Publishing your thesis
Submitting your thesis
You upload your thesis in OSIRIS. In OSIRIS, you can indicate if you want your thesis to be made publicly available. We do not make Bachelor's theses publicly available. Read more about uploading your theses here.
Findability of your thesis
Have you chosen to make your thesis publicly available? Then it will be done by means of a Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC-ND. Your thesis will then be:
- publicly and freely accessible via the Utrecht University Student Theses Repository Please read the Repository manual to get the best search results
- also findable in WorldCat and Google Scholar.
- publicly available for a fifteen-year period.
Changing the publication status
Has your master thesis already been published and would you like to make adjustments? Please email the library.
Have you decided not to publish your master thesis or have you set an embargo date and would you like to see that changed so that your thesis is made publicly available? Please send an email to your faculty. State the reasons why you want to change the publication status or embargo date. Have you written the thesis together with a fellow student? Don't forget to inform the other author(s).
Please check the page about uploading and archiving your thesis for more information.
Taking your thesis offline
Master theses are online for a fifteen-year period, after that period they are always taken offline. Do you want your thesis taken offline earlier? Please send a request to the library by filling in the form Request to take student thesis offline.
Privacy statement
Utrecht University treats personal data as confidential when publishing your thesis. More information about how Utrecht University handles personal data in relation to your thesis can be found in the privacy statement.