Lincoln University Library is a member of the Australasian Digital Theses Program.
This is a collaborative project to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research students at Australian and New Zealand universities.
The advantages of web access to theses include:
- the research has a global audience, and students gain world wide exposure and recognition
- more immediate access to research findings is available
- access is independent of time, place and computer system/platform
- theses are protected from physical damage or loss.
Lincoln University digital theses are preserved in and made available through the Lincoln University Research Archive.
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Deposit Your Thesis
At the conclusion of the examination of your PhD or Masters thesis you must submit a copy in digital format to the Research Archive. Deposit of a digital copy is voluntary for theses examined in 2007 or earlier, but is mandatory for all theses for which examination is completed in 2008 and later.
Even if your Lincoln University thesis was completed some time ago, we encourage you to deposit a digital copy.
The basic steps in the deposit process are:
- obtain permission to use any third party copyright material that is included in your thesis, or remove any such material
- convert your thesis to Adobe PDF format and name the files according to the recommended standard
- deposit the thesis using a web form that asks for information about the thesis, including abstract and keywords. The PDF documents are submitted using the web form.
Please go to the Depositing a Digital Thesis page for more detail and to begin the process.