Register and publish in full text
Registration in LUCRIS and adding a full text
These instructions cover procedures and requirements before the public defence such as obtaining an ISBN, registering in LUCRIS, and publishing the full text to increase visibility.
Register your doctoral thesis in LUCRIS
Doctoral students at Lund University use LUCRIS to register their degree project and the thesis when it is completed.
To register your thesis, you need the following:
- Log-in information (LUCAT).
- Title information, ISBN, etc.
- Abstract in English, preferably also in Swedish.
- Details of the public defence, including date and venue
- The doctoral thesis in full text as a pdf document for archiving. Do not include a signed document data sheet. Google may index the signature as a separate image. Use an unsigned version or omit the data sheet when adding the full text.
Tips:
- Complete the registration well in advance of the public defence
- You can save a draft in LUCRIS and continue later
Before printing your doctoral thesis, it must have a unique identifier (ISBN), usually printed on the flyleaf. ISBNs can be obtained from the University Library, or your faculty/department.
Doctoral students at Lund University register their degree project and the completed thesis in LUCRIS. This makes the thesis visible in the LU Research Portal and the upcoming public defenses webpage. A LUCAT account is required for registration.
Read more about registration in LUCRIS on the Staff pages
A short step-by-step manual is also available for registering a thesis and a thesis project.
LUCRIS short guide for doctoral and licentiate students (PDF)
If your doctoral thesis PDF is not ready when registering in LUCRIS, contact your faculty secretary to inform about this. See the list for your faculty’s contact person.
After you register your doctoral thesis in LUCRIS, your faculty or department contact will review and approve it before it becomes visible in the Research Portal and the calendar. You will be notified once the registration is approved.
Publish your thesis in full text
Once a thesis is registered including the full text, it should be made freely available online to increase visibility and dissemination. Copyright rules may vary depending on the type of thesis.
The author holds the copyright and may make the publication freely available.
Contact the publisher
The author holds the copyright for the comprehensive summary which can be made freely available. Access to other included publications depends on agreements with the respective publishers.
LU has general agreements with the following publishers: IEEE, Elsevier, Cambridge University Press and Portland Press.
Submitted manuscripts
If your thesis includes unpublished or submitted manuscripts, only the comprehensive summary should be made open access in LUCRIS. Some publishers may consider a manuscript already published if it is included electronically in a thesis, which can affect journal submission. Plagiarism detection software may flag overlaps between the thesis and submitted papers, potentially causing rejection or delays. Once the articles are published and you have permission from the publishers, the complete thesis can be made open access.
Articles in LUCRIS with the status “submitted” are generally not made visible, as this may affect future publication.
Published articles
Publishers usually allow articles to be included in the printed thesis. Whether the compilation thesis, including articles, can also be made freely available online depends on the publisher’s policy. For information on reuse permissions, check the publisher’s website—it’s always best to start there.
You can also use the following forms to request permission directly from the publisher:
Lund University has general publishing agreements with a number of publishers. If your article is published by one of the following publishers, no agreement is necessary:
Visibility and dissemination
When a doctoral thesis is published electronically, it becomes indexed and searchable in Google. It is also listed in the European dissertation database DART-Europe and the international open-access database BASE. The thesis is linked to its full text via the Swedish research database SwePub and the global library catalog WorldCat. All search results point to the thesis description in the Research Portal.
Contact the faculty secretary
For other questions about your doctoral thesis and upcoming public defence, please contact your faculty secretary.
Faculty office contact
School of Economics and Management
charlina [dot] lunvald [at] fek [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlina Lunvald)
Phone: +46 46 222 41 73
Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and IIIEE
maria [dot] bajuk [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Bajuk)
Phone: +46 46 222 89 13
Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts
Annika Michelsen
Phone: +46 46 32 54 96
Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
kristina [dot] arnrup_thorsbro [at] kansliht [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Arnrup Thorsbro)
Phone: +46 46 222 83 15
Faculty of Law
Helena Josefsson
Phone: +46 46 222 10 95
Faculty of Medicine
Anette Saltin
Phone: +46 46 222 49 26
Faculty of Science
constance [dot] holmback [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Constance Holmbäck)
Phone: +46 46 222 44 24
Faculty of Social Sciences
yvonne [dot] aiello_davidsson [at] sam [dot] lu [dot] se (Yvonne Aiello Davidsson)
Phone: +46 46 222 43 65
