Looking to deposit your research data?
U of T Dataverse in Borealis is the University of Toronto’s institutional data repository. It is hosted by Borealis, a secure, bilingual, multidisciplinary repository platform that supports discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian research data.
Borealis is supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada, with the University of Toronto operating as the national service provider.
TSpace is a free and secure research repository established by University of Toronto Libraries to disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of the University of Toronto community, including faculty and graduate student research. All items in TSpace are openly accessible, either immediately or after a publisher's embargo period.
| Boost Visibility |
By submitting to TSpace, authors benefit themselves and the research community by increasing the visibility and readership of their work. |
| Enhance Discoverability | Works benefit from priority search engine indexing |
| Ensure Longevity | TSpace uses permanent identifiers—URLs that do not change—ensuring links to your submitted material always work. We also ensure that every file you upload does not degrade or change over time. |
| Meet Funding Requirements | If you receive funding from CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC, you can comply with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy by depositing your publication to TSpace. |
| Keep your Copyright | Authors retain copyright of their work when they submit to TSpace. |
TSpace accepts submissions from members of the University of Toronto community, including faculty, staff, and students with faculty sponsorship.
As a part of the CARL Adoptive Repositories Program, TSpace also accepts submissions from Canadian researchers whose institutions do not have their own repositories.
When you upload your work to TSpace, you retain copyright over it and grant the Library an universal non-exclusive license to distribute and preserve. Our Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office is there to answer your questions on copyright and author rights.
To start publicizing and preserving your research, follow the steps outlined in our getting started guide or contact us.
TSpace has full-text theses and dissertations from 1992 to present. Since November 2009, all graduate students at the University of Toronto are required to submit their theses or dissertations to TSpace. If you are a graduate student looking to deposit your thesis, read the thesis and dissertation section of this guide.
TSpace hosts the Past Exams Collections as a service to students. Previously known as the Old Exams Repository, Past Exams Collections on TSpace contains exams from the past 3 years for the benefit of students.
Exams are made available depending on the department unless faculty members request restrictions. Not all exams are made available.
Please contact us with any questions or comments.
