By submitting your thesis to the University Libraries' supported platforms, you grant the Libraries the license to archive, preserve, and make your work publicly available. Authors maintain all other rights to copyright for their work and can provide temporary access restrictions through an embargo. This formalizes the deposit process and clarifies usage for the author and the University.
CMU Thesis & Dissertation Deposit Agreement
I grant CMU Libraries on behalf of Carnegie Mellon University the non-exclusive right to distribute my submission ("the Work") on the institutional repository, which will make it publicly available. This agreement aligns with the overall institutional repository deposit agreement.
By depositing my work,
- I grant to Carnegie Mellon University Libraries the perpetual non-exclusive right to reproduce and distribute or display my work.
- I understand that I retain the rights to publish my work elsewhere as I choose.
- I affirm that my submission is my original work and does not infringe or violate any copyrights of others, and that I am the sole owner of the right to my work.
- I understand that it is my obligation to obtain any copyright permissions necessary to publish third-party materials (e.g. images, figures, tables, etc.) used in my work and that I have obtained any needed copyright permissions.
- I understand that once the Work is deposited, it may not be removed or amended without compelling reason.
