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Hi all, I’m working with University of Delaware's Art Librarian, Susan Davi, to try to learn more about options for including images in submitted dissertations/theses for Art History (or History, Art, Art Conservation, Material Culture, etc.). At UD, we have a contract with ProQuest and all dissertations/theses are submitted through ProQuest and are online only. It seems that, between ProQuest policies and the information provided to students by individual departments and our Office of Graduate Education, the inclusion of images is highly discouraged (mostly due to copyright fears) and our art history dissertations (and perhaps others) are submitted to ProQuest with the images redacted. UD has an institutional repository which includes dissertations since 2014, but those dissertations are loaded from a direct feed from ProQuest and also do not include images. But what’s an Art History dissertation without images, right? What we’re wondering is - do any of your institutions allow or encourage art history students to keep images in their dissertations? If so, are explicit permissions required for each image or do you cite fair use? Are dissertations with images publicly accessible or institution-only access? Do your students pay for image rights or receive funding to do so? Do students ever seek image consultations with you or someone on staff? Are there written policies in place around this issue at your institution? If your institution is a ProQuest customer and you have an institutional repository, do you have the same version in both places, or is your PQ version different from your institutional repository version? Are you aware of complaints regarding images from your dissertations either in ProQuest or your institutional repository? If so, how are those complaints resolved? Also, has anyone in ARLIS or any group in ARLIS done a survey or collection of information about the topics above? Please respond to me and Susan Davi ([log in to unmask]) offline and we will compile the answers, if that is of interest. -- *Cory Budden, MLIS* *Communications Coordinator* Department of Art History University of Delaware o: 302- 831-1460 Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/udarthistory/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/UDarthistory> | Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/udarthistory/> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~