Additional Information on TSpace and how to submit your own thesis to the TSpace IDS Senior Thesis Collection is provided below.​

Background

• TSpace is a free open access research repository meant to preserve and disseminate the scholarly record of the University of Toronto community.
• TSpace provides an online space to showcase and share electronic copies of student research papers/projects and generates a permanent URL that can be used to cite and share the work, add it to CV, etc.
• TSpace is full text searchable and well indexed in external search engines such as Google, Google Scholar, etc.
• All TSpace submissions must adhere to the TSpace Policies and Guidelines – including permanency, openness, copyright compliance, etc.

Licensing and copyright considerations

• When submitting to TSpace, authors do not transfer their copyright over, but rather accept the TSpace non-exclusive license that allows TSpace to reproduce and distribute the work.
• Author should determine if they intend to turn their submission into a journal article for publication.
• It is not always clear if research published in a repository would no longer be considered an "original" journal submission as required by most journals.
• Different journals have different policies on whether to accept a manuscript based on a previously openly available paper. Some may require substantial modification or for the original to be made temporarily non-public (embargoed) until after publication. Most journals don’t have clear policies, but some are available on this MIT list. 

If you intend to publish in a journal (or uncertain whether will publish):

• Check the journal’s policies on whether having the paper openly available in the repository may become an obstacle for consideration of your manuscript. See whether the journal’s policy is on this MIT list, on journal’s website, or contact the editors.
• If the journal requires that the original be made temporarily non-public (embargoed) until after publication, you can add an Embargo in TSpace (step 3 of the submission form) – select the date on which your submission should become open.

If there is no intention to publish in a journal:

• The repository itself is a way to "publish" research online. 
• Each submission will receive a permanent URL that can be used for sharing and citing the research and including it in CVs and on websites.
• Unlike many journal publishers, TSpace does not require copyright transfer, and therefore authors are free to reuse their works and/or assign Creative Commons license that outlines permission for using and re-using their research.

Submission process

To submit material to the IDS Senior Student Theses collection, please follow the steps and Student Research in TSpace guide with these adjustments.

• Step 1: Skip this step and proceed to Step 2.
• Step 2: Complete the form provided with the following responses:
  1. Your first and last name 
  2. Your U of T email address
  3. UTSC Department of Global Development Studies
  4. Yes
  5. IDS Senior Student Theses collection
  6. IDS thesis 
• Step 3: Ensure that you have logged in to TSpace with your UTORid at least once. Doing so will automatically create a TSpace account, thereby allowing us to grant you necessary account authorizations.
• Step 4: TSpace staff will alert you once your request to deposit work to the collection has been processed. 

After receiving authorization, follow the Next Steps listed in the TSpace guide to prepare your work for submission and then deposit your work to TSpace. 

If you have any questions about TSpace, submission process, journal publishing or copyright, don't hesitate to contact the TSpace team at tspace@library.utoronto.ca.