1. Prepare Your Thesis:
2. Sign a Non-Exclusive License Form: This form grants the Library permission to make your thesis or dissertation available to others. By signing this form, you're allowing the Library to share your work on StFX Scholar, which will make it discoverable to a wider audience on the internet.
3. Online Submission: Use the StFX Undergraduate Thesis Deposit Form, which is available online. This step involves filling out the necessary information and uploading your thesis file and the license form.
Deposit to StFX Scholar: Once you submit through the online form, your work will be deposited into StFX Scholar by the Library. This process may take a few weeks. You will be notified through the email you provided on the form with a link to your thesis once the deposit is completed.
It's important to follow these steps carefully to ensure your thesis is properly submitted. If you have any specific questions or concerns about the submission process, contact kfuller@stfx.ca
Please note: The Angus L. Macdonald Library no longer accepts bound and/or hard-copy theses. If you or your department wishes to bind your thesis, contact Page for Page Thesis Publishing.
Note: The university does not require undergraduate students to deposit their thesis with the Library. However, the Library will deposit any theses at the student's request.
If No, everything I've used is insubstantial or my own work | Yes, but I do not plan to publish any part of my thesis | Yes, and I do plan to publish some or all of the content |
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The fair dealing provisions in sections 29, 29.1, and 29.2 of the Copyright Act permit dealing with a copyright-protected work, without permission from or payment to the copyright owner, for specified purposes.
“Fair dealing” is not defined in the Act. The concept has evolved significantly over the last decades through case law, including at the Supreme Court level through cases such as CCH Canadian v. Law Society of Upper Canada in 2004, and Alberta (Minister of Education) v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), and Society of Composers, 2 Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Bell Canada, both in 2012. These decisions set out a multi-factor analysis for assessing whether a particular copying activity or other dealing falls within the ambit of fair dealing.
For a dealing to be fair, it must pass two broad tests:
The relevance of the factors depends on the context. Sometimes, certain factors will be much more significant than the others. Occasionally other factors, beyond these six, may be relevant. It is not necessarily the case that all six factors need to be satisfied.
See the copyright guide section on user rights for more information.
More information can be found:
Date:
Re: Permission to Use Copyrighted Material in a Undergraduate/Master/Doctoral Thesis
Dear [_____], I am a St. Francis Xavier University student completing my Doctoral / Master’s / Undergraduate thesis entitled “____***_____”.
My thesis will be available in full text on the internet for reference, study and / or copy. Except in situations where a thesis is under embargo or restriction, the electronic version will be accessible through the StFX Institutional repository, and also through web search engines.
For masters and doctoral works only: I will also be granting Library and Archives Canada and ProQuest/UMI a non-exclusive license to reproduce, loan, distribute, or sell single copies of my thesis by any means and in any form or format.
These rights will in no way restrict re-publication of the material in any other form by you or by others authorized by you. I would like permission to allow inclusion of the following material in my thesis: [insert copy or detailed explanation including the title of the article or book, the figure or page numbers of the material used, the journal name, year, volume number or unique publication identifier, the publisher and year]. The material will be attributed through a citation. Please confirm in writing or by email that these arrangements meet with your approval.
Thank you,
[your name]