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Your PhD, MPhil, MD(Res) or EngD thesis will be deposited in Spiral, Imperial's open access repository, and made available to the public.

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For further information please see Research Degrees

Preparing your thesis for submission

Copyright

Copyright in other people's work

Seek permission to reproduce extracts from books, articles, images, figures, etc.

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