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How to Submit

  1. Author (and co-authors if applicable) reads and signs TRUSpace's non-exclusive license, which:
    • warrants that you are the copyright owner and have permission to submit your work to TRUSpace
    • attests that the work does not contain material that is libelous, unlawful or violates anyone's right to privacy
    • grants TRU permission to make the work available freely and unaltered and that you receive appropriate acknowledgement
    • allows the TRU Library to migrate the work to a different format, should technology change
  2. Author sends the signed non-exclusive license and the work to be submitted to emay@tru.ca.
  3. The submission to TRUSpace is reviewed (for author eligibility, content layout & format, and for spam) and metadata added to make your work more discoverable in search engines.

After you have successfully defended your thesis:

  1. Author reads and signs TRUSpace's non-exclusive license, which:
    • warrants that you are the copyright owner and have permission to submit your work to TRUSpace
    • attests that the work does not contain material that is libelous, unlawful or violates anyone's right to privacy
    • grants TRU permission to make the work available freely and unaltered and that you recieve appropriate acknowledgement
    • allows the TRU Library to migrate the work to a different format, should technology change
  2. Author sends the signed non-exclusive license and the work to be submitted to the graduate program coordinator, who will send the thesis to the library. Theses and forms can be emailed to Erin May (emay@tru.ca).
  3. The Library adds metadata to make your work more discoverable in search engines.

If you have any questions about this process, consult your thesis supervisor, graduate program coordinator, or the Research and Graduate Studies Office.

 

Important note for students: make sure that your student number (T-ID) is not present on your submission. This is your personal information and should not be shared.

TRUSpace welcomes submission of outstanding examples of student work.  Student work submitted to TRUSpace will be publicly and permanently available worldwide. Students are responsible for the validity and authenticity of their work and require a faculty sponsor who attests that the work is of high caliber and worthy of long-term preservation in TRUSpace.

  1. Author (and co-authors if applicable) reads and signs TRUSpace's non-exclusive license, which:
    • warrants that you are the copyright owner and have permission to submit your work to TRUSpace
    • attests that the work does not contain material that is libelous, unlawful or violates anyone's right to privacy
    • grants TRU permission to make the work available freely and unaltered and that you recieve appropriate acknowledgement
    • allows the TRU Library to migrate the work to a different format, should technology change
  2. Faculty sponsor reads and signs "Sponsorship of Student Work Submitted to TRUSpace" form.
  3. Author sends the signed non-exclusive license, signed Sponsorship of Student Work Submitted to TRUSpace form, and the work to be submitted to emay@tru.ca.
  4. The submission is reviewed and metadata added to make your work more discoverable in search engines.

 

Important note for students: make sure that your student number (T-ID) is not present on your submission. This is your personal information and should not be shared.

There are many Open Educational Resources (OERs) that are created by or adapted by TRU faculty. We encourage these to be submitted to TRUSpace so we can have a collection of all the OERs from TRU.

To submit, fill out the below form and email it to Erin May (emay@tru.ca) along with the files or links to your OER. If you have any questions, please get in touch with Erin.

Have something else for TRUSpace? Send details to the TRUSpace administrator Erin May or book a meeting to discuss the suitability of your materials for the repository: emay@tru.ca.

TRUSpace license

TRU Library needs your permission to add your work to TRUSpace.

When you submit your work, you will be required to read, sign and return to the Library a non-exclusive licence which gives the TRU Library permission to make a copy of your work openly-accessible to the public through TRUSpace, in perpetuity. People will be able to use your work for non-commercial purposes as long as they provide appropriate acknowledgment and do not alter the work in any way.

This licence does not transfer the copyright for the work to the library.

Non-Exclusive License explained

When you deposit work to TRUSpace, you grant TRU rights while protecting your copyright as well. The non-exclusive license explicitly spells out those rights.

Looking at specific sections of the license: