For information on formal aspects of your doctoral thesis including a template for the thesis title page please consult the website of the Doctoral Administration Office.
Based on the 2008 Ordinance on Doctoral Studies (Version: 1 November 2013, Art. 34) and the 2013 Implementation Provisions (Sect. 12) and in keeping with ETH Zurich’s Open-Access Policy, doctoral students are obliged to upload the corresponding electronic file of the approved doctoral thesis onto ETH Library’s institutional repository, i.e. that means publishing it via the Research Collection.
If an electronic publication is not possible for copyright or patent-related reasons or due to ongoing applications at research funding institutions, the doctoral student can temporarily be released from the electronic publication obligation. The abstract will be published in any case.
The temporary non-publication of the full text of a doctoral thesis can be requested in the submission process when uploading the electronic file to the Research Collection (cf. Access rights). The doctoral student needs to indicate the reason for the embargo and can choose between an embargo period of 12, 24 or 36 months.
Please not that the embargo requested in the Research Collection is only applicable to the electronic version of the doctoral thesis. Exclusively in the case of embargo applications based on patent applications, a lending restriction of a maximum of twelve months will be imposed on the printed copies.
If you plan to integrate articles that have already been published or that have been accepted by a journal into your doctoral thesis, please read through the information provided on the website of the Doctoral Administration Office in the paragraph "Cumulative doctoral thesis".
To read up on publishers' policies regarding cumulative doctoral theses go to this page. |
If you no longer have a nethz account to submit your doctoral thesis, please contact us to receive a guest account.
Please note that as soon as you have submitted your PDF and received confirmation of its release, it is no longer possible to change the PDF or its content. Significant changes of content can be submitted and published in the form of an Erratum or Corrigendum.
Many adademic publishers nowaday accept articles for publication, even if they have already been published online as part of an open access dissertation. Similar to how preprints are treated, online disssertations often also do not count as "prior publication" according to many publihers's policies.
See also: Discussion document on best practice for issues around theses publishing (by the Commitee on Publication Ethis)
Please go to the page Deposit copies for information on how to submit your print copies.