Dissertations
Publishing a dissertation is a prerequisite for the conferral of a doctorate degree and regulated in the faculties' doctoral degree regulations. The University Library is happy to provide advice and support around the publication of your dissertation.
Please note:
- Publication is only possible after submission of the written print permission from the PhD board.
- The form of your thesis has to be agreed on by your supervisor and the PhD board.
- Your thesis must be declared as dissertation either on the title leaf, the back of the title leaf or in the imprint. The place of the dissertation, the names of the reviewers and the date of the oral exam must be stated.
- Concerning copyright: should your thesis include someone else's copyrighted material it must be either covered by the right to quote or you must obtain the rights of use that are necessary for publication.
The doctoral degree regulations prescribe exactly which prerequisites have to be met (number of mandatory copies etc).
Online publication of dissertations
Your thesis will be published online in FIS, the Research Information System of the university, thus making your work available worldwide for free in accordance with open access principles. It will be accessible and archived permanently thanks to our cooperation with the German National Library. Your dissertation will be listed in library catalogues, databases, and search machines and can be found and cited with a permanent URN or DOI.
In order to publish a dissertation, the University Library requires the signing of a publishing agreement(113.5 KB), in which you declare to:
- grant the University Library the non-exclusive, permanent licence for uitilisation of the thesis, without obligation for utilisation
- grant the University Library Bamberg the right to save the file, make it accessible in data networks and, if necessary, convert it into other data formats
- insure that you are the sole holder of all rights and that no rights of third parties are being violated by the publication of the document
Advisors of the thesis confirm with the publishing agreement, that the online publication of the dissertation have been co-ordinated with them.
Please format your document into an unprotected pdf that is neither encrypted nor password protected. Please make sure the used fonts are embedded in Unicode.
The digital version must be identical to the to-be-submitted print version. For this reason, you should use the pdf-document as master for the print copies you will need. This ensures that the formatting of both digital and printed version will be identical.
The to-be-published dissertation should not contain a curriculum vitae or a declaration.
Additionally to the submission of a digital copy, a submission of six printed versions to the university library (for faculties Human Sciences and Education as well as in the Humanities) or to the dean's office (for faculties Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, as well as publication in Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences) is obligatory.
Please submit the signed publishing agreement along with the printed copies.
The electronic version of your dissertation will be checked with your submitted print copies and metadata supplemented if necessary.
Dissertations can only be published after the oral exam has been passed and the printing permission resp. interim notice is present. When all requierements are met, the dissertation will be published in FIS and is accessible online. A notification will be sent to the German National Library in Frankfurt/Main with the online release, where the publication and its metadata will be indexed and archived long-term. Your dissertation will be indexed in the Bamberg Catalogue, the Bavarian Library Network Catalogue and the university's bibliography.
