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Lithium-ion batteries and the transition to electric vehicles: environmental challenges and opportunities from a life cycle perspective

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Submitting your PhD dissertation

Practical information on submitting your dissertation

The Beadle’s office

You must submit 2  copies of your thesis and appended propositions to the beadle’s office for the attention of the Doctorate Board no later than  three weeks before the date of your doctoral defence .

Delivery during office hours or send: Bureau Pedel, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ Leiden.

PhD Regulations

By decision of the Doctorate Board every PhD candidate at Leiden University is obliged to deliver two  copies of his/her dissertation to the library. He/she also submits the dissertation in digital form to the library for the benefit of the Institutional Repository (IR) of the University. For relevant changes see  PhD Regulations Leiden University .

Candidates are required to fill in both forms below.

• Dissertation Description & Upload Fill out the form with a short summary and metadata of your dissertation. Also, use this form to upload  PDFs of the dissertation, dissertation cover and propositions . If the dissertation contains published articles please fill in the DOIs. In the form you are asked for keywords. If there exists a generally accepted keyword list within your subject it's best to choose keywords from that list. If there's no such list, consult your promotor or mentor. Avoid words that are used in your dissertation's title, and words which have multiple explanations.  
• Appendix B (Licence Agreement, to be filled out and signed digitally and/or printed out and signed ). By signing the licence you grant Leiden University the non-exclusive right to post your dissertation in the digital archive, making it available Open Access worldwide. The university will clearly indicate the author or owner of the publication, and will not make any changes other than allowed by this licence. On this appendix you can also indicate which parts of your thesis should be put under embargo.

Send one  completed and signed copy  of Appendix B, together with  two copies  of your dissertation, to the following address:  University Libraries Leiden - MDA  Van Steenis Building  Einsteinweg 2 2333 CC Leiden 

Compensation for printing costs

PhD candidates receive a financial compensation of €500,-  for the printing costs of the dissertation. This compensation is paid by the UBL after receiving two printed copies of the dissertation, a digital copy of the dissertation and the signed license for the non-exclusive publication of the dissertation in digital form.

File types should be PDF. In most cases candidates will already have a PDF-file that is used for printing purposes. Word files can be turned into PDF by choosing File -> Save as Adobe PDF.  Please submit your dissertation as one single PDF. In case one or more chapters are embargoed please indicate so on Appendix B. Further editing is done by our metadata specialists. Also submit the DOI's from chapters that have already been published as articles. The cover and propositions can be submitted separately.  When you would like to store your research data please contact the data management experts at the Centre for Digital Scholarship .

When you only have files in Word (or other file formats), or have questions on the procedure please contact us by  e-mail  or call us at (071) 527 1525.

It is possible to request an embargo of 6, 12, 18, or 24 months for parts of the thesis in those cases where this is necessary because of arrangements with a publisher or for future publications. This embargo period can be stated in the licence. Doctoral candidates are required to check for themselves if and for how long the embargoes need to be set. In case the embargo period is insufficient, this can be extended within reason by the library as stated in the Ph.D. regulations. Please contact the library in case you need an extension.

Although a thesis might be placed under embargo, a candidate is still obliged to submit his/her disseration. Dissertations under embargo are archived for the long term, but not made available full text. However, the abstract and bibliographical information will be made available.

Publishing at your own website or a publisher

Candidates can publish the pdf of their dissertation on their own website. It is easier though, to put the repository-url of your dissertation on your website instead of the pdf. This url is permanent and will therefore remain unaltered.

If you have already published (articles from) your dissertation through a publisher, or are planning to do so, and also want your dissertation published in Open Access, approval depends on the type of licence you and your publisher have signed. In most cases you will have kept the right to submit your article / dissertation in an institutional repository or most publishers will grant you this right. In these cases you will have no problem submitting your dissertation. Note that some publishers can object to submitting a publisher's pdf. A new pdf will then have to be made. If your licence does not mention submitting your publication to an institutional repository, you may be able to find information about their Open Access policy on the publisher's website. Finally, you can write to the publisher to request permission to submit your publication to the repository. Most publishers are obliging in these cases. An up to date overview of publishers and their policies regarding copyright and online archiving in institutional repositories can be found on  Sherpa Romeo Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving .

If you have any questions on the procedure please contact us by  e-mail , or call us at (071) 527 1525.

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PhD Dissertation

The Leiden University PhD regulations are leading for the composition of the PhD dissertation. As Leiden University prescribes no strict regulations with regard to the structure and content of a PhD dissertation, LACDR has composed thesis guidelines, specified per research group. At the start of a PhD track, the PhD candidate will receive the guidelines of his/her research group. Note that these are guidelines, and for individual cases the promotor may deviate from these guidelines for specific reasons.

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•    Structure of the thesis •    Publication •    Authorship •    Same research manuscript in more than one thesis  

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The PhD regulations explain, among other things, which criteria a dissertation has to meet, the requirements for the non-scientific part of the dissertation, the composition of the doctoral and opposition committee, and so on.

Information about the procedures relating to submitting and defending your dissertation and which forms are required can be found here .

Your dissertation layout must meet certain requirements. Find out here which special rules apply if you have written your dissertation with others or if you are publishing a commercial edition.

More practical information about submitting your dissertation can be found here .

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