Submitting a Digital Copy of your OC
Honors or Masters Thesis

Honors students are encouraged to upload a final copy of their honors or masters theses to the OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations site.

1. To begin the process of submitting your honors thesis, go to the OhioLINK ETD Submission web page.
2. Please read through the material on the OhioLINK submission webpages carefully. Contact Alan Boyd if anything is unclear.
3. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions are available at the OhioLINK site.
4. There are quite a few OC honors theses to be viewed at the OhioLINK site.
5. When loaded at the OhioLINK site, your thesis will be easily found by Google and other internet search engines, and you'll also have a permanent URL at the OhioLINK site that you can cite in your resume or in other scholarly papers .
6. Adobe PDF format is the normal format used for thesis submission, but the OhioLINK website will give you additional information on other acceptable file formats.
7. There is no requirement that your honors thesis be submitted to UMI (as is often the case for doctoral dissertations). When you get to this question near the end of the submission process, we suggest you select the first option in the UMI permissions box (i.e. " Do not upload my paper to UMI") and ignore the copyright registration check off immediately following.
8. Copyright issues are explained quite fully in during the submission process and in the FAQ; if you have some content within your honors thesis that is not your own creative work (e.g. photographs taken by others) please consult with Alan Boyd, and we'll work through those issues. If you have used materials from the OC Archives in your thesis, please check with Archives staff for permission to post those materials online. The Archives will generally provide a web resolution digital image at no charge and ask you to use the credit line "Photo Courtesy of the Oberlin College Archives" in your thesis.
   
   During the OhioLINK submission process you will be required check off that you agree to the following:

       OhioLINK ETD Center Publication Agreement
   
       I hereby grant to the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school.
   
       I represent and warrant that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights of my thesis and dissertation and its abstract. I warrant that I have obtained written permissions from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that OhioLINK and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured.
   
       I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works (such as articles or books).

Library staff will be notified automatically of your submission. They will review the descriptive portion of your submission and will contact your OC faculty advisor as needed prior to releasing your honors paper on the public OhioLINK site and adding a catalog record to OBIS.

Please send any comments or questions to Alan Boyd, Assoc. Director of Libraries.

Alan Boyd
Associate Director of Libraries
alan.boyd@oberlin.edu
440-775-5015