This guide provides basic copyright information useful for research students when working on their thesis and when planning to publish their work.  

Topics include:

• Copyright Basics
• Creating your own work
• Submitting to Research Repository
• Publishing your work
• Grants, Conferences and Social Media

 This content is licensed to Victoria University under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

At Victoria University we are committed to high impact research and all our research activities are aligned with our 6 research areas through the institutes, centres and research groups. The Library provides help and support with all research areas.

Library services available to researchers:

• in person, via web, live chat, email and phone.
• access to extensive and quality in-house electronic and print information sources as well as special collections.
• access to other collections at Australian universities.
• document request services.
• open access repository for research publications and theses.
• research skills development
• training in areas such as, Endnote and referencing.
• copyright guidance and support.

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Copyright Officer

• Ingrid Unger
• Ingrid.Unger@vu.edu.au

Research Services Librarian

• Cameron Barrie
• Cameron.Barrie@vu.edu.au

Research Support Librarian

• Jessica Cork
• Jessica.Cork@vu.edu.au

College of Arts and Education

• Jennifer Murphy
• Jennifer.Murphy@vu.edu.au 

Victoria University School of Business

• Lou Connell
• Lou.Connell@vu.edu.au

College of Engineering and Science

• Jennifer Murphy
• Jennifer.Murphy@vu.edu.au 

College of Health & Biomedicine

• Suzanne Poliness
• Suzanne.Poliness@vu.edu.au

College of Law & Justice

• Murray Greenway
• Murray.Greenway@vu.edu.au

College of Sport & Exercise Science

• Cameron Barrie
• Cameron.Barrie@vu.edu.au

VU College

• Lou Connell
• Lou.Connell@vu.edu.au