Start by filling in the The defence of the doctoral dissertation -form.
Then fill in Title page -template and have it checked in your faculty to make sure all affiliations, titles and universities are correct.
Send the checked title pages (word), the article permissions (for both printed and online dissertation) and the article list by email to dissertations@tuni.fi. The library adds the ISBN and ISSN numbers to the title pages and sends the pages back to you (1-3 business days).
After the dissertation has been printed the library saves your doctoral dissertation on the University institutional repository Trepo. You will get instructions on how to publish your dissertation online. If the dissertation is printed in black and white, the online publication is also in black and white.
The printing house sends an archivable (PDF/A) version of the dissertation to the library. It is identical with the printed doctoral dissertation. The dissertation is archived in a closed collection that can be read from a library reading terminal without the possibility to print or copy.
Please fill in and submit The defence of the doctoral dissertation form and send the permissions of an article-based dissertation and the article list by email to dissertations@tuni.fi.
In case you publish your dissertation e.g. in a faculty series, in a series by another publisher or as a self-published book, you can get the ISBN -number by email dissertations@tuni.fi.
Self-published dissertations do not receive the serial numbers of the Tampere University Dissertations -series. (*An ISBN is assigned to each separate edition and format of a publication. For example, an e-book and a printed paperback edition of the same work will each have a different ISBN.)
Deliver the printed dissertation to the Faculty and to the Library no later than 10 days before the public defence.
An online version of the dissertation will be published on the University institutional repository Trepo unless it is not permitted by the external publisher. You will receive the online publishing permission to be electronically signed after you have submitted The defence of the doctoral dissertation -form.
All dissertations of Tampere University must be submitted to the library as an archivable (PDF/A) dissertation with the same content as in the printed dissertation.This applies also to the dissertations, that cannot be published in Trepo. The dissertation is archived in a closed collection that can be read from a library reading terminal without the possibility to print or copy.
This email is only reaches library staff. For contact information of faculties and the printing house, see here.
If you cannot find answers to your questions, please email us.
Follow this list to make sure you have taken into consideration all the stages included in the publishing process of a dissertation. For detailed instructions on each step, see the tabs in this guide.
In case you publish your dissertation e.g. in a faculty series, in a series by another publisher or as a self-published book, follow this list to make sure you have taken into consideration all the stages included in the publishing process of a dissertation.
Tampere University requires doctoral candidates to publish their dissertation openly in the University institutional repository Trepo, unless the terms of an external publisher preclude it.
You will receive the online publishing permission to be electronically signed after you have submitted us The defence of the doctoral dissertation -form.
For open publishing, the doctoral candidate must request permission from the publishers of the articles attached to the dissertation. Read more on the Permissions to Publish page. Provided that the terms of the original publisher allow it, articles included in the dissertation can be published online. If you do not have permission to publish the article in electronic form as part of the dissertation, it will be omitted from the PDF file before saving it on Trepo.
