Publication / Completion

Publication / Completion (Publikation / Vollzug)

Publication is only possible after confirmation of the grades by the Doctoral Committee/Promotionsausschuss (PST) and after notification by the doctoral office!

The required templates and documents can be found under “Documents and Services” – “Publication”.
Doctoral Thesis-Publication version: Infos Design Cover Page and Title Page: https://ub.fau.de/forschen/dissertationenstellen/#collapse_2
If you have any further questions, please refer to our FAQs or contact the team at the Dissertationsstellen der Universitätsbibliothek der FAU.

 

The following forms of Publication (see also the valid Doctoral Regulations/Promotionsordnungen PromO) are possible:

Option 1: Electronic publication (OPEN FAU)

The signed application form „Antrag auf Vollzug“ must be submitted to the Economic and Social Sciences Branch Library in Nürnberg (E-Mail: ub-wszb-diss@fau.de).

Contact (Upload and possibly Blocking Notice (Sperrvermerk): Dissertationsstelle der Universitätsbibliothek (UB) in Erlangen, E-Mail: ub-repo@fau.de.

Infos/Instructions for publication in OPEN FAU: https://ub.fau.de/haeufig-gestellte-fragen-faq/open-fau/#collapse_36316 (upload with IDM ID or FAU e-mail address) or FAQs OPEN FAU;

Cover Page and Title Page for Publication version (Veröffentlichungsfassung):
The Cover Page (Deckblatt), means the cover of the dissertation, must be designed for electronic publication (OPEN FAU) in accordance with the Framework doctoral regulations (RPromO 2024) in accordance with the FAU corporate design. Templates can be found here on the intranet or contact FAU Brand Office/ Dissertationsstelle der Universitätsbibliothek (UB) in Erlangen, E-Mail: ub-repo@fau.de.
Templates and Infos can be found on our website Documents and Services-Publication and https://ub.fau.de/forschen/dissertationenstellen/#collapse_2

For Essay-based dissertations: Please remember to add a Blocking Notice (Sperrvermerk) to your thesis when uploading if parts of essay-based dissertations are still in the review process. Please send this – signed by you and your reviewer – to the doctoral office for approval and subsequent forwarding to the library.
You can find the document at Documents and Service – Publication.

 

Option 2: Publishing publication/Verlagspublikation

The application for a publisheing publication and publishing contract (minimum number of copies: 150) must be submitted to the Economic and Social Sciences Branch Library in Nuremberg (E-mail: ub-wszb-diss@fau.de); Copie (Cc) doctoral office.
Within one year (date of the oral examination) 6 copies of the book printed by the publisher must be handed in at the Economics and Social Sciences Branch Library together with the application for completion

Contact: Economic and Social Sciences Branch Library in Nuremberg, Email: ub-wszb-diss@fau.de.

 

Option 3: FAU University Press

The signed application form must be submitted to the Economic and Social Sciences Branch Library in Nuremberg (E-mail: ub-wszb-diss@fau.de) before you have signed the FAU publishing contract. 6 copies must be submitted if the complete work marked as a dissertation is also published electronically by  the FAU University Press (https://www.university-press.fau.de)

Contact: FAU University Press, E-mail: university-press@fau.de

 

Doctoral Certificate / Doktorurkunde

After confirmation of successful publication by the library and the candidate has fulfilled all obligations, the doctoral degree is awarded by handing over the doctoral certificate (Completion).
Only after receiving the doctoral certificate does the doctoral candidate have the right to use the doctoral title.