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EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. 

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EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. You can join the movement and add your theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to your institutional repository. 

EBSCO Open Dissertations extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

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Your ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to your IR.

EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .

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OATD.org provides open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,654,285 theses and dissertations.

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1. Does UC require me to make my thesis/dissertation open access? 2. Can I delay open access to my thesis? 3. I’m working on my thesis/dissertation and I have copyright questions. Where can I find answers? 4. Where can I find UC Theses and Dissertations online?

1. Does UC require me to make my thesis/dissertation open access?

Several UC campuses have established policies requiring open access to the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) written by their graduate students. As of March 25, 2020, there is now a systemwide Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations , indicating that UC “requires theses or dissertations prepared at the University to be (1) deposited into an open access repository, and (2) freely and openly available to the public, subject to a requested delay of access (’embargo’) obtained by the student.”

In accordance with these policies, campuses must ensure that student ETDs are available open access via eScholarship (UC’s open access repository and publishing platform), at no cost to students. By contrast, ProQuest, the world’s largest commercial publisher of ETDs, charges a $95 fee to make an ETD open access. Institutions worldwide have moved toward open access ETD publication because it dramatically increases the visibility and reach of their graduate research.

Policies and procedures for ETD filing, including how to delay public release of an ETD and how long such a delay can last, vary by campus. Learn more :

• UC Berkeley: Dissertation Filing Guidelines (for Doctoral Students) and Thesis Filing Guidelines (for Master’s Students)
• UC Davis: Preparing and Filing Your Thesis or Dissertation
• UC Irvine: Thesis/Dissertation Electronic Submission
• UCLA: File Your Thesis or Dissertation
• UC Merced: Dissertation/Thesis Submission
• UC Riverside: Dissertation and Thesis Submission
• UC San Diego:  Preparing to Graduate
• UCSF: Dissertation and Thesis Guidelines
• UC Santa Barbara:  Filing Your Thesis, Dissertation, or DMA Supporting Document
• UC Santa Cruz: Dissertation and Thesis Guidelines (PDF) from the Graduate Division’s Accessing Forms Online page

2. Can I delay open access to my thesis/dissertation?

Some campuses allow students to elect an embargo period before the public release of their thesis/dissertation; others require approval from graduate advisors or administrators. Visit your local graduate division’s website (linked above) for more information.

In 2013, the American Historical Association released a statement calling for graduate programs to adopt policies for up to a six year embargo for history dissertations. Many scholars found this extreme, and a variety of commentators weighed in (see, e.g., discussions in The Atlantic , The Chronicle of Higher Education , and Inside Higher Ed ).  In addition, a memo from Rosemary Joyce, the Associate Dean of the Graduate Division of UC Berkeley, listed several advantages of releasing a dissertation immediately and added that “the potential disadvantages… remain anecdotal.” In the years since the flurry of writing responding to the AHA statement, the discussion of dissertation embargoes has continued, but the issues have remained largely the same. Thus, this memo from the UC Berkeley graduate dean (2013) remains an excellent summary.

3. I’m working on my thesis/dissertation and I have copyright questions. Where can I find answers?

Students writing theses/dissertations most commonly have questions about their own copyright ownership or the use of other people’s copyrighted materials in their own work.

You automatically own the copyright in your thesis/dissertation   as soon as you create it , regardless of whether you register it or include a copyright page or copyright notice. Most students choose not to register their copyrights, though some choose to do so because they value having their copyright ownership officially and publicly recorded. Getting a copyright registered is required before you can sue someone for infringement.

If you decide to register your copyright, you can do so

• directly, through the Copyright Office website , for $35
• by having ProQuest/UMI contact the Copyright Office on your behalf, for $65.

It is common to incorporate 1) writing you have done for journal articles as part of your dissertation, and 2) parts of your dissertation into articles or books . See, for example, these articles from Wiley and Taylor & Francis giving authors tips on how to successfully turn dissertations into articles, or these pages at Sage , Springer , and Elsevier listing reuse in a thesis or dissertation as a common right of authors. Because this is a well-known practice, and often explicitly allowed in publishers’ contracts with authors, it rarely raises copyright concerns. eScholarship , which hosts over 55,000 UC ETDs, has never received a takedown notice from a publisher based on a complaint that the author’s ETD was too similar to the author’s published work.

Incorporating the works of others in your thesis/dissertation – such as quotations or illustrative images – is often allowed by copyright law. This is the case when the original work isn’t protected by copyright, or if the way you’re using the work would be considered fair use. In some circumstances, however, you will need permission from the copyright holder.  For more information, please consult the Berkeley Library’s guide to Copyright and Publishing Your Dissertation .

For more in depth information about copyright generally, visit the UC Copyright site.

4. Where can I find UC Dissertations and Theses online?

All ten UC campuses make their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) openly accessible to readers around the world. You can view over 55,000 UC ETDs in eScholarship , UC’s open access repository. View ETDs from each campus:

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Search millions of electronic theses and dissertations (etds).

With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. Our goal is to help make their students’ theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible.

This approach extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

Get involved in the EBSCO Open Dissertations project and make your electronic theses and dissertations freely available to researchers everywhere. Please contact Margaret Richter for more information.

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• EBSCO Open Dissertations

OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research.

• E-Theses Online Service (EThOS)

EThOS aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers to further their own research.

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

Online catalog for searching international electronic theses and dissertations. 

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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes theses and dissertations.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.  You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format.

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Ph.D., M.Litt., M.Sc., and Divinity M.Phil. theses approved after 1970 are catalogued in iDiscover, as are M.D. and M.Chir. theses approved after May 2006. Earlier theses are listed in a card catalogue in the Manuscripts Reading Room and are gradually being added to iDiscover.

Since 1 October 2017, all PhD theses are being deposited in electronic form to the University repository Apollo . Many earlier theses are also in the repository, but if they are not yet in digital form it is possible to request access to these theses. There is more information on how to request a copy of a printed thesis further down this page.

Gaining access to electronic copies of theses

The author of a given thesis in Apollo can choose whether their thesis is available to be downloaded, available on request or unavailable. While many of the theses in Apollo are openly available for download, s ome theses in the repository are not open access because they have either been embargoed by the author or because they are unable to be made openly available for copyright or other r easo ns.   For an explanation of the different theses access levels,  see this page .

Open Access theses

Theses that have been made available Open Access can be downloaded from Apollo as a PDF file without any restrictions other than the license under which they have been made available . Just click on the document file in the thesis record to download a copy.

Embargoed theses

Theses with an embargo are shown in Apollo with a padlock icon over the PDF file are not open access but can be requested. If you wish to access the full thesis, click on the padlock icon on the PDF and you will be redirected to the repository’s ‘ Request a Copy ’ function. Requests for embargoed theses will be passed on to the author so they can choose to grant or refuse the request at their discretion.

Controlled theses

Theses under controlled access remain unpublished because they are not made available on the internet via the Apollo repository and as such, the rules for unpublished works in UK copyright law will apply to these theses. Controlled access theses are provided by the University Library in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1998. Theses under controlled access are shown in Apollo with a padlock icon over the PDF file are not open access but can be requested. If you wish to access the full thesis, click on the padlock icon on the PDF and you will be redirected to the repository’s ‘ Request a Copy ’ function. For further information on copying by librarians or archivists see: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/43

If a thesis has been digitised by the Digital Content Unit's image request service in the library it will be deposited in Apollo under controlled access and can be requested via the thesis record in Apollo.

Requesting a copy of a printed thesis

Researchers can order a copy of an unpublished thesis which was deposited in print form through the Library’s  Digital Content Unit via the image request form . Copies of theses may be provided to researchers in accordance with the  law  and in a manner that is common across UK libraries.The law allows us to provide whole copies of unpublished theses to individuals as long as they sign a declaration saying that it is for non-commercial research or private study. The agreement used for access to theses at Cambridge has been drafted using the guidance by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).

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Indexes over 4 million graduate-level electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) freely available from over 1,100 institutions worldwide . Search for keywords from titles, author names, abstracts, subjects, university/publisher and more. Use More search options to limit searches to a particular field, language, and date range. The search results will include links to full-text theses/dissertations residing on the original hosting site, usually the institutional repository of the school that granted the degree.

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Dissertation Repositories, Open Access

How to find dissertations, open access repositories, selected university affiliated, open access repositories.

Use the websites listed below to find freely accessible (open access) dissertations from the United States and other countries.  While all repositories listed here include doctoral dissertations, Master's theses may be available in some cases as well.

Regis College maintains print copies of Regis student theses and dissertations in the Regis Library.  They are not digitized although individual students may have submitted their dissertation to a digital repository.

• American Doctoral Dissertations (EBSCO) A free resource, hosted by EBSCO, this database includes more than 172,000 theses and dissertations in total from 1902 to the present.
• British Library: EThOS, E-theses Online Service EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service. EThOS aims to hold a record for all doctoral theses awarded by all UK universities (institutions). Also available when using Regis Library discovery tool, PowerSearch.
• Digital Commons Network Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 4,264,663 theses and dissertations.
• PQDT Open PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access.
• Theses Canada Theses Canada is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 universities accredited by Universities Canada. It strives to: acquire and preserve theses and dissertations from participating universities; provide free access to Canadian electronic theses and dissertations in the collection.

These digital repositories maintained by various universities enable public access to theses and dissertations.  These are just a select sample; there are many other repositories associated with universities.

• Duke University: Duke Space, Theses and Dissertations
• Harvard University: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) Also available when using Regis Library discovery tool, PowerSearch.
• Johns Hopkins University: DSpace Repository
• Northeastern University: Digital Reposity Service: Theses and Dissertations
• University of Washington: ResearchWorks
• Walden University Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
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Open Access (Free) Database

Of particular use to alumni and the general public: The following three open access dissertation and theses databases are available. Some titles in these databases are citation only, while others provide free access with links to the full text of the dissertation or thesis cited.

• EBSCO's Open Dissertations Database Coverage varies by the source database. Provides open access to over 800,000 dissertations from 26 U.S. universities plus the UK. Created from a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs, it uses the standard EBSCO search interface. Consists primarily of three resources--mostly full text titles from OhioLink's open ETD database (mainly 1999 to date); EThOS: e-theses online service of UK dissertations from the British Library (1800 to date); and citations digitized from UMI's Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. (EBSCO is working on extending this coverage from 1955 to date.)
• PQDT Open A subset of ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. Coverage: mainly 2006 to date. Some earlier titles back to 1990. PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The text, if available, is in PDF format.
• EThOS: E-Theses Online Service (British Library) Coverage: 1800 to date. Also searchable as part of EBSCO's Open Dissertations database . More than 480,000 titles included with links to the full text for over 100,000 dissertations. About EThOS .

Summon and Discipline-Specific Databases Covering Dissertations

Many periodical databases in academic disciplines index dissertations in addition to articles and books: MLA Bibliography , PsycINFO , and EconLit are three well-known examples. In general, one would not expect to find dissertations not already cited in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global in these databases. However, it can be a way to locate dissertations written in a particular discipline rather than searching using specific subject terms in PQD&TG.

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Quantum correlations in nanophotonics: from long-range dipole-dipole interactions to fundamental efficiency limits of coherent energy transfer , Cristian L. Cortes

On the Front Line: Locating Mentorship in the Composition Practicum , Sherri Elaine Craig

Manipulating Light Quality, Light Intensity, and Carbon Dioxide Concentration to Optimize Indoor and Greenhouse Production of Annual Bedding Plant Seedlings , Joshua Ken Craver

Folate Receptor Beta as a Marker of Immunosuppressive Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells and Tumor Associated Macrophages in the Tumor Microenvironment , Gregory Micheal Cresswell

Modeling Anthropogenic Disturbance of Wildlife , Laura E. D'Acunto

The Influence of Biomass Burning Aerosols on Stratocumulus Clouds over the South-East Atlantic , Sampa Das

Producing Nanoscale Laser Spot and its Applications , Anurup Datta

Modeling the Behavioral Landscape Ecology of a Reintroduced Carnivore , Casey C. Day

Hispanic Acculturation and Perceived Discrimination's Impact on Emerging Adult's Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Over Time: A Longitudinal Investigation. , Hector F. De Los Santos

Multidimensional Nonlinear Optical Imaging , Fengyuan Deng

Political Order in the Modernizing Mormon Kingdom, 1887-1896 , Mark Denninghoff

Structure-Function Analysis of a Flavivirus Non-Structural Protein , Michael J. Dibiaso White

Conceptualizing Individual Disaster Resilience: Benchmarking Tools for Individual and Social Coping Capacity for a Disaster Resilient Society , Lindsey J. DiTirro

Behavioral Pharmacology of Alcohol and Legal Psychostimulants , Meridith Tracy Doyle

Characterization of Manifold Microchannel Heat Sinks During Two-Phase Operation , Kevin P. Drummond

Pathology or Neurodiversity?: Cognitive Accessibility and the Rhetorical Construction of ADHD in Higher Education , Samuel James Dunn

Design Methodology for a High-Frequency Transformer in an Isolating DC-DC Converter , Veda Samhitha Duppalli

Understanding the Relation Between Sexual Objectification and Ostracism , Maayan Dvir

Polysulfide Mitigation at the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface: Experiments in Rechargeable Lithium Sulfur Batteries , Arthur D. Dysart

Teacher Identity and the Role of Relational Coaching , Melinda R. Ehmer

Highly Excited States of Small Molecules and Negative Atomic Ions , Matthew T. Eiles

GNSS/INS-Assisted Multi-Camera Mobile Mapping: System Architecture, Modeling, Calibration, and Enhanced Navigation , Magdy Elbahnasawy

Improving Information Alignment and Distributed Coordination for Secure Information Supply Chains , Omar Eldardiry

Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods , Youhan Fang

Plant cell wall modification during tomato processing and its effects on the physical and rheological properties of end products , Xing Fei

Design and Development of Adaptive Intrusion Management for Cyber-Based Systems , Muhamad Felemban

Spin-orbit interaction and electron spin qubits in silicon quantum dots , Rifat Ferdous

Global On-line, Interactive and Simulated Learning Techniques via BIRS , Janet L. Fourman

Enzymatic Inhibition By Lignin During Second Generation Ethanol Production , Antonio Carlos Freitas dos Santos

Metaethical Mooreanism , Jonathan Fuqua

Understanding the adoption, maintenance, diffusion of urban stormwater management practices , Yuling Gao

Acute Effects of Contractile Activity on Skeletal Muscle Exosomes , Ron T. Garner

Plant Mediated Effects on Tritrophic Interactions in the Solanaceae-Hornworm System , Michael A. Garvey

Food Quality Versus Quantity: Consumer's Value Perception and the Influence of Eating Style , Li Ge

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Open Access

Find out how to make your research publications and theses Open Access. For open sharing of research data and other associated outputs, please see our open data page.

What is Open Access?

Open Access (OA) is free, unrestricted online availability of research literature such as peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and monographs. According to the Budapest Open Access Initiative :

"By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited ."

Over the years, the scope of Open Access has expanded beyond traditional publications to include any tangible products arising from research, including early versions of manuscripts ( preprints , theses, data sets , software, patents) and creative works (compositions, literary works, performances), as well as any other outputs supporting the analysis, interpretation and, where applicable, reproducibility of the research findings.

Why Open Access?

Scholarly publications, including journal articles, conference proceedings and monographs, are currently the main avenues to disseminating research, but often people need to pay for access; even then, they are limited in how they can re-use the work.

Open Access to publications aims to remove these barriers. Open Access publications are freely available online, without the need for payment or passwords, and free from most re-use restrictions.

Open Access at Surrey

The Library:

• Supports the deposit of research outputs created by Surrey researchers in the University’s Open Research repository
• Manages funds to cover the costs of Open Access publishing; and has in place a number of publisher agreements that support compliance with funders.

If you have any questions, or need guidance then please email our Open Research team at  [email protected] .

Open Access to your journal publications

The table below shows how you can make your research articles Open Access.

Where can I publish my journal article at no additional cost using one of our current publisher agreements?

The table below lists the journals included in our publishers deals and were article can be published at no additional cost.  

Open Access to monographs and book chapters

Open Access to monographs and edited collections. The term ‘monograph’ is used here to encompass “academic books written on a single subject of an aspect of a subject, typically aimed at, but not restricted to, a scholarly audience” (see OAPEN-UK report ). These books can include both single-authored and multi-authored publications.

Several funders (including UKRI and the Wellcome Trust) require Open Access to monographs deriving from their grants. From January 2024, UKRI requires Open Access to monographs resulting from UKRI-funded projects within 12 months of publication.  For more information see funders’ requirements . At present a researcher publishing a UKRI-funded monograph will be able to claim up to £10,000 inc. VAT per monograph. There is no centralised funding for Open Access monograph funding , so any additional funding required will need to be found by the author. Authors without grant funding are encouraged to use one of the first two options listed below if they cannot find funds themselves and want to publish Open Access.

The community has put together a spreadsheet of publishers and costs, where you can see individual publishers polices and costs available at Open Book Environment (OBE) Dashboard - Google Sheets . A similar resource had also been created by JISC with their Open Access for Books .

Currently there are several business models supporting Open Access monograph publishing:

• Language Science Press  
• Open Book Publishers (£5,000 for funded works) 
• MIT Direct to Open  
• Punctum Books ($6,500 for funded works)
• UCL press  
• Scottish Universities Press
• White Roses Press
• Huddersfield Press
• Bloomsbury  
• Boydell & Brewer  
• Bristol University Press/Policy Press 
• Edinburgh University Press 
• Liverpool University Press 
• Manchester University Press  

Cambridge University Press

• Oxford University Press Springer
• Routledge  
• Brill  
• Library-subsidised and crowdfunding models rely on communities to fund the costs of open monographs. Examples include the Open Library of Humanities  library-subsidy model and the Unglue initiative to make books openly available.

Sharing book chapters in repositories

Some publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave and Taylor and Francis, have policies allowing you to share your book chapter in your University’s repository, usually after an embargo period.

The University strongly encourages you to upload your book chapters in the repository. The Library will check the publisher’s policy for you and make the chapter available where possible.

Open Access to doctoral theses

Doctoral theses are a key outcome of research. We are committed to making past and current doctoral theses Open Access. Since 2015, all doctoral and MPhil students must deposit the final version of their thesis as approved by the examiners in the University’s Open Access repository.

In 2016 the University embarked on a project to make doctoral theses available to the wider public. All of our past theses have now been digitised.

Our doctoral theses can be accessed from the University’s Open Access repository . They can also be found via the British Library’s e-theses online service,  EThOS .

View more information on open access to theses .

Step-by-step guide to Open Access

To meet University, REF and funders' Open Access requirements, you need to know what to do:

• while you are preparing a manuscript for submission
• on submission to the journal
• on acceptance
• Follow the OA diagram (PDF)  for guidance and a checklist before submission, on submission and on acceptance.
• The diagram refers to a journal list . Use the list to find out which journals are supported by OA funds, and for which journals you need to follow the repository route. Please do explore OA publications in journals that do not require additional article process charges (APCs) first and use the funding available via funders (e.g. Wellcome, EU or NIHR where possible) before applying to the Library OA fund. 
• Please always use your University of Surrey email, University of Surrey complete affiliation and your ORCID when submitting an article. 

Open Access repository

Adding your publications to the repository.

We continue to offer a fully-mediated service, where you send us your papers for us to deposit in the University’s Open Access repository . However, now you also have the option to create your own publication records and upload the corresponding author’s accepted manuscript directly in the repository.

• Please make the accepted version of your papers available as soon as you receive the final acceptance communication from your journal 
• Where possible, please also deposit any research data, code and other materials associated with your publications. You can upload your data sets in the repository or create a record indicating where the datasets are stored (e.g. a discipline-specific repository). For more guidance, please see open data .

Option 1: Deposit directly

You are strongly encouraged to upload your publications directly in the repository. The Library will still check copyright and other information before making your paper live.

To deposit directly:

• Visit the Open Research repository
• On the top right corner, select Surrey Researchers sign in (use your university username and password)
• Once logged in, select the 'add content' button (top right corner)
• Select ' asset type.'  By 'asset’ the system means type of research output (for example, article, book etc).
• Check if the output is already in the repository; for example, already added by a co-author. This will save you time and avoid creating duplicates
• Entering an active DOI will automatically populate some fields
• By adding a PDF file, the platform can extract some information from it.

Should you wish to get more familiar with the platform, watch the 5-minute video on how to add a research output to your profile in the repository .

Option 2. Send your publications to the Library for uploading

Email your publications to the Library at [email protected] . For recently accepted papers, please send us the file of the accepted manuscript as soon as the article has been accepted for publication.

Important: The version of the article to upload or send to us must be the accepted manuscript.

Publishing Open Access

Publisher agreements.

Agreements with publishers include 'transitional agreements' and prepayment or discount arrangements. 

Transitional agreements  (also known as 'transformative' or 'read and publish' agreements) are negotiated between institutions/national consortia and publishers to enable a transition from a subscription publishing model to a fully Open Access publishing model, with the aim to make all research Open Access, and published under business models that are transparent and sustainable.

Transitional agreements are:

• Compliant with major funders:  These agreements are strongly supported by many funders, guided by the principles of cOAlitionS
• Efficient:  Having such agreements in place makes it overall easier for you to publish Open Access, as in most cases you no longer need to apply to the Library for an article processing charge (APC). See publishers' list. 
• Cost-effective and transparent:  Access to subscription content and Open Access publishing costs are part of a single deal, set up in ways that substantial savings are made over the course of the transition compared to paying Open Access costs individually. Costs and other information on the progress of the transition are publicly available and monitored.

The Library also has in place prepayment or discount arrangements. These are not transitional, but have been set up to benefit from discount offers and/or more efficient payment processes.

Payment of one-off Open Access publication costs (journals)

The Library manages two budgets to pay Open Access publication costs, known as article processing charges (APCs), for articles not already covered by publisher agreements :

• The UKRI Open Access Fund , allocated to Surrey on a yearly basis, covers eligible publications
• The Library Open Access Fund (please note this is a limited fund) supports publications where the funder does not allocate funds to cover open access costs, or where the research is unfunded.

In these cases, you must submit an article processing charge request form to the Library and receive an approval before you commit to a payment to the publisher.

• Both research-active staff and PGRs at Surrey are eligible for the funds
• The paper must be a peer-reviewed research journal article or conference proceeding. The funds do not cover invited articles, monographs or book chapters
• You should normally be the principal investigator and/or the corresponding author
• You must choose to publish the article under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence . For more information, please see  copyright and licences
• The journal/Open Access option supported must be compliant with your funder’s requirements
• The funds do not cover colour printing or page charges. 

Please contact  [email protected]  if you have any questions.

Payment of one-off Open Access publication costs (Monographs)

The library facilitates applications to the new UKRI Open Monographs Fund.  

More information on how you can request UKRI funding to publish your monographs are available here .

Please note, there is no centralised funding for Open Access monograph funding, so any additional funding required will need to be found by the author. Authors without grant funding are encouraged to use one of the first two options listed below if they cannot find funds themselves and want to publish Open Access.

Our current publisher agreements (including Read and Publish agreements)

To help Surrey research staff and PGRs publish Open Access, the Library holds agreements with several journal publishers. These include Read and Publish agreements, which aim to support a transition to full Open Access.

To be eligible to publish under any of our agreements and access Open Access fundings:

• you must be corresponding author 
• your affiliation must be listed as University of Surrey (please use the full affiliation Name | Department | Faculty | Institution | City | Country)
• you must select a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY) . Publishers may offer you other licences, e.g. CC-BY-NC-ND, but the University only supports CC BY , in line with funders’ requirements.

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Current agreement in place until 31/12/2024 

Eligibility:

• your affiliation must be listed as University of Surrey 
• you must select a CC-BY licence

Article Processing Charge requests: 

• You can publish at no cost in eligible Hybrid and Open Access journals (listed as Group B on our Journal List ) and you don't need to submit an article processing request.

American Physical Society (APS)

• Please use your Surrey email address on submission and select University of Surrey as your affiliation. Your article will automatically qualify for OA. 
• Current agreement in place until 31/12/2025.

Eligibility: 

• you must select a CC-BY licence 
• You can publish at no cost in eligible hybrid journals (listed as Group B on our Journal List ) and you don't need to submit an article processing request.
• For fully open access journals (listed as Group A on our Journal List ) you must submit an article processing charge request . 
• Cambridge University Press – full agreement details and eligible journal list  . 
• Current agreement in place until 31/12/2024.
• Elsevier - Elsevier-UK Institutions Agreement information page   

Institute of Physics

• Institute of Physics Eligible Journals Lists - University of Surrey authors are eligible to publish with no fee in journal titles from Eligible Journals List A, B and D   

John Benjamins Publishing Company

• articles submitted to eligible John Benjamins journal between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024 (if accepted for publication, and regardless of when it is published) 

Microbiology Society

• All the Society’s six journals are covered by our agreement including: Microbiology, Journal of General Virology, Journal of Medical Microbiology, Microbial Genomics, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology and Access Microbiology 
• Open access publishing available at no cost in the following journals: PLOS Complex Systems, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS ONE, PLOS Pathogens 

Portland Press (Biochemical Society)

• You are eligible only if you are the corresponding author. To be eligible, authors must use their University of Surrey email address on submission.
• You do not need to submit an article processing charge form
• Five subscription journals and two full Open Access journals are covered .

Royal College of General Practitioners

• Open access publishing available at no cost in both Royal College of General Practitioners journals: British Journal of General Practice and BJGP Open 

Royal Society of Chemistry

• Royal Society of Chemistry journal finder  
• You can publish Open Access in the majority of Sage’s hybrid (subscription and OA) journals, without incurring an open access fee (article processing charge).
• The agreement covers articles accepted for publication between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024.
• A small number of SAGE hybrid journals are excluded from the offer. A list of these titles is available on the Sage website. Some article types are also excluded, for example; book reviews, commercially sponsored articles. 
• More information on the agreement is available at the SAGE information page  
• You can publish at no cost in eligible journals (listed as Group B on our Journal List ) and you don't need to submit an article processing request.

Springer Nature Compact

Taylor and francis.

• It covers most of the hybrid (subscription and OA) journals in their Social Science and Humanities (SS&H) and Science and Technology (S&T) journal collections. The deal does not cover titles in T&F’s Medicine collection, or any of T&F’s fully Open Access journals.
• The deal provides a capped number of credits per year across participating institutions in the UK and will end when all credits have been used.
• You are eligible only if you are the corresponding author. You must use your University of Surrey email address and list the University of Surrey as their organisation on submission.
• For fully OA journals, you will need to submit an  an  article processing charge form . Please see the Open Access step-by-step process for more details
• Only research articles are covered.
• All fully open access journals and hybrid journals offering Online Open
• You can publish at no cost in eligible  Hybrid and Open Access journals (listed as Group B on our Journal List ) and you don't need to submit an article processing request.
• The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
• Open Access explained! A video from PhD comics
• Paywall: the movie : a film explaining the background of Open Access
• SPARC : the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ)
• Full guide to transitional agreements from JISC
• OpenUK Guide to OA monograph publishing (PDF)
• Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual .

Open Access to research outputs policy

Open access policy companion guide, open access how-to guide.

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Open Access Dissertations

To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Schools, Colleges, and Departments page.

Dissertations from 2013 2013

Evaluation of a Split-Root Nutrition System to Optimize Nutrition of Basil , Ganisher Djurakulovich Abbasov, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences

Effect of Total Awake Time on Drivers' Performance and Evaluation of Training Intervention to Mitigate Effects of Total Awake Time on Drivers' Performance , Abd Malek Abdul Hamid, Mechanical Engineering

The Making of Ras Beirut: A Landscape of Memory for Narratives of Exceptionalism , Maria B. Abunnasr, History

Climate Change Adaptation: A Green Infrastructure Planning Framework for Resilient Urban Regions , Yaser F. Abunnasr, Regional Planning

Understanding the Links Between Human Health and Climate Change: Agricultural Productivity and Allergenic Pollen Production of Timothy Grass(Phleum pratense L.) Under Future Predicted Levels of Carbon Dioxide and Ozone , Jennifer M. Albertine, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences

Mesostructural Characterization and Probabilistic Modeling of the Design Limit States of Parallel Strand Lumber , Alireza Amini, Civil Engineering

Lactic Acid Bacteria Mediated Phenolic Bioactive Modulation From Fruit Systems For Health Benefits , Chandrakant Ankolekar, Food Science

Impact Resistant Glassy Polymers: Pre-Stress And Mode Ii Fracture , Jared Steven Archer, Polymer Science and Engineering

Effect of Colloidal Interactions on Formation of Glasses, Gels, Stable Clusters and Structured Films , Anand Kumar Atmuri, Chemical Engineering

Surface Modification of Food Contact Materials for Processing and Packaging Applications , Jeffrey Alan Barish, Food Science

Scaling Reversible Adhesion in Synthetic and Biological Systems , Michael David Bartlett, Polymer Science and Engineering

Particle-Collector Interactions In Nanoscale Heterogeneous Systems , Marina Bendersky, Chemical Engineering

Tooth Cusp Radius of Curvature as a Dietary Correlate in Primates , Michael Anthony Berthaume, Mechanical Engineering

Quality by Association Across North-South Divides: United States Accreditation of Mexican Institutions of Higher Education , Gerardo Blanco Ramírez, Education (also CAGS)

Solution Assembly of Conjugated Polymers , Felicia Bokel, Polymer Science and Engineering

Birdsong variation as a source of information for migrating common yellowthroats , Rachel Theresa Bolus, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Development of Miniature Full Flow and Model Pipeline Probes for Testing of Box Core Samples of Surficial Seabed Sediments , Adriane G. Boscardin, Civil Engineering

Evaluation of Motor Speech and Intervention Planning for Children with Autism , Marcil J. Boucher, Communication Disorders

A Knife Hidden in Roses: Development and Gender Violence in the Dominican Republic , Cruz Caridad Bueno, Economics

Composing the African Atlantic: Sun Ra, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and the Poetics of African Diasporic Composition , James Gregory Carroll, Afro-American Studies

Query-Time Optimization Techniques for Structured Queries in Information Retrieval , Marc-Allen Cartright, Computer Science

Inhibition of Lung Carcinogenesis by Polymethoxyflavones , Noppawat Charoensinphon, Food Science

Social vulnerability, green infrastructure, urbanization and climate change-induced flooding: A risk assessment for the Charles River watershed, Massachusetts, USA , Chingwen Cheng, Regional Planning

Photo-Reaction of Copolymers with Pendent Benzophenone , Scott Kenneth Christensen, Polymer Science and Engineering

The Security and Privacy Implications of Energy-Proportional Computing , Shane S. Clark, Computer Science

Examination of the Application of Item Response Theory to the Angoff Standard Setting Procedure , Jerome Cody Clauser, Education (also CAGS)

Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Localization of Mitochondrial DNA Polymerases of Trypanosoma brucei , Jeniffer Concepcón-Acevedo, Microbiology

Gravitational Wave Production through Decay of the Inflaton into Intermediary Fields During Slow Roll Inflation , Jessica Lauren Cook, Physics

Application of Item Response Theory Models to the Algorithmic Detection of Shift Errors on Paper and Pencil Tests , Robert Joseph Cook, Education (also CAGS)

Evaluating the Validity of Mcas Scores as an Indicator of Teacher Effectiveness , Jenna M. Copella, Education (also CAGS)

Evaluating the Validity of Accommodations for English Learners through Evidence Based on Response Processes , Katrina Crotts, Education (also CAGS)

Effects of a Classroom-Based Pre-Literacy Intervention for Preschoolers with Communication Disorders , Alyssa Rose Currier, Communication Disorders

Investigation Of The Orientation Dependence On Chiroptical Properties Of Single Molecules , Austin Joseph Cyphersmith, Chemistry

Democratizing the Criminal: Jury Nullification as Exercise of Sovereign Discretion over the Friend-Enemy Distinction , Timothy A. Delaune, Political Science

Ecology and Conservation of the Montane Forest Avian Community in Northeastern North America , William V. DeLuca, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation

Bending, Wrinkling, and Folding of Thin Polymer Film/Elastomer Interfaces , Yuri Ebata, Polymer Science and Engineering

Ecohydrologic Impacts of Climate and Land Use Changes on Watershed Systems: A Multi-Scale Assessment for Policy , Paul A. Ekness, Environmental Conservation

A Non-Asymptotic Approach to the Analysis of Communication Networks: From Error Correcting Codes to Network Properties , Ali Eslami, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Regulation and Action of Skp2 and Rhoa in Cell and Tumor Models: Investigation into the Molecular Mechanisms Responsible for the Aggressive Phenotype of Triplenegative Breast Cancer , Katrina D. Fagan-Solis, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Exploring Privacy and Personalization in Information Retrieval Applications , Henry A. Feild, Computer Science

Investigations of Surface-Tension Effects Due to Small-Scale Complex Boundaries , Jiansheng Feng, Physics

The Unavoidable Threat of Aggregation: Implications for Folding and Function of a β-Rich Protein , Mylene Hazelle Anne Ferrolino, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Writing for Social Action: Affect, Activism, and the Composition Classroom , Sarah Finn, English

Perceptions of Contemporary Effects of Colonialism Among Educational Professionals in Ghana , Kingsley Atterh Fletcher, Education (also CAGS)

Evolving Expert Knowledge Bases: Applications of Crowdsourcing and Serious Gaming to Advance Knowledge Development for Intelligent Tutoring Systems , Mark Floryan, Computer Science

Recovery From Muscle Fatigue in Young and Older Adults: Implications for Physical Function , Stephen A. Foulis, Kinesiology

Accurate and Robust Mechanical Modeling of Proteins , Naomi Fox, Computer Science

The Role of YKL-40 in the Progression of Glioblastoma , Ralph Anthony Francescone, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Twisted Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series Over the Rational Function Field , Holley Ann Friedlander, Mathematics

The Structure of Consciousness , Lowell Keith Friesen, Philosophy

Concept-Based Teaching and Spanish Modality in Heritage Language Learners: A Vygotskyan Approach , Elena Guillermina Garcia Frazier, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics

Data Combination from Multiple Sources Under Measurement Error , Hugo Gasca-Aragon, Mathematics

Use of Flame Cultivation as a Nonchemical Weed Control In Cranberry Cultivation , Katherine M. Ghantous, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences

A Program Evaluation of a Policy Intervention to Increase Racial Diversity in the Sciences and Engineering , Ricardo Leon Gomez Yepes, Education (also CAGS)

Discriminatory Bio-Adhesion Over Nano-Patterned Polymer Brushes , Saugata Gon, Chemical Engineering

Enhanced Detection Strategies Accomplished Through Metal Binding and Miniature Mass Spectrometry , Adam Graichen, Chemistry

The Parsing and Interpretation of Comparatives: More than Meets the Eye , Margaret Ann Grant, Linguistics

An Exploratory Study of Students and Teachers Attitudes Toward Three Types of Bullying: Physical, Verbal and Social Exclusion , Laurice Ann Guillory, Education (also CAGS)

Intellectual Constellations in the Postsocialist Era: Four Essays , Li Gu, Communication

An Investigation of the Efficacy of Direct and Indirect AAC Service Provision via Telepractice , Nerissa Hall, Communication Disorders

Dynamic Modeling of Synthetic Microbial Consortia to Optimize the Co-fermentation of Glucose and Xylose , Timothy Joseph Hanly, Chemical Engineering

In Transition: The Politics of Place-based, Prefigurative Social Movements , Emily Hardt, Political Science

Clustering, Reorientation Dynamics, and Proton Transfer In Glassy Oligomeric Solids , Jacob Allen Harvey, Chemistry

Performance and Signaling in the Green Anole Lizard , Justin P. Henningsen, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Parent Training for Families of Hyperactive Preschool-Aged Children , Sharonne D. Herbert, Psychology

Open Books on Contact Three Orbifolds , Daniel Herr, Mathematics

Treatment of Foundational Reading Skills through Telepractice and Face-to-Face Environments: Single Subject Design , Mary Beth Hetherton, Communication Disorders

The Effect of Vesicle Shape, Line Tension, and Lateral Tension on Membrane-Binding Proteins , Jaime Bosart Hutchison, Physics

Critical Rhetoric in the Age of Neuroscience , Brett Ingram, Communication

Characterizing Distant Galaxies: Spectral Energy Distribution Analysis of X-ray Selected Star Forming Galaxies , Seth Pohatan Johnson, Astronomy

Measurement of the Hydraulic Conductivity of Gravels Using a Laboratory Permeameter and Silty Sands Using Field Testing with Observation Wells , Aaron Judge, Civil Engineering

Muslim Tatar Women's Piety Stories: A Quest for Personal and Social Transformation In Tatarstan (Russia) , Liliya V. Karimova, Communication

Continuity in the Face of Change: Mashantucket Pequot Plant Use From 1675-1800 A.D. , Kimberly Carol Kasper, Anthropology

Pattern Formation in Floating Sheets , Hunter King, Physics

The Plausibility of Moral Error Theories , Casey Alton Knight, Philosophy

"Finding the Proper Sequence": Form and Narrative in the Collage Music of John Zorn , Adam John Kolek, Music

Properties of Singular Schubert Varieties , Jennifer Koonz, Mathematics

"Miss, Miss, I've Got a Story!": Exploring Identity Through a Micro-Ethnographic Analysis of Lunchtime Interactions with Four Somali Third Grade Students , Jean Marie Kosha, Education (also CAGS)

Exploiting Domain Structure in Multiagent Decision-Theoretic Planning and Reasoning , Akshat Kumar, Computer Science

Mission Driven Educational Leadership--Does It Matter? Examining The Correlations Between District Mission and Student Achievement , Brett Michael Kustigian, Education (also CAGS)

Determining Detailed Reaction Kinetics for Nitrogen-and Oxygen-Containing Fuels , Nicole Jeanne Labbe, Chemical Engineering

Systems of Accountability as a Technology of Governmentality: Policy, Preparation, and Inclusive Practice , Denise LaVoie LaFrance, Education (also CAGS)

Theory of Mind and the Ability to Make Emotional Inferences Among Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders , Abigail Leibovitch, Psychology

The Reflexive Scaffold: Metatheatricality, Genre, and Cultural Performance in English Renaissance Drama , Nathaniel C. Leonard, English

Multiscale Modeling of Human Addiction: a Computational Hypothesis for Allostasis and Healing , Yariv Z. Levy, Computer Science

Optimizing Linear Queries Under Differential Privacy , Chao Li, Computer Science

Determination of Arsenic in Water by Potentially Portable Methodology , Chengbei Li, Chemistry

Geochemistry and Inorganic Carbon Transport of a Glacial Till Drumlin at a Road Salt Facility , Houbao Li, Civil Engineering

Conditional Gaussian Fluctuations and Refined Asymptotics of the Spin In the Phase-Coexistence Region , Jingran Li, Mathematics

The Effects of Tools of the Mind on Math and Reading Scores In Kindergarten , Patricia Estrela Mackay, Education (also CAGS)

Characterization of Self-Assembled Functional Polymeric Nanostructures: I. Magnetic Nanostructures from Metallopolymers II. Zwitterionic Polymer Vesicles in Ionic Liquid , Raghavendra Raj Maddikeri, Polymer Science and Engineering

Computer simulation of viral-assembly and translocation , Jyoti Prakash Mahalik, Polymer Science and Engineering

Designing Novel Emulsion Performance by Controlled Hetero-Aggregation of Mixed Biopolymer Systems , Yingyi Mao, Food Science

Contested Subjects: Biopolitics & the Moral Stakes of Social Cohesion in Post-Welfare Italy , Milena Marchesi, Anthropology

Sweating Femininity: Women Athletes, Masculine Culture, and American Inequality from 1930 to the Present , Michella Mary Marino, History

Measuring Proton Spin Polarizabilities with Polarized Compton Scattering , Philippe Paul Martel, Physics

Reca Dynamics & the SOS Response in Escherichia Coli: Cellular Limitation of Inducing Filaments , Shawn Christopher Massoni, Microbiology

Knuckle-Walking Signal in the Manual Phalanges and Metacarpals of the Great Apes (Pan and Gorilla) , Stacey Ann Matarazzo, Anthropology

Particle Behavior on Anisotropically Curved Interfaces , Kathleen McEnnis, Polymer Science and Engineering

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