EES1100 Master of Environmental Science Resource Guide

All graduate students at the University of Toronto are required to submit their thesis or dissertations in electronic format, which will be preserved in TSpace. This is also a good place to submit your final posters for archiving, preserving and access purposes.

SGS provides information on producing your thesis.

A website providing University of Toronto researchers with information and guidance on research data management.

An overview of Canadian government funding agency policies including the policy on research data management.

The objective of this policy is to support Canadian research excellence by promoting sound RDM and data stewardship practices.

The DMP Assistant is a national, online, bilingual data management planning tool developed by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) in collaboration with host institution University of Alberta to assist researchers in preparing data management plans (DMPs). This tool is freely available to all researchers, and develops a DMP through a series of key data management questions, supported by best-practice guidance and examples.

Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, is a bilingual, multi-disciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada. Borealis supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian research data.

Search SHERPA/RoMEO for publisher copyright policies & self-archiving so to help understand your author rights when publishing in a scholarly journal.

Learn about different licenses that you can choose to allow you to share, collaborate, reuse, and remix your scholarly work.

Increasingly, creators of works may have the option to retain their rights when they publish, but may not understand the benefits of retaining some control over their work.

The Canadian Author Addendum to Publication Agreement (updated in 2019) enables authors to secure a more balanced agreement by retaining select rights, such as the rights to reproduce, reuse, and publicly present the articles they publish for non-commercial purposes.

The Author Addendum helps inform you about your copyright as well as how to manage your rights as a journal article author so that your article can be accessed and used as widely as possible.

Research Funders' Open Access Policies
Sherpa Juliet enables researchers and librarians to see funders' conditions for open access publication.

Open access publishing of pre-prints that allows you to disseminate your research and seek peer feedback before final publication. Suitable for Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.

ChemRxiv or 'chem-archive' is a free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. Find current to the field and relevant sources here.