LiU Electronic Press

Before You Publish

• Fill in, sign and return to your department administrator, the electronic publishing agreement
• Also read the Publishing Tips for useful information and Editing Pictures for tips about images.
• Template and information about the Library Information Sheet.
• Copyright page to insert in your work (if it is required by your department).
• We have also made some document templateswhich might help you in your report writing. The template is in A4 format but the printing shop will scale down to correct format before printing. See LiU Tryck homepage for more information.
• Your Student Thesis must be approved and the final version and converted to a pdf file. In the Public Computer Rooms at the University there are computers with programmes for converting your thesis to a pdf file. Computer rooms are also available in Campus Norrköping library.
• Do not fill in the following fields:
  U Research group
  Series
  Other series
  Local ID
  Archive number
  DOI
  URL
  URL label
  Educational program
  Part of project
  

How to Publish your Thesis Electronically

1. Fill in First and Family name. If there are more than one author all authors must be filled in (Click the button Another author to open a new section)
2. In the field User name, fill in your LiU-ID.
3. Click on the the text Choose organisation in the In the field Department, unit or programme. List the departments by clicking on the plus sign (see image 1 below). Choose department by clicking on the name. If the sub department is filled in, do not fill in the department name, it will be filled in automatically. Select faculty (LiU has four faculties: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Health Science and The Institute of Technology).
   
   Image 1. Click on the plus sign to list the
   the departments.
4. Mark External cooperation (a new field is shown) and fill in external cooperation partner i.e. a company or private, municipal or governmental institution etc.
5. Fill in the Student thesis title: Main title and subtitle (the latter if available). If the title is separated with a colon or a hyphen the text after the colon or hyphen should be added in the field Subtitle and colon and hyphen removed from the title. State the language the thesis is written in and if the title is available in another language write the title in the field Alternative title.
6. Choose the level of the thesis.
7. Choose the University credits.
8. Choose subject/course from the list. If you are uncertain of what subject/course it is, ask your student administrator at the department.
9. Fill in Year and Number of pages (the last numbered page in the thesis).
10. Fill in ISRN in the field ISRN. You get the ISRN from the student administrator at your department.
11. From the lists add National and Uppsök subject category. If the fields are left blank the Thesis will not be transferred to Uppsök and essays.se.
12. Fill in keywords and abstract. This information makes your Thesis more searchable and with that more visible via Google.
13. If possible fill also in Supervisor, Tutor and Presentation.
14. Click on the button Continue.
15. Click on the button Browse, find your Thesis. Upload the document file (PDF format) and finish by clicking the button Continue (if the file is in another format than pdf the download of the file will not work).
16. When you are satisfied with the result and would like to publish your thesis, click the button Submit. Your thesis will now be sent for verifying/reviewing by the responsible administrator at your department. Note! Do not upload the pdf file with your thesis before you have proof-read it or before you have printed the thesis (if the thesis is printed, we do not replace files afterwards).
17. If you would like to include the URL-link to the electronic version of your thesis in the pdf file go to the page Get URL to your thesis.
18. When you have completed all the steps correctly, a message is shown on your screen to confirm that your thesis has been sent to be verified by the responsible administrator at your department. If your work is not published within 14 days, contact your department for help. If the department cannot help you contact LiU E-Press.
19. Login to the electronic publishing system using your student email account and fill in the web form by following the instructions above.

Advantages by Electronic Publishing

• The author always retains the copyright of the work (as do the students),
• It is free of charge, no costs for the author, the department or the visitor,
• Effective way of preventing plagiarism,
• Show how public funds are used,
• Eco-friendly publishing,
• We do not have to deal with paper handling of student theses at the library, saving labour and costs,
• Statistics directly on the page: number of unique visitors to the page, number of downloads of the file,
• Publishing of images and diagrams in colour without any extra costs,
• Multimedia files are simple to include in the publication,
• A fixed URL address, which is simple to refer to,
• All publications are guaranteed accessible from the publication date,
• Searchable in the University Library Catalogue System with a link to LiU E-Press,
• Searchable in Uppsök (LIBRIS) and Uppsatser.se,
• The publication is searchable from all over the world,
• Electronic publishing is an efficient way to spread scientific research results all over the world with the a large audience,
• The interest of an publication can be read by the number of visitors to the publication.