Congratulations on completing your thesis! Theses which have been accepted for the award of a Ph.D. or Master’s degree are held as part of the Library’s collection.
In addition to the information below, please check the Faculty of Graduate Research guidelines for depositing your thesis.
We have guidelines that set out the standard formats for research theses.
If you have your supervisor's approval for a non-standard format, the library will be happy to accept it.
You must supply one print and one electronic copy of the final version of your thesis. You can post it, or bring it in person, to:
Metadata Librarians
Discovery Systems Team
Level 7 (Cotton Building End)
The Library
Victoria University of Wellington
1 Kelburn Parade
Wellington 6012
New Zealand
We will email a receipt to you, your supervisor, and your school administrator when we receive your thesis.
Before depositing your thesis, you will need to complete a permission slip and select where you will deposit the electronic copy. The print copy of your thesis will be catalogued and made available in the Library, regardless of which option you choose. You have the following options:
For more information, see “What is the difference between ResearchArchive and RestrictedArchive?”
If you completed a thesis at Victoria in the past, and are willing to allow us to digitise it and make it available to the public through ResearchArchive, please download and fill out the form below, and email it to Michael Parry, Digital Initiatives Coordinator, or post it to this address:
Digital Initiatives Coordinator
The Library
Victoria University of Wellington
1 Kelburn Parade
P O Box 3438
Wellington 6012
| File | Size |
|---|---|
| Download permission slip for alumni | 91.96 KB |
When depositing your thesis we ask if you have used any third party content. All quotations should be attributed to the source of the quotation with a proper citation that is the standard in your discipline. Other third party content such as maps, images, and so on should also be attributed.
When you are a university student you can often make use of third party content without getting the permission of the author or creator of that content. You can do this because copyright laws permit research uses of third party content in some circumstances. However, when you are no longer a student you may not be able to use that third party content outside of the university setting without the permission of the author or creator. Availability of your thesis in the electronic library is a potential example of where permission might be needed.
In the permission slips we ask you this question about third party content so that both you and the university can be protected from allegations of copyright infringement.
ResearchArchive and RestrictedArchive together comprise the University's Institutional Repository, where digital copies of research output generated by the University community are stored and made available.
ResearchArchive is open to the public, and anyone who is interested may access, read, and download material. The contents of ResearchArchive are regularly harvested and indexed by KRIS, Google Scholar, and Digital New Zealand, among other services.
RestrictedArchive is only accessible to members of the Victoria University community. It must be accessed on campus, and requires a Victoria username and password. Material in RestrictedArchive is not indexed by external search engines, but is listed in the Library Catalogue.
The largest an electronic copy of your thesis can be is 2 gigabytes (2 Gb). Very few theses are anywhere near this large.
However, if your thesis is near this limit or over it, it will have to be split into multiple files—for example, the main chapters in one file and appendices in another. Before splitting your thesis, try to reduce its file size if you can. The larger a file is, the more difficult and expensive it is for people to download and view it.
