How to deposit your doctoral dissertation for preservation?
You are obliged to offer your doctoral dissertation (PhD) to the University of Antwerp Library for preservation.
- Upload your digital version in PDF format. This will be archived in the library repository. Procedure uploading dissertation.
- Provide a paper version of the dissertation to the library as an archive copy.
The bibliographic data of your thesis will be added to the catalogue and the Academic Bibliography.
Clause of confidentiality
PhD researchers have to upload the completed and signed 'confidentiality checklist' via the tile ‘Requests’ in SisA (New Request > PhD doctoral thesis > Submit confidentiality checklist) at the latest when submitting the first draft thesis to the individual PhD commission. The PDF form will then automatically be sent to the Valorisation Office and the faculty/department doctoral administration. As soon as the form is submitted, the milestone ‘Arranging confidentiality’ in ePhD will automatically be completed. As long as the confidentiality checklist is not submitted, it will be impossible to submit an application for the announcement of the public defence.
The paper version of the confidential dissertation is kept in the library (Special Collections department) and can only be consulted under the supervision of the library staff. The user must also sign a declaration of confidentiality. The digital version in the catalogue is not accessible.