About posting a thesis
According to a decision by the KTH president, doctoral thesis and licentiate thesis should be handled according to the same routines and be made available (posted) in both printed and electronic form, at least three weeks prior to the doctoral defence or licentiate seminar.
Posting in electronic format
The electronic posting is carried out in the KTH publication database DiVA. Posting your thesis includes registering information about the thesis and the defence of the theses, as well as uploading your thesis in full text (pdf). It will then be made freely available. Only material protected by secrecy is exempted from this. If you have written a compilation thesis the summary should always be uploaded in fulltext as a pdf.
Posting in printed format
Posting in printed form means that you deliver one printed copy of your thesis to the library. You may also, if you choose to do so, hang a copy of the printed thesis in the thesis tree in the library hall. The copy in the tree will be taken down the day after your defense and given away.
Note that you need to post both in electronic and printed form.
To facilitate the posting process it is important that everything is done in a certain order. Please go to the web page Posting step by step to understand the posting procedure in DiVA.
How to register papers to your thesis
If you have written a compilation thesis, you should first register the appended papers in DiVA. Begin by searching for appended papers in DiVA to check if they have been previously entered. If they are not already in the system, add them manually or by importing from sources such as Scopus or Web of Science.
For unpublished appended papers, choose the publication type "Manuscript (preprint)". If these manuscripts have already been submitted to or accepted by a journal, you can indicate this in the comments field. You should not register unpublished appended papers as "Journal Article". When the manuscript eventually becomes a published article, it will be automatically imported into DiVA, or you can register it separately. A good rule of thumb is that an article can be considered published when it has received a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). Manuscripts and published articles will eventually exist side by side in DiVA as two separate entries, even if they seem to be the "same work".
If your thesis contains manuscripts, you can decide whether these should have a visible and downloadable PDF. It is considered beneficial to make your research public as early as possible from an "open science perspective" as it accelerates scientific discussion and provides a "timestamp" for the research. However, publishing research as a manuscript may cause issues if the research is later to be used for a patent application or if you suspect that the journal to which you intend to submit your manuscript is hesitant about the research results already being available online. Most journals and publishers nowadays have no problem with unpublished manuscripts being available before the peer-review process or being part of theses with visible full text.
The library strongly encourages you to attach manuscripts to the entry. The full text can also be hidden/archived if you are unsure or change your mind.
Instructions for posting a thesis
