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Thesis Deposit Agreement

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Sending in your thesis

Please send the following items to :

1. This form, completed and signed.

2. Theversion of record of your thesis as a PDF file (required)

You have to send the version of record of your thesis. This is the final version as approved by the examiners after any amendments required by the examiner(s) have been agreed as satisfactory.

3. The edited versionof your thesis as a PDF file (may be required)

You should produce an edited version of your thesis if you have had to remove any items owing to copyright issues.

You do not need to deposit a purple hard-bound copy as long as you submit an electronic version of record of your thesis.

Online access to the thesis

Your thesis will be made available via the University's Research Archive (SHURA, An electronic copy of your thesis will also be included in the British Library Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS,

Your thesis will be made available in SHURA under a Creative Commons license. The recommended license is Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative Works (see This means that people are free to copy, distribute or transmit your thesis on the condition that they acknowledge you as the author, that they do not use it for commercial purposes, and that they do not alter, transform or build upon it. This protects your rights whilst encouraging use and distribution of your work.

Once your thesis is on SHURA, a citation to your thesis will always remain visible. However, removal of the full text of your thesis can be made after discussion with Library Services.

The rights that you grant to the University by signing this form are entirely non-exclusive. You are free to publish your thesis in its present version or future versions elsewhere.

About the thesis

Please tick one of the two boxes below:

• the version of record

• the version of record which for copyright reasons cannot be made available - this version will be archived.
• an edited version of my thesis which will be made publicly available. In this version Ihaveremoved third party copyright material where I have not obtained permission to use it, and madesuitable acknowledgement of the original source

If your research is practice-based and your thesis is accompanied by creative outputs/ artefacts or a digital file or set of files as a permanent record of the outputs, please tick one of the two boxes below:

Embargo period

Unless you request otherwise, your thesis will be available online immediately. You can delay electronic access to your thesis for a period of 1 year from the date you signed this form. A record for your thesis will exist in SHURA but no-one will be able to read your thesis until the end of the embargo period.

If you need a longer embargo period, you will have to obtain formal approval from the Head of Research Degrees in your faculty, and send a copy of their approval with this form.

Confidentiality of Thesis period

If you have gained approval from the University Research Degrees Committee (RDC) for a confidentiality period for your thesis, please tick the box below and insert the number of years granted. This means that the content of your thesis is kept confidential in order to protect a patent or because it contains politically or commercially sensitive material.

Dissemination of the thesis via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
You can make your thesis available via the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database where your thesis will sit alongside theses from other leading institutions, including those in the official thesis repository of the US Library of Congress.

If you choose to do this, your thesis will also be indexed in over 30 subject databases in a wide variety of disciplines. This means that your thesis will be discoverable and retrievable by a global audience.

ProQuest offer one-off sales, in various formats, of theses to individuals. A royalty of 10% of individual sales of copies is payable to the author when the accrued royalties reach $25. You can claim these royalties from ProQuest if you wish to do so by contacting directly.

You will retain all your rights as an author. You can contact the University or ProQuest at any time to request removal of your thesis. There are no costs.

Declaration

I hereby agree as follows.

• I am the author of the thesis and/or have the authority on behalf of the author to make this agreement.
• I grant the University the right to make available the thesis in the way described above.
• I am depositing the version of record of my thesis. This is the version on which the examiners based their recommendation for the award of the degree.
• I have exercised reasonable care to ensure that the thesis is original and does not, to the best of my knowledge, break any UK law or infringe any third party's copyright or Intellectual Property Right.
• If the thesis includes third party material, I have either sought and obtained permission from copyright holders to include any third party materials in my thesis or I believe that use of third party material is covered under the fair dealing exception of criticism and review.
• Where my use of third party material has required permission, I am depositing an edited version of my thesis for the purposes of online dissemination. This version
• acknowledges where permission has been obtained.
• has removed third party material where permission has not been obtained, and included a reference to the original.
• I understand that the University is not liable in case of copyright infringement in the thesis.
• I understand that the University does not hold any obligation to take legal action should my intellectual property rights be infringed by anyone who has obtained a copy of the thesis via SHURA or any third party with whom the University has an agreement.
• I understand that Library Services may remove the thesis from view without notice for professional, legal or administrative reasons.
• I understand that if I have requested an embargo it is my responsibility to review any pending commercial, Intellectual Property Right, or confidentiality issues affecting online availability of the thesis at the end of the embargo period, and to request an extension via the Faculty Head of Research Degrees if this is required.

• I agree that the University or any third party with whom the University has an agreement to do so may, without changing content, translate the thesis to any medium or format for the purpose of future preservation and accessibility.