No. When you upload your work to TSpace, you retain copyright over it and grant the Library a 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.
Yes! TSpace has full-text theses and dissertations from 1992 to present day. Since November 2009, all graduate students at the University of Toronto are required to submit their theses and/or dissertations to TSpace. If you are a graduate student looking to deposit your thesis, please see our theses and dissertations page.
If you have never registered with or submitted to TSpace, please see our Get Started page.
For step-by-step guidance on preparing and uploading your research, see detailed instructions on our deposit your work page. If you need to comply with CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC open-access funding requirements, we can deposit materials on your behalf. See our assisted deposit service page for more details.
Yes! Please see our assisted deposit service page.
You do not need to wait--If you apply an embargo during the submission process, you may deposit your item immediately. Applying an embargo will hide your item until a specified date, thus ensuring that it will not become publicly available until that date. During the submission process, you will be asked to indicate if and until when you would like to apply an embargo. Your embargo will expire automatically on the date you select, thus making your item publically available. If you would like to embargo an item that is currently public in TSpace, please contact us at tspace@library.utoronto.ca.
Yes! Individual authors or communities may assign a mediator, such as an administrative assistant, departmental secretary or a student to carry out submissions on their behalf. We encourage the authors to familiarize themselves with the conditions of the TSpace non-exclusive distribution license that will be accepted on their behalf by the mediator during submission.
The TSpace team is also currently offering an assisted deposit service for CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC open-access funding requirements. See our assisted deposit service page for further details.
Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis; however, it is certainly possible. Please ask your conference host to contact us at tspace@library.utoronto.ca to discuss opening a collection for your conference or event. If a collection already exists, please simply fill out the authorization to submit form.
TSpace is intended to be a permanent repository. Withdrawal requests are considered on a case-by-case basis in accordance with TSpace's Withdraw and Modification Policy by contacting us at tspace@library.utoronto.ca.
For a number of reasons! See our About TSpace page and TSpace Info Series for answers.
TSpace accepts scholarly, research, and pedagogical materials authored, produced, or sponsored by U of T faculty. For details see the TSpace policies' Content Guidelines and Format Support sections.
We recommend adding the full citation and DOI of the published article to the first page/cover sheet of your manuscript so that the final version can be cited. You may also include this information in the "description" field during the submission process.
A copy sheet template is available for download on our help page.
Copyright is never transferred to TSpace! If the item has been published in a journal, then the publisher likely holds copyright. If the item is unpublished, then the author holds copyright.
By submitting to TSpace, the author accepts a non-exclusive license that allows TSpace to reproduce and distribute the author's item. This license only gives TSpace the permission to distribute the item, and it does not authorize others to distribute it further.
Read more on copyright and licensing in our TSpace Info Series: Who Holds Copyright.
See our TSpace Info Series guides for materials you can distribute and re-use or contact us at tspace@library.utoronto.ca with specific questions or to schedule a meeting.
Please see our theses and dissertations page for details.
You may encounter items in TSpace that are temporarily unavailable due to a publisher’s or author’s embargo.
If you encounter barriers due to the compatibility of TSpace materials with screen readers or other assistive technology, we will work to provide a suitable alternate format. Please note that we can only provide alternate formats for non-embargoed items. To learn more, visit our accessibility page.
TSpace is organized hierarchically in a way that mimics the structure of the University of Toronto itself
TSpace has complete full text coverage of University of Toronto theses from November 2009 onward, when electronic thesis submission became a part of graduation requirements. Many older theses are also available. However, the coverage of earlier years is not complete.
Use 'Advanced Search' to restrict your search to the School of Graduate Studies. To limit your search to either Doctoral or Master thesis collection, click on the collection drop down again and make your selection. You can further filter within search results by department, title, author, subject, or date issued.
If you are not finding a University of Toronto thesis in TSpace, try searching in other sources, such as:
For instructions on finding, borrowing, and producing theses, see the Theses & Dissertations library guide.
Cite TSpace items in accordance with your preferred citation style and item type. Refer to the Citing Sources / Create Your Bibliography libguide for more information.
For articles that were previously published in a journal, always cite the published version, so the author(s) will receive recognition through services that track citation counts, e.g. Scopus. If you need to cite the page number of a manuscript in TSpace because you cannot access the published version, then cite the TSpace version in addition to the published version.
The following are examples of how to cite the two different versions.
Cite TSpace items in accordance with your preferred citation style. Refer to the Citing Sources / Create Your Bibliography libguide for more information.
The following are some examples of how to cite theses found in TSpace:
APA:
Tajdaran, K. (2015). Enhancement of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration with Controlled Release of Glial Cell Line-derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) (Master’s Thesis, University of Toronto). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/74747
MLA:
Tajdaran, Kasra. “Enhancement of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration with Controlled Release of Glial Cell Line-derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF).” Master's Thesis, http://hdl.handle.net/1807/74747
Chicago:
Tajdaran, Kasra. “Enhancement of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration with Controlled Release of Glial Cell Line-derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF).” Master’s Thesis, University of Toronto, 2015. TSpace (http://hdl.handle.net/1807/74747)
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