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 Digitising Dissertations
Author:Atalanta
Date:Wednesday, 24th Jan 2007 11:40
Views:2,988 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Information Issues
URL:http://www.freepint.com/go/b96962

This College wishes to digitise all old dissertations and theses, getting rid of the originals and replacing yards of shelves of crumbling paper with a few discs. We hope.
For the future, we shall get students to sign an agreement either to pass all copyright in their college work to the college, or to share the copyright equally. In future, work will be submitted electronically. It is the past stuff we are worried about.
3 problems here:
1) in the absence of any agreement whatsoever in the past, can we just go ahead and copy these old theses ? Most of the students could not be contacted. We are not going to publish the material.
2) do other colleges insist on retaining entire or shared rights to the copyright in students' work ?
3) Can anyone with experience of digitising old theses recommend any efficient/cheap/reliable commercial services for doing this ?
Regards Atalanta

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• Digitising Dissertations
This College wishes to digitise all old dissertations and theses, getting rid of the originals and replacing yards of shelves ...
Atalanta 24/01/07 11:40 96962
  • Re: Digitising Dissertations
As usual when it comes to questions of copyright, there are many things to be taken into consideration. (Disclaimer – ...
Malcolm Kendall 02/02/07 16:16 100491
    • Re: Digitising Dissertations
It seems the copyright legislation does not permit copying for purposes of preservation if done to a different medium. ...
Atalanta 07/02/07 17:32 102774
      • Re: Digitising Dissertations
Further to my original post, I’ve consulted a colleague who has a more detailed knowledge of the legislation minutiae than ...
Malcolm Kendall 08/02/07 13:44 103171
        • Re: Digitising Dissertations
If you are right that it would not at present be illegal for us to copy from paper to disc, ...
Atalanta 08/02/07 18:44 103330
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Unfortunately, many of the students who wrote the oldest dissertations are probably dead. I am aware that copyright in unpublished ...
Atalanta 02/02/07 20:29 100601
  • Re: Digitising Dissertations
I'm in a similar situation and have the same sort of concerns. Have you checked out the EThOS project and ...
Sarah Brooks 02/02/07 12:08 100365

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