Thesis Collection

Thesis Submission Form

Thesis authors must complete a Thesis Submission Form and forward it to the appropriate faculty supervisor.

To download a copy of the form, please click here. (MS WORD)
Collection, Disclosure, Use, and Reproduction

Master copies of Undergraduate and Graduate theses created by Algoma University students as part of their course-work are deposited in the Arthur A. Wishart Library for the purposes of preserving and making accessible the ongoing record of the research conducted at the university.

Preservation and accessibility entail retaining hard copies of the works and supporting materials (if required) in the Algoma University Archives as well as digital copies of the same in the Institutional Repository for accessibility. This strategy benefits the authors who may wish to cite their research for applications to employment opportunities or future educational opportunities, as well as the university, which maintains its "research memory" over the long-term.

DigitalAlgoma

Students' theses are stored digitally in Algoma University's Institutional Repository, DigitalAlgoma.

To access DigitalAlgoma, please click here.
Procedure

  1. The faculty member(s) responsible for coordinating a departmental thesis program contact the University Librarian to work out deposit details.

  2. The faculty member(s) responsible for coordinating a departmental thesis program would collect each year's theses (and supporting materials if required by that department) and supply these to the University Librarian in a designated folder on the university shared drive; e.g. "Theses_COSC_2010," "Theses_PSYC_2010," "Theses_HIST_2010", etc.

  3. The faculty member(s) would provide the University Librarian with a list of authorship information (e.g. author name, title, class number, etc.) that will comprise the deposit. The author(s) will fill out the Thesis Submission Form and send electronically to the faculty supervisor, who will place these files in the folder with the theses.

  4. Preferred file formats for deposit

    1. Textual

      i. Adobe Portable Document File (.pdf)

    2. Images

      i. Tagged Image File Format (.tiff)
      ii. Portable Network Graphic (.png)

    3. Audio

      i. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 [aka MP3] compatible format (.mp3)
      ii. Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) compatible format

    4. Audio-Visual

      i. MPEG-4 compatible format (e.g. DivX, Xvid, Nero, Quicktime, etc.)
      ii. Advanced Systems Format (i.e. Windows Media Player compatible; e.g.: .asf, .wma, .wmv, .wm)