Publishing a doctoral thesis in full text

Visibility of the doctoral thesis

If you publish your doctoral thesis electronically, it will not only be indexed and made searchable in Google. It will also be listed in the European doctoral theses database DART-Europe and in the international database for freely available academic material – BASE. It will also be linked to your full text from the Swedish research database SwePub and from the world’s largest library catalogue, WorldCat.

Regardless of the search engine or database from which the searches were conducted, any hits will be directed to the LUCRIS record describing your doctoral thesis.

• DART-Europe
• BASE
• SwePub
• WorldCat

Publishing a monograph

If you or the University is the publisher of your doctoral thesis, the PDF can be made publicly available in LUCRIS in conjunction with registration in LUCRIS. If the doctoral thesis is being published by an external publisher, permission from the publisher is required.

For further information, please visit the Copyright page.

Publishing a compilation thesis

If your thesis include unpublished or submitted manuscripts, only the comprehensive summary should be made open access in LUCRIS.  The electronic version of the complete thesis should also be uploaded but with access set to  “Closed”. Some publishers consider a manuscript to have been published already if it is made available electronically in a thesis and will not accept them for publication in their journals. Once the submitted articles are published, and if you have permission from the publishers, you can make the complete thesis open access.

Publishers usually allow articles to be included in a thesis. If the dissertation with articles also can be made freely available digitally varies depending on the publisher's policy. The publisher's web pages provide information on permits for re-use of articles in dissertations, so it is always a good start to search directly with the publisher.
Caltech Library has compiled a list of several publishers and their guidelines, which can also be helpful:

Publishers' Thesis Policies

The following form can be used when applying for permission from publishers:

Application form for previously published material (PDF)

Lund University has general publishing agreements with a number of publishers. If your article is published by one of the following publishers, no agreement is necessary:

• IEEE (PDF)
• Cambridge University Press (PDF)
• Elsevier (PDF)
• Portland Press (PDF)

Generally, articles with the status "submitted" are not made available in LUCRIS as this may jeopardize future publications.