Making your thesis available online

Copyright ownership of your thesis

As author, you will own the copyright for your thesis, unless you have agreed to transfer or assign copyright to a funder or sponsor.

If any part of your thesis is published, the necessary elements of the copyright must be retained, so as to enable the final thesis to be made openly accessible online through WIRE (Wolverhampton Intellectual Repository and E-Theses).

Making your thesis available online

In accordance with the Open Access Publication Policy, all e-theses made publically available in WIRE will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Non-Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND) licence which will allow others to download and share your work  as long as they credit you, but does not permit the work to be changed in any way or used commercially. If a more permissive licence is required, for example, due to funding requirements, this can be requested on deposit.

Your e-thesis will be shared with the British Library’s EThOS service (which increases the visibility of the UK’s doctoral research theses) and will be freely-accessible to readers on the Web through aggregation services such as CORE and Google Scholar. The benefits of your making your e-thesis available online are outlined on our Confidentiality of Doctoral Theses page.