Digitised dissertations

This information is intended for GCU teaching staff. If you are a student looking for information about accessing digitised dissertations, you can find this in our Dissertation and honours project guide.

The Library provides a service to host digitised dissertations online and on GCULearn. The service is intended to showcase exemplary dissertations. The following steps outline the process that academic departments should follow before submitting dissertations to the Library for hosting on GCULearn.

• Departments must ensure there is no business sensitive material or personal data included in the selected dissertation and that the dissertation has been passed through Turnitin.
• Departments must ensure the student owner of the dissertation signs a GCU library deposit declaration for projects and dissertations‌ authorising the Library to make their dissertation available.
• Department staff members should send completed deposit declaration forms to librarysystems@gcu.ac.uk. We require that forms are forwarded to this email address by academic staff (rather than by students directly) as this represents departmental confirmation that the dissertation is considered to be exemplary. Please note we cannot make dissertations available without a signed and completed form.
• The Library Systems team will then provide temporary access to a Library SharePoint folder, in which GCU academic staff can deposit exemplar dissertations (PDF file format). Once dissertation files have been added to the SharePoint folder, temporary access will be disabled

When the Library has received the completed deposit declaration form from the department, and the dissertation (in PDF format, and via SharePoint folder), we will then transfer the file to GCULearn. The Library will then add a direct link to the digitised dissertation to a designated resource list within Leganto.

Please note that as defined by the University’s Generic Retention Schedule, undergraduate and masters dissertations made available on GCULearn will be retained for three years only. Records retention schedules can be obtained from the Information Compliance Team.

At present dissertations are not accessible using the Discover search. However, you can browse the titles available on GCULearn.

If you require any further assistance or guidance in submitting a dissertation for hosting on GCULearn please contact librarysystems@gcu.ac.uk.