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THESIS DEPOSIT DECLARATION AND CHECKLIST

SECTION A: DECLARATION

Please type or print in black ink and complete all applicable fields

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| |Surname: | |First name(s): | | |

| |Student ID: | |ORCID number: | | |

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| |School*: | | |

| |Department: | | |

| |Title of Thesis: | | |

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| |Supervisors: | | |

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| |Sponsorship: |My research was sponsored by | |

| | | |Grant number: | | |

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ACCESS TO MY THESIS: (Please tick or delete where applicable)

The printed copy may be consulted by all users of the library, immediately _____

The electronic copy may be made available to everyone without restriction, including through EThOS (British Library Electronic Theses Online Service), immediately _____ or after ____ years (not more than 5)

Access to the electronic copy of my thesis should be restricted to University of Aberdeen staff and students for a period of _____ years (not more than 5)

My thesis contains confidential information and there should be no access to this thesis in either print or electronic form for a period of ____ years (no more than 5)

NB: A thesis will not be made confidential unless written justification (see Section C), approved by Supervisors and Head of School, is submitted along with the hard copy of the thesis. Please make sure that Section C of this form is completed in order to provide written justification

Please ensure that the access restrictions you have selected are acceptable within the terms of any funding you have received

Signature: Date:

NB: Candidates are advised to consult a supervisor or other member of staff before signing. Candidates should note that any user of their work will be required to sign or agree to a copyright declaration and conform to the provisions of current copyright law

To be completed and returned to: The Information Desk, Floor 1, The Sir Duncan Rice Library (in person) or Cataloguing Unit, Room 106, The SDRL, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3AA (by post)

SECTION B: TERMS OF DEPOSIT

REGULATIONS

Under the University’s regulations governing the submission of theses and dissertations for higher degrees, available at abdn.ac.uk/registry/calendar/postgraduate.php, any thesis (unless restricted) may be:

1. Consulted for research purposes by any user within the University Library, whether that user is a registered staff member or student of the University or a member of the public

2. Made available through the University of Aberdeen institutional repository and be accessible to a wide variety of people and institutions (including automated agents) via the World Wide Web.

A candidate may restrict ALL ACCESS to a thesis both through consultation and by any electronic means only if the Librarian is requested in writing to do so by the Head of School. A copy of the request must accompany the thesis.

Alternatively, a candidate may stipulate a period of time, up to a maximum of five years, during which the print copy of the thesis is available for consultation within the University library, as above, but access to the electronic version is restricted to University of Aberdeen staff and students (via the university repository), or completely withheld.

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN ELECTRONIC THESES DEPOSIT AGREEMENT

Non-exclusive rights

Rights granted to the University of Aberdeen through this agreement are entirely non-exclusive and royalty free. The candidate is free to publish their Thesis in its present version or future versions elsewhere. The candidate agrees that administrators of the University of Aberdeen institutional repository 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.

Deposit in any University of Aberdeen institutional digital repository

The candidate understands that a thesis deposited in the University of Aberdeen institutional repository without restriction will be accessible to a wide variety of people and institutions (including automated agents) via the World Wide Web, e.g. EthOS

The candidate understands that once their thesis is deposited, a citation to the thesis will always remain visible. Removal of the thesis can be made after discussion with the administrators of the University of Aberdeen institutional repository, who shall make best efforts to ensure removal of the thesis from any third party with whom the University has an agreement.

By signing the declaration the candidate agrees as follows:

1. That the candidate is the author or co-author of the thesis and has the authority on behalf of the author or authors to make this agreement and to hereby give the administrators of the University of Aberdeen institutional repository the right to make available the thesis in the way described above

2. That the candidate has exercised reasonable care to ensure that the thesis is original, and does not to the best of their knowledge break any UK law or infringe any third party’s copyright or other Intellectual Property Right

3. The administrators of the University of Aberdeen institutional repository do not hold any obligation to take legal action on behalf of the candidate, or other rights holders, in the event of breach of intellectual property rights, or any other right, in the material deposited

SECTION C: JUSTIFICATION FOR MAKING A THESIS CONFIDENTIAL

|If requesting that the thesis be made confidential please provide justification and expand as necessary |

We agree that this thesis be made confidential for the reasons outlined above for the period specified in Section A

Signature (First supervisor): Date:

Signature (Second supervisor): Date:

Signature (Head of School): Date:

SECTION D: CHECKLIST

Copies provided:

|1. |Print copy (the original complete thesis) |*Yes/No |

|2. |Any accompanying material (audio in WAV format, data compilations in the appropriate format and video in |*Yes/No |

| |AVI or MOV format) in a pocket inside the back cover of the print copy | |

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|3. |Electronic copy (identical to the original complete thesis in a single PDF file) |*Yes/No |

|4. |Accompanying material (audio in WAV format, data compilations in the appropriate format and video in AVI or|*Yes/No |

| |MOV format) with the electronic copy | |

|5. |Publicly available electronic copy (an edited electronic copy of the thesis with all uncleared third party |*Yes/No |

| |copyright material removed) e.g. unless permission has been obtained do not include the publisher’s version| |

| |of published articles. A pre-published version may be acceptable. | |

|6. |Electronic copy of the abstract not exceeding 300 words (an electronic copy identical to the original |*Yes/No |

| |abstract in a single PDF file) | |

|7. |Written justification (Section C), approved by Supervisor and Head of School why there should be no access |*Yes/No |

| |to the thesis for not more than five years | |

*Delete as appropriate

Details of the material removed from the publicly available copy:

Additional descriptive keywords or phrases describing the subject of the thesis:

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Email address (non-university if leaving the institution) in case of queries

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*LIST OF SCHOOLS:

Biological Sciences Business School

Divinity, History and Philosophy Education

Engineering Geosciences

Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture Law

Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition Natural and Computing Sciences

Psychology Social Science

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