After the faculty has given the doctoral candidate permission for public examination, the doctoral dissertation can be published. The dissertation must be published at least ten days before the public examination. The doctoral candidate must make sure that the dissertation is available at the university library in time. If the dissertation has only been published in an electronic format, a paper copy must be taken to the library for the pub- lic to view.
A doctoral dissertation can be published in printed or electronic format or both. Print- ing is not obligatory. The University of Eastern Finland and many research institutes have publication series which publish doctoral dissertation.
The following dissertation series of UEF's publication series publish dissertations: Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Dissertations in Education, Humanities, and Theology.
Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Dissertations in Forestry and Natural Sciences.
Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Dissertations in Health Sci- ences.
Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Dissertations in Social Sci- ences and Business (have to publish both in paper and electronic form)
Doctoral dissertation publication process in one of the university’s publication series: 1. After the faculty has given the doctoral candidate permission for public examination, the doctoral dissertation can be published.
2. As the author, the doctoral student is responsible for acquiring copyrights and publi- cation rights for the articles and other materials in the dissertation. An article-based dis- sertation is published in full only if the original article publishers have given their writ- ten consent to republish the articles in the university’s publication series. The permis- sion for reprinting must be announced on a separate page at the beginning of each arti- cle, in the table of contents and after other possible indexes. E.g. ’Printed with the kind permission of [publisher’s name]’
3. The doctoral student applies for publication permission from the publication series’ editor. After receiving the publication permission, the student signs a publication con- tract with the editor-in-chief. The publication permission form is available on the com- munications page of the university’s intranet: https://www.uef.fi/intra/viestinta/jul- kaisusarjat
The responsible editors for the publication series are:
Philosophical Faculty: Professor Päivi Atjonen (School of Educational Sci- ences and Psychology), Professor Ulla Härkönen (School of Applied Educa- tional Sceince and Teacher Education), Professor Matti Kotiranta (School of Theology) and Professor Maija Könönen (School of Humanities)
Faculty of Science and Forestry: Professor Pertti Pasanen (Environmental Sci- ence), vice editors: Professor Pekka Toivanen (Computer Sci), Professor Jukka Tuomela (Physics and Mathematics) and Professor Matti Vornanen (Biology). Faculty of Health Sciences: Professor Tomi Laitinen, vice editors: Professor Hannele Turunen and Associate Professor Tarja Malm, Professor Kai Kaarni- ranta, University Lecturer Veli-Pekka Ranta.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies: Professor Kimmo Katajala, in- formation officer Eija Fabritius
4. The doctoral student is responsible for preparing the dissertation for publication, in- cluding its layout. The editor-in-chief decides on the layout of the text. Technical writ- ing instructions are available in the university’s publication guide:
https://www.uef.fi/intra/viestinta/julkaisusarjat
The doctoral student also takes care of the layout in practice. A layout template and dis- sertation cover models are available from the Communications and Media Relations Of- fice’s intranet site. It is recommended to use the layout template from the beginning of the dissertation writing process. https://www.uef.fi/intra/viestinta/julkaisusarjat See layout and publication instructions of the Faculty of Philosophy:
http://www.uef.fi/filtdk/vaitoskirjan-julkaisuohjeet
See layout and publication instructions of the Faculty of Health Sciences:
http://www.uef.fi/ttdk/ohjeet-ja-lomakkeet25. The editor requests an ISBN code for the dissertation from by using the web-formula that can be found from:
http://elomake.joensuu.fi/lomakkeet/3205/lomake.html
6. The doctoral student writes a content description for the dissertation together with the library, either by email or through a personal appointment with an informatician (further information from the library customer service points).
7. The doctoral student manages the printing of the dissertation.
8. The doctoral student, the editor and a person appointed by the library check the proof version. A proof must always be printed before the thesis is published. The edi- tor-in-chief gives printing permission.
9. The doctoral student sees to the printing and distribution of the dissertation. The print run contains: exchange copies, copies for the library collections, free copies, copies distributed to the university community, an archive copy and copies for sale. The cus- tom has been to send the dissertation to the Rector of the student’s home campus, the Dean of the Faculty and the Professor of the student’s subject. Copies of the dissertation are sent to the opponent and the Custos well before the public examination. The library will forward the exchange copies funded by the university to its exchange partners and incorporates them into its collections. The library is also responsible for selling the dis- sertation and determines the price.
The print runs for the publication series are the following: the Philosophical Faculty at least 60 copies, the Faculty of Science and Forestry at least 40 copies, the Faculty of Health Sciences at least 50 copies, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies at least 120.
10. The doctoral student also signs an electronic publication contract with the library. All dissertations in the university’s publication series are also published electronically. The electronic publication contract form and publication instructions are available from the library website: http://epublications.uef.fi/julkaisijalle/
11. The doctoral student must take the dissertation to the library of his/her home cam- pus at least ten days before the public examination.