Copyright Permission for Full-Text Loading of Theses and Dissertations

The Turfgrass Information File (TGIF), a cooperative project of the United States Golf Association and the Turfgrass Information Center (TIC) at the Michigan State Universities Libraries, has grown to more than 125,000 index entries, making TGIF an indispensable resource for any serious turf-related research. Subscribers to TGIF can utilize the index to identify relevant information and link to available full-text content. One desired enhancement of the system is to provide not only bibliographic citations and abstracts, but increased full text content of items as well. TIC, with your help and support, stands ready to make additional full-text access a reality. We would like to enhance full-text availability by including digital copies of theses and dissertations dealing with turfgrass-related issues. To that end, we are requesting permission to link your thesis and/or dissertation in digital form within TGIF. The TGIF record for this item will include an acknowledgement of your permission and a stable, public URL to your item(s) can be provided. With your help, users will be able to better access your research findings and other turf management literature. Please help us continue to build this online turfgrass library! Thank you for considering permitting your work to be more easily accessible.

Complete and sign the form below and fax to (517) 353-1975 or mail to:

Turfgrass Information Center
Michigan State University
100 Library
East Lansing, MI 48824-1048

Contact Information
First Name: Last Name:
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Thesis/Dissertation Information

Please check one: Master's Thesis    Doctoral Dissertation

My Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation is freely available online already at the following web address:

Thesis/Dissertation Title:

Thesis/Dissertation Year:   University:

Publisher of Thesis/Disseration (if applicable):

I grant Michigan State University (MSU) non-exclusive copyright permission to put the above-named thesis and/or dissertation in digital form on the Turfgrass Information Center website: http://tic.msu.edu, without payment of fee, in perpetuity. I authorize MSU to retain a copy of the aforementioned material for use in research, education, and public service programs, including, but not limited to, Web access as part of the collections of the MSU Libraries. None of these permissions shall be construed as a transfer of copyright ownership.

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Yes, please send me a URL that I can freely use and distribute for my item(s) above. Email:

Yes, I have a physical copy of the item(s), which may be used for digitization if unable to locate another.
                  The physical copy may be donated to the O.J. Noer Memorial Turfgrass Collection
                  The physical copy is loaned for digitization purposes only and is to be returned

Yes, I have a PDF copy of the item(s) as published and will email it to tgif@msu.edu (if variant- or corrected-version, please note it as such).

Yes, this thesis/dissertation has had resulting publications for which I can supply information.

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