Dissertation and Thesis Handbook
PUBLISHING YOUR DISSERTATION OR THESIS (ProQuest)
"Publishing" or "microfilming" is now part of the online e-dissertation submission process. When released to ProQuest, your PDF is simultaneously delivered to Paley Library. You do not have to do anything for this to happen; the Graduate School will handle it while processing what you upload to our ETD site (http://dissertations.umi.com/temple/). Your authorization is part of the application for graduation handled at your school/college.
Publishing the work through ProQuest and making it available through both ProQuest and Paley Library are Temple University's means of making your research accessible to the wider academic community. This is one condition of the university's awarding the doctorate and some master's degrees. Therefore, embargoes and abstract-only publication are largely disallowed; any exceptions, and they are rare, must be requested through and approved by the Graduate School.
The copyright fee (currently $55) is optional in that you can choose not to copyright. If you are copyrighting, then you handle the details through ProQuest in our e-dissertation site (http://dissertations.umi.com/temple/). Be sure to include a copyright notification page "ii" in your dissertation. (See Copyright Page for the proper format).
If you wish to include copyrighted material—a journal article, a survey, a testing instrument, a questionnaire, a table, anything exceeding the right of "Fair Use"—you MUST obtain the copyright holder's written permission for its inclusion and for its subsequent distribution by ProQuest as part of your dissertation. For sample wording of a copyright permission letter, see SECTION G (G1). You'll need to scan it in as appendix material to your e-dissertation.
Purchasing the right to use an instrument does NOT give you permission to include it in your dissertation. In order to include it, you must obtain written permission specifically stating that the instrument may be reproduced and distributed by ProQuest as part of your dissertation. ProQuest will not publish without it and publication is integral to award of the doctorate If the copyright owner denies permission, the material may NOT be included in your dissertation. You are solely responsible if you violate copyright law; the University and ProQuest will not be held liable. (See SECTION G (G2) for a page showing the language you can use in your appendix in lieu of including the copyrighted material.)
For information on reproducing copyrighted material, please refer to Copyright Law and the Doctoral
Dissertation: Guidelines to Your Legal Rights & Responsibilities by
Kenneth D. Crews.