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If you have to deposit the thesis and you are enrolled in any of the PhD programmes listed below, you must, prior to making the deposit, go to Turnitin to assess the similarities of your thesis file.
For the PhD programmes that participate in this pilot test, it is mandatory to include the two documents indicated below on this page. For the PhD programmes that begin to participate in this second pilot test (indicated with an asterisk), the obligation will begin with the deposits that are recorded as of 06/21/2022 (included).
Once you have obtained the Turnitin report (which contains the percentage of similarities and the shaded text of the PhD thesis), you must incorporate it as a file when making the online deposit (document 44). You must also include this document as a sworn statement and in case you have to indicate the reasons for the similarities detected (document 45), if any.
If you have any questions about the software, check out the Turnitin help pages. For other questions, contact the Coordination of your PhD programme.
Below you will find a set of resources to help you learn more about this software:
Before registering the deposit request, check that the persons listed as directors and as guardian are the correct ones. If not, do not record any details of the deposit and follow as soon as possible the instructions that you will find on this same page, in the section “Changes of directors and tutors”.
If you have external directors to the UAB you must, before starting the deposit, contact ed.intranet@uab.cat since they do not yet have access to validate the thesis deposit.
In this video you will find information on how to enter your activities in your academic record.
Before requesting to deposit your thesis online you should have carried out all the obligatory activities (indicated by a blue icon). Remember that you should have filled in all the details and uploaded the documentary evidence on the application. They must also have been validated by your supervisor or tutor.
Compulsoty documents:
Documents which will be required if you make any of this requests, and which should be uploaded in the 'Attach documents' section:
If the PhD Programme has authorised the presentation of the thesis as a collection of articles, you should indicate this in the online request form.
The request will be considered incomplete if you do not upload all the required documents or information.
The thesis file should contain the thesis in its entirety, with the exception of theses subject to data protection or thechnological transfer processes.
Follow the formal criteria for presenting a PhD thesis.
Can I upload a replacement thesis fila?
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What do I have to know about Intellectual Property and Open Access?
We recommend you to make a complete impression of the thesis before attaching the copy in the application to detect possible pagination errors, graphics, images, personal or third party personal data, etc ...
Ask the Coordinator of the PhD Programme (the department or institute responsible for your PhD) about requests to write the theses in languages other than Catalan, Spanish or English and the length of time in advance that this request should be made. You should upload the document containing the decision on your request in the ‘Attach documents’ section.
If your thesis is being co-tutored please see the information on cotutelle.
In this webpage you will find a collection of the most frequently asked questions which can offer information and advice about intellectual property and open access, which carried no legal status on the part of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. You can access the information by doing a search or browsing the subject specific folders.
In the online request form you should tick the corresponding box and attach the expert reports in the ‘Attach documents’ section.
See more information about the International Doctoral Research Component.
In the online request form you should tick the corresponding box.
See the procedure for the Industrial Doctoral Research Component.
You have to make a request to do so one month before you begin the process of requesting to deposit your thesis on line, by writing to: ed.comissions@uab.cat.
Check the procedures and decisions of the Standing Committee
You have to submit the request to the Permanent Board prior to starting the online deposit application at: ed.comissions@uab.cat (about two months before starting the deposit).
You will find the documentation that you have to present in this document. The document NOT ENCRYPTED, you can send it by email to the address ed.comissions@uab.cat or take it personally to the Doctoral School and deliver it to the director of the School or to the head of the Doctoral Technical Unit.
In the online deposit application, you must ONLY include the ENCRYPTED copy of the thesis and the rest of the documentation of the usual deposit procedure. Remember that the form to inform the defense that you use must be the specific one for the thesis under protection (Thesis subject to protection processes or technology transfer).
For more information:
https://www.uab.cat/web/study/phds/theses-under-protection-1345791940706.html
https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/doctorado/junta-permanente/solicitudes-1345790822194.html
First you need to check at sia.uab.es (Online services and procedures/Research Monitoring) that the supervisor(s) and/or tutor named are those currently working with you on your thesis. If there are any changes or if the information is not correct you should contact the Doctoral Programme Coordinator (Department/Institute responsible for your PhD) as soon as possible.
In this link you will find the form to request the change of the thesis supervisor or the academic tutor of your thesis.
In the event that with this change you incorporate an external director, you must also attach this form of the external director to the UAB (download the form here).
Remember that if you modify one of your thesis supervisors or academic tutor, you must sign another commitment document.
Consult the information to do the self-registration of the thesis.
If you are the holder of a Large Family card or certification of any degree of disability issued by the Government of Catalonia and / or you have renewed it in the last year, and you have not provided us with it, you need to send a copy before making the deposit to ed.matrícula@uab.cat (you must identify yourself by indicating your ID / passport, NIU, name and surname).
If your large family card or certification of any degree of disability is issued by the rest of the communities in Spain or you have any other documents accrediting a reduction in the cost of the registration fees, please send a copy, before making the deposit, to ed.matrícula@uab.cat (you must identify yourself by indicating your ID / passport, NIU, name and surname), to study if you have the right to the deduction. Later you have to send us by post an attested copy to the following address:
Atenció a l'Usuari
Doctoral School
Floor 3 - U Building
Travessera de Can Miró, s/n - Campus UAB
08193 - Bellaterra (Barcelona)
If as a consequence of the pandemic situation you have to request a semi-presential or virtual thesis defense, it is necessary that you make the request two months before the date on which you want to defend. On this page (in Spanish) you will find the form and all the other information.
We would like to inform you of the regulations for the format of your thesis. If you would like more information about the compendium of publications format please see the ‘information related to the thesis’ section of the ‘Thesis’ tab in the file of your PhD programme.
You can also find information related on the Recommendations for preparing doctoral theses page.
Consult the academic regulations of the UAB on the format of the thesis (Chapter III. The document of the PhD thesis).
Consult and review your data of the access studies, such as that the indicated university where you did the studies that have given you access to the PhD is the correct one.
You can consult it in Sigma (File consultation), in the section 'My access data'. In the event that there is any information that is not correct, you must send a message as soon as possible to ed.expedients@uab.cat.