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Answers to submitting and publishing theses online.
In the text, reference the same as the print thesis. In the bibliography, reference the same as the print thesis also, but add at the end (in the Harvard UTS style): viewed Day Month Year, <URL>.
So for example, in Harvard:
Kerr, A.K. 2009, 'You'll never walk alone: the use of brand equity frameworks to explore the team identification of the "satellite supporter" ', PhD thesis, University of Technology, Sydney, viewed 5 February 2010, <http://hdl.handle.net/2100/887>.
Yes. Submission is strongly encouraged, but it is not compulsory.
You can submit your thesis once you have received official notice that you can graduate from your degree.
This is potentially tricky. If your thesis has multimedia sections, or other hard to digitise sections, we will have to discuss the best way of loading it into the ADT website. It may only be possible to place some of your thesis on the website.
Yes, the standard access restrictions apply. With the permission of the University Graduate School, you can prohibit access to the text of your digitised thesis for up to two years. In addition, you can also restrict access to the thesis to computers within UTS campus only.
Placing a document on the Web counts as 'publishing' it, so explicit permission from the author (that's you!) is needed. Other permissions may also be needed, eg the supervisor's, or there may be copyright images in the thesis. See also the ADT Copyright Page
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Not at present. At UTS thesis authors give the library the right to have a copy in its collection, and to allow people to look at the thesis in the library. The Library is also allowed to make copies of theses for interlibrary loans.
Many Australian universities, including UTS, are exploring the idea of making it compulsory to submit a digital copy of all theses, and for authors to give the library the right to publish their thesis on the Web when they submit. It is likely that all universities will eventually require a digital copy of all theses to be submitted, and perhaps may not even require a print copy any longer, but this is still some way off at UTS.
No. All the major publishers have acknowledged that publishing a thesis as a whole should not exclude sections of it being published as journal articles.
No. Of course, plagiarism is always a concern, and publishing any document in print or online will give increased access to potential plagiarists. However, plagiarism will be also easier to detect (and prove) due to wider familiarity with the contents.
Most analyses show that the overall effect of electronic publishing is to discourage plagiarism. Plagiarism from a printed thesis available only in a single library is often very hard to detect since only the author and supervisor are usually familiar with it.
Start at the ADT Digital Collections page. There is also information at the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and a Bibliography on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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