As a doctoral candidate you are responsible for obtaining permission to publish your dissertation’s content. You must have the full copyright for the images, tables and other such material presented in your dissertation, or have permission to publish them both in print and online. You must also ensure that all your computer software copyrights are in order.
When finalizing your doctoral dissertation containing articles, you must ensure that you have permission to include the articles or conference papers in your dissertation. You must have permissions for re-use both in the printed and in the electronic version of your doctoral dissertation. The Library will check the permissions and article versions before the dissertation is made publicly available in the institutional repository of Tampere University.
If the dissertation contains an unpublished article, it will not be included in the online version of the dissertation, so as not to jeopardise publication in an academic journal. However, the unpublished article should be included in the printed dissertation.
Notice that some of the publishers do not allow you to include the final, published version of the article in the electronic version of your dissertation. In these cases you must use the accepted manuscript version of the article. It is the final, submitted version of the article which is peer-reviewed and approved for publication. It does not have the final layout or typesetting by the publisher.
If your article or conference paper is published under a Creative Commons license, you do not have to request permission to include it in your doctoral dissertation.
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Open Science Policy: Tampere University is a responsible and open societal influencer and partner
Tampere University’s Open Science Policy emphasises the significance of openness in science and research from the perspectives of high quality of science and research, responsibility, and impact. The policy covers the openness of research culture, research practice, as well as education. Through responsible openness, Tampere University wants to increase the high scientific quality, transparency, impact, efficiency, and financial sustainability of research and teaching, respect the characteristics of the different fields of science as well as the rights of authors, and improve the prerequisites for the implementation of Open Science.
The permanent address of the publication is https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202402062145
Before saving a research article, a book chapter or a conference article in an institutional repository, you need to find out which version can be self-archived. The majority of publishers allow the author's own final version, or author´s accepted manuscript (post print version, final draf) to be saved into the university's own institutional repository. The author's own final version is the version that has been peer-reviewed and possibly edited according to the reviewer's comments but has not been finalized and edited by the publisher.
The final version of the publisher's own PDF version may be deposited to the instiutional repository if the article is published with the Creative Commons license. The article's final version is the publisher's edited version that has been published in the journal.
This table contains different names for article versions that publishers use at different stages of the publication process.
| Manuscript submitted to journal | Author's final version of an article |
Article published in a journal |
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| Terms | Pre-print, submitted version, author-submitted article | Post-print, final draft, accepted author manuscript, accepted article, author's accepted manuscript |
Final published article, final published version, version of record, definitive version, publisher PDF, publisher's version, ahead of print, in press, corrected proof, online first, epub, forthcoming article. |
| Definition | Not peer reviewed, author's first article manuscript version sent to a journal | The author's final version of an article that has been modified according to the feedback of the peer review, does not have the layout or logos of the publisher | Final version of the article that has layout, pagination, logo etc. finalized by the publisher |
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