDU research including digitised theses by CDU postgraduate research students.
- Online access to full text versions of PhD, Masters and selected Honours theses are in the CDU Library Special and Theses community collections area.
- eSpace will provide worldwide access to your research with harvesting by ARO, ADT and Google Scholar.
How it works
To have an item displayed in the eSpace thesis collection the author must:
Complete the Deposit Agreement form upon lodgement of your thesis to the Research Office.
Lodgement of your thesis should include:
- Supplying an electronic copy of your thesis on CDROM or emailing it to Digitisation and;
- Submitting a bound version of your thesis to the Research Office - submitted theses will be sent to the Library for cataloguing and Digitisation.
Preservation Information
Electronic theses
- If you have supplied an electronic copy as a PDF, it is preferable to save the PDF document with PDF/A file format which is a format for longterm archival of documents. We do not recommend encryption.
- We will also accept electronic copies in Word format.
Print theses
- CDU Library is digitising print theses. Theses are scanned and digitally converted into an archival format for better longterm preservation. This process could slightly alter the appearance of your original submitted thesis.
- If you have previously submitted a print or electronic thesis and would like it digitised in eSpace please fill in the Deposit your thesis form.
Copyright and exemptions
Third-party copyright
- To be able to display the thesis online the thesis must have all third-party copyright content cleared by the owner of the copyright.
- Third party is material in which the copyright is owned by someone else. That means copyright is not owned by yourself or the University.
- Have you received permission to use this content in the online environment?
- For more information on copyright refer to Copyright@CDU.
Exemption from depositing a thesis
- If your thesis contains culturally or commercially sensitive content that prevent your thesis from being publicly displayed it can be stored with restricted access.
- Inclusion of theses is at the discretion of CDU Library staff.
Contacts
- Phone:08 8946 6372
- Email:digitisation@cdu.edu.au
