The Thesis Toolkit [PDF] has useful information pertaining to theses and contains a sample permission letter [DOCx] and copyright material log [DOCx].
For reports which will be distributed outside of the University you will need to seek permission from the copyright owner of each photograph.
For all other reports, permission is not necessary.
If you assigned copyright in the articles to the journal publisher, you will need to request permission to include them. This is because making them available to the public in the Research Outputs Repository is treated as though you were publishing the articles again, which is an exclusive right of the copyright holder. Consult the The Thesis Toolkit [PDF] for advice on seeking permission and contains a sample permission letter [DOCx] and copyright material log [DOCx].
Individual publisher policies vary, but authors are less likely to be charged a fee to reuse their own work than other researchers. Alternatively, the publisher policies may permit archiving a manuscript version of the article without charge.
For example, if the images were made available by an organisation, it would probably be reasonable to contact that organisation for permission, especially if the organisation still exists.
If the organisation no longer exists and there are no contact details available or the website has been taken down or moved, but you still have the original source URL, it might be reasonable to cite the URL and include a date, even if just the year that you accessed the site followed by:
'All reasonable efforts have been taken to identify the copyright owner of this material. If you are the copyright owner or know who they are, please contact [insert contact details].'
The Referencing Roadmap provides a comprehensive list of examples on how to reference/acknowledge material properly. Examples include websites, blogs, tweets, podcasts, YouTube videos, films, TV programs, maps, graphs, diagrams and images.
However, it is your responsibility as the author of your thesis to obtain the necessary clearances for your thesis to be published online in the University's online research repository.
For more information, please refer to the University's Thesis Toolkit [PDF]. It has useful information pertaining to theses and contains a sample permission letter [DOCx] and copyright material log [DOCx].
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