Policies for Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
Who Can Submit
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports only publishes materials about work conducted under the auspices of Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports. For additional information, please contact the Graduate School (gradschool@mtu.edu).
Review
The Graduate School will review submissions for formatting within six business days of a complete submission. Please check your Degree Progress Checklist or Academic Audit for your current status.
Students do not have an opportunity to approve papers they have submitted prior to them becoming publicly available on the site; therefore, please be sure that the paper is ready for public distribution.
Submissions will be released to the repository after all degrees are granted for the semester. Grace period submissions are published at the beginning of the semester, pending verification of all other degree requirements.
Rights and Permissions
Before submitting a paper to the repository, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared. You retain the copyright to your paper and grant us the nonexclusive right to publish this material, meaning that you may also publish it elsewhere.
In the event that changes to the document, metadata, or access are required after the document has been accepted, please review the options and types of changes available. Please note that changing a Creative Commons license after your work has been published is problematic, as these licenses are not revocable. Read more about this on the Creative Commons FAQ.
It is necessary that you agree to the terms of publishing in the repository listed in the author agreement. The text of the agreement is below for your reference:
I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and included in my thesis, report, or dissertation a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third-party copyrighted matter to be included in my dissertation, thesis, or report, allowing archiving, accessibility, and licensing as specified below. For guidance on how and when to obtain permission, see Section 5.3 of The Guide to Preparing a Dissertation, Thesis, or Report at Michigan Technological University.
I hereby grant to Michigan Technological University and its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible my dissertation, thesis, or report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I also grant to the J. Robert Van Pelt and John and Ruanne and Opie Library the right to make copies of my work for off-campus interlibrary loan requesters or to replace a lost copy of the published work in accordance with U.S. Copyright Law. I retain all ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, report, or dissertation, except to the extent that it contains proprietary information related to inventions or computer software as provided by MTU Operating Procedures Manual Sec. 11.1.
I hereby certify that the work presented in this document is original. To ensure originality, I have analyzed the document using plagiarism detection software or other methods and have corrected the document accordingly.