Information on the submission of an electronic doctoral thesis

In compliance with the Doctoral Regulations, the University Library also offers the option of submitting a doctoral thesis in electronic form.

The number of paper copies is reduced in accordance with the respective faculty Doctoral Regulations.

OPUS-Database
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The electronic doctoral thesis is made available online via the OPUS Publication Server. It can therefore be accessed worldwide and the full text can be used directly from the OPAC, the Discovery system or OPUS.

The doctoral thesis must be uploaded in OPUS by the doctoral student himself . The document will be published on the publication server after a review and processing in the Acquisition/Cataloguing Department of the University Library. Therefor the library needs the “Declaration of the Doctoral Candidate for Submitting a Doctoral Thesis in Electronic Form” signed by the doctoral student. It must be ensured that the declaration is submitted to the University Library along with the printed copies of the doctoral thesis. This can be done in person or by post.

For the moment the University Library Greifswald only accepts doctoral theses in Portable Document Format (PDF). Password protection of the file is not permitted for long-term archiving. The size of the electronic doctoral thesis should not exceed 200 MB. It can however consist of several files, whose names must comply with the order of the chapters in the printed copy.

Please check carefully that the electronic doctoral thesis corresponds exactly to the paper version. No amendment is possible once the declaration form has been submitted!
Please note: Should you add your CV to the electronic version (optional), this can also be searched worldwide online!

Any later changes to electronically published doctoral theses that have to be made by library staff are subject to a fee compliance with the Fee Regulations of the University Library.

With the registration of the electronic publication of the doctoral thesis, the doctoral student transfers the right to the University Library Greifswald to make the doctoral thesis available online throughout the world.

For its part the University Library Greifswald guarantees to keep the electronic doctoral thesis accessible on its server for a minimum period of 7 years, however, only for as long as the doctoral thesis can be read electronically in Greifswald.

In order to ensure access is also guaranteed beyond this, the University Library Greifswald notifies the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek of the electronic doctoral thesis, which then carries out the technical conversion should changes be made to the computer system.

The author´s rights for any planned publication of the doctoral thesis remain with the doctoral student.

• Doctoral Theses Greifswald in the OPUS database
• Doctoral Theses in the national catalogue of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

• Submission of the doctoral thesis
• Courses