Degree Conferral Act Article 16

Persons who have obtained a doctoral or master’s degree shall give a copy of their thesis or dissertation, written report, technical report, or professional practice report which they submitted for the degree to the National Central Library in the form of documents, videotapes, audiotapes, discs or in some other form, along with an electronic file version, through the enrolling university and to the library affiliated with the university for storage.A copy of the dissertation, thesis, written report, technical report, or professional practice report stored by the National Central Library shall be made available to the public to read within the library in print form or by accessing electronic data files using independent equipment. If authority has been given in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act, the said stored items may be reproduced, publicly transmitted over the internet inside or outside the library, or handled or used in other ways that are subject to copyright. If, however, any of them involves confidential information, patent matters, or is not permitted to be provided on statutory grounds and this has been confirmed by the university, the material may be placed under embargo for a certain period, or access to it may be denied.The library storage and public availability referred to in the preceding two paragraphs do not affect the copyright of any such dissertations, theses, written reports, technical reports, or professional practice reports.