The Curtin Theses Collection holds the successfully completed theses of Curtin Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students. This comprises Doctorate and Master by Research awards. Masters by Coursework and Honours theses may be held by the enrolling Schools.
The collection contains over 5,200 records, about 95% of which are open access.
Up to 2012, Curtin HDR theses were maintained in print form. You can search for print theses in the Curtin Library Catalogue. If you have a print theses with Curtin University and you wish for it to be digitised and made open access, please contact CURATE@curtin.edu.au.
Prior to being approved to graduate, HDR students are required to deposit two copies of their thesis to the University Library. The public version will be made openly available in CURATE.
HDR students should familiarise themselves with essential resources related to thesis preparation, including information on plagiarism and copyright.
For detailed instructions on how to deposit your thesis to the University Library, refer to the Guidelines for Deposit of Final Thesis under Thesis Submission on the HDR forms, guidelines and policies page.
Refer to Formatting your thesis for guidance on how to format your thesis.
In writing your thesis, you may have incorporated material for which you do not own the copyright, and this could include your own published work if you have transferred your copyright to the publisher.
Before depositing your thesis to CURATE you must obtain permission from the copyright owner to re-use such material. For guidance on copyright requirements, refer to Copyright for HDR students.
If you have not been able to gain permission, redact the third party copyright material from the public version of your thesis prior to depositing to CURATE. Refer to the Guidelines for Deposit of Final Thesis under Thesis Submission for more information.
It is the responsibility of HDR students to ensure content in their thesis does not breach copyright legislation if made openly available in CURATE.
The University understands that sometimes it is appropriate to prevent immediate public access to the full text of a thesis. This is called an embargo. An embargo may be used when a thesis includes material or intellectual property which is sensitive, or to faciliate publishing.
HDR students considering placing an embargo on their thesis should talk with their Supervisor or contact the Graduate Research School.
Refer to Guidelines for Deposit of Final Thesis under Thesis Submission for further information on thesis embargo requests.
As per the Curtin Open Scholarship Policy, researchers can deposit published research articles into CURATE, including in the form of a thesis by compilation. It may be that a version of the article called the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is used. Below is a list of publisher summaries for HDR students wishing to reproduce their own published article in their thesis and to make that thesis openly available in CURATE. For more information refer to Including your research papers in your thesis on the Copyright at Curtin website.
For publishers not listed below, check the publisher’s website or contact Library Copyright Team.
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