FAQ about the registration procedure

In LUCRIS.

Short guide for doctoral students : How to add your thesis and PhD-project in LUCRIS (PDF, 661 kB, new window) (Updated 221011)
 

• Log-in information (Lucat).
• Information on the title of the doctoral thesis, ISBN etc.
• Abstract in English, and preferably also in Swedish.
• Information about the public defence of your doctoral thesis, venue and date, etc.
• The doctoral thesis in full text as a PDF document for archiving.

You can save an incomplete registration and return to it at a later time.

Our page publishing a doctoral thesis in full text.
 

In order to register a doctoral thesis you must have a LUCAT account.

Information about Lucat (in Swedish)

If you have forgotten your password, you can change it on the Password Portal for student account and Lucat.
 

This should be done well in advance to the public defence of your doctoral thesis. Contact the person at your faculty or institution for more exact information regarding the registration deadline.
 

See the column for the contact person.

Before you send your doctoral thesis to be printed, it must have a unique ID. This is called an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and is usually printed on the flyleaf of the doctoral thesis.

You can find information about how to obtain an ISBN number on the University library  web pages.
 

When you have registered your dissertation a message will be sent to the contact person at your faculty or institution, who will approve the registration. You will receive a message when the registration is approved and your thesis is visible in LUCRIS.

Contact the person responsible at at your faculty or institution. See column for the contact person.
 

If the publisher of the doctoral thesis is you or the University, the pdf file can be made publicly available in LUCRIS in conjunction with registration.

Our page publishing a doctoral thesis in full text.
 

Every doctoral student is to submit three complete copies of the doctoral thesis (one copy of licentiate thesis) to the University Library at Helgonabacken. Each copy of the doctoral thesis should contain a document data sheet.

Note! If you are a doctoral student at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, do not submit your thesis to the University Library. Your faculties will handle it for you.

Do you prefer to send your dissertations by post? Please address to Universitetsbiblioteket Box 3, 221 00 Lund. Do not forget to mark the envelope with "Dissertations" and to write your own address – we will send you a note that we have received your thesis.

University Library
 

The doctoral thesis should contain an abstract sheet with information about the public defence of the doctoral thesis. The links below provide templates for this:

Document data sheet (PDF)

Document data sheet (RTF)