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Theses deposited in ORA should not infringe copyright or other rights. There are rights held in the thesis of which the author and end users should be aware. Thesis depositors should read the following pages to familiarise themselves with ORA practice, policies and guidance

Copyright in the thesis
Copyright in the thesis usually rests with the author (unless ownership of copyright has been transferred to another individual or body; (if this is the case, please find out what your position is before depositing the thesis in ORA). See the University regulations and Research Services Office for details of copyright and intellectual property rights

Copyright is automatically assigned to you as author of the thesis, you do not have to register. You may wish to indicate that you are the copyright holder by inserting the copyright symbol (©) the name of the copyright holder and the year the thesis was produced. See the UK Intellectual Property Office for more details

Copyright held by a third party and other rights (click here for more details and guidance)
When making an electronic version of your thesis available online you will need to seek permission if you want to include any material where copyright is held by a 3rd party, e.g. extracts from publications such as books or journals, or illustrations such as images, maps, photographs, tables.

Sensitive Content and patient consent Steps to ensure that sensitive information not intended for public release is not inadvertently made freely available on the open Internet.

Restricted access to your thesis (dispensation from consultation or embargo)

ORA non-exclusive license (deposit agreement) for eTheses

Use of the thesis and concerns about plagiarism

 

Take down policy

Every effort has been made to ensure that nothing in the Oxford Research Archive infringes UK law. Should you discover any content in Oxford Research Archive you believe does infringe any law or rights you may possess, please send details to the ORA Service and Development Manager using the ORA Complaints Form (or contact ORA@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the form). See the ORA Selection, Retention, Replacement and Withdrawal Policy and the ORA Notice and Take-down Procedure for full details