Q. Can I make a personal research copy of a thesis or dissertation?

Great question! While all copyright decisions should be made by the person doing the copying (or her/his lawyer), making a copy of a dissertation for your research, as you describe it, can constitute “fair use”. For information about copyright, including links to fair use guidelines, please see our copyright libguide.

In addition, many theses and dissertations especially from 1997 to roughly the present can be found by searching Proquest Dissertations & Theses Full Text database. 

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