How to Deposit your Doctoral Thesis
General
All dissertations and postdoctoral theses produced at the TU Dortmund must be submitted to the department Monografienbearbeitung in the Central Library. To comply with the legal deposit and publication regulations, you have to hand in deposit copies of your doctoral thesis after the oral examination.
Publication regulations and legal deposit regulations are set down in the Doctoral Degree Regulations (Promotionsordnungen) of the faculties. The number of deposit copies stipulated in the Promotionsordnungen varies depending on the publication form. The doctoral degree regulations are available at the Dean's Office (Dekanat) of your faculty or online on our Eldorado document repository.
After you have submitted your deposit copies, we will fax a receipt to the Dean's Office (Dekanat) / Doctoral Examination Board (Promotionsausschuss). On receipt of our fax, the faculty will issue your doctoral diploma.
Monografienbearbeitung: room 115b, first floor, central library. If the office Monografienbearbeitung is not manned, you may also hand in your thesis at the Lending Services during opening hours. You can of course make an appointment for the deposit of your thesis. Please call (0231) 755 4015.
Printed Theses
One copy of your thesis will be shelved under DissDo at the Central Library. We also send two deposit copies to the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) in Leipzig in accordance with the Statutes of the German National Library and its Legal Deposit Directive. Other copies will be used for book exchanges with other university libraries.
If your thesis is published with a publishing company, you have to provide written confirmation by your publisher confirming the required minimum edition size of 150 copies.
Electronic Theses
All Doctoral Degree Regulations (Promotionsordnungen) of TU Dortmund allow for an electronic publication of doctoral theses.
What we need for the electronic publication of your thesis:
- the required number of print copies specified in the Doctoral Degree Regulations (Promotionsordnung), usually three copies,
- a storage medium containing your thesis in PDF/A format. The pagination of your PDF file must be identical to the print version so as to ensure citability,
- an abstract and subject headings,
- a signed deposit form.
What happens after you have deposited your thesis:
- After you have handed in all of the above, we will fax a receipt to the Dean's Office (Dekanat) / Doctoral Examination Board (Promotionsausschuss). On receipt of our fax, the faculty will issue your doctoral diploma.
- After we have uploaded your doctoral thesis to Eldorado, a persistent identifier (handle) will be allocated, a citable URL which ensures the long-term accessibility of the document. You will receive an email with the URL of your thesis.
- Your thesis will be listed in our library catalogue and we will register it with the German National Library. Electronic theses are listed in the German National Bibliography Series H and are archived on Deposit.D-NB.DE. Your thesis is thus retrievable online and accessible in full text through the German National Library online catalogue.
If you have any questions about publishing your thesis electronically, consult our Eldorado team, who will be happy to help you.
Further information about our Eldorado document repository can be found on the Eldorado homepage.
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