For Supervisors

Help is available for supervisors on the Oxford Learning Institute website

OUCS provides training in using MSWord for long documents such as theses

See the thesis workflow diagram which describes the thesis processes up to submission

The summary guidance table provides an overview of procedures and sources of information 

CHECKLIST for supervisors:

  1. Check which of your students is required to (D.Phil., M.Litt., or M.Sc.(by Research)) or is invited to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA
  2. Direct your students to this ORA Help & Information Oxford e-theses website so they can familiarise themselves with copyright and other issues associated with e-theses
  3. Encourage students to gather copyright permissions as they compile materials for inclusion in their thesis. Students may find the 'Record of permissions' template helpful.
  4. Ensure students are aware of any rights associated with their work which may affect the dissemination of their thesis via the Internet (eg commercial sponsors, forthcoming patents). Contact Research Services if you have any questions.
  5. Ensure students are aware of any material in the thesis which could be identified as data from, or description of, an individual participant who had not given consent to such information being made publicly available or other material that might form 'sensitive' content.
  6. If your students are publishing articles as part of their research programme which they may later wish to include in their thesis, consider requesting that the publisher permit use of the article within the thesis for inclusion in ORA open access archive. The student may choose to amend a copyright transfer agreement (CTA) before signing (it is advised that authors read CTAs carefully before signing). See the SHERPA/Romeo website for summaries of journal publishers' policies for deposit in repositories like ORA.

Oxford e-thesis are available electronically:

  • Directly via ORA
  • Via the Bodleian Libraries' SOLO service
  • Discovered via Google and other search engines
  • Index to Theses (details with abstracts and links to full text where possible)

Please contact ORA staff should you require any help