Guidelines for submitting your thesis

To save your thesis to NettiOpsu you will need a basic user account and your thesis in pdf format.
If you don't have a basic user account, request help from tutkielmat@uta.fi or by phone at 040 190 4259 or 040 190 9746.

To ask about printing, please contact: Yliopistopaino, e-mail gradupaino@uta.fi  or by phone at 020 756 8683 (or customer service 020 756 8693).

Master's thesis, Advanced thesis, Medicine and Minor subject thesis

Submit your thesis and the other information needed to NettiOpsu after you have confirmed with your supervisor that your thesis is completely ready for the examination and approvals procedure.

The official examination process commences once your thesis has been delivered to the School concerned. If you are on a tight schedule, please check with the School office that your thesis has indeed been received. Tampereen Yliopistopaino Oy - Juvenes Print has undertaken to deliver your thesis within four days of your having submitted your thesis with other necessary information to NettiOpsu.

Licentiate thesis

Submit your licentiate thesis to NettiOpsu after it's been corrected and examined. Three bound copies of the licentiate thesis should be submitted to the School office for the purposes of examination. Other instructions pertaining to the examination and approval of the thesis, likewise schedules and procedures can be found in the postgraduate guides of the respective Schools.

A licentiate thesis can be included on the agenda of a faculty council meeting only after an examined, and corrected version printed by the Juvenes Print has been received by the School. The Juvenes Print undertakes to provide one copy of the thesis to the School and another one to the Library within four days of your having submitted it with all the necessary information to NettiOpsu.

1. Submitting your thesis to NettiOpsu

• Familiarise yourself with the School instructions on theses. Ensure that these instructions have been updated to correspond with the new form of delivery.
• Be meticulous when finishing your thesis. Proofread it one more time
• The margins should be of equal width, 2 cm is enough. The page numbering should be in the middle of each page, either at the top or at the bottom. Begin numbering pages only from the introduction (bodycopy).
• Theses will be printed double-sided if the page count exceeds 60
• Save your thesis in one single file in pdf format under your own name, e.g. (Virtanen_gradu.pdf). Use a computer with a suitable program to create a pdf. Acrobat Reader is not suitable for the task.
• Read these instructions for creating a pdf file. If you are unsuccessful, please notify Juvenes Print, where you will be provided with assistance at a cost. Alternatively, contact the help address given in the instructions.
• Check that the pdf version corresponds to the original version with regard to page settings and other details, and that the file also contains a title page (i.e. a page with your own name, the title of the thesis and the department etc.) and an abstract. Please remember that the responsibility for the correctness of the file rests with you.

2. If the thesis has several authors

• Specify in NettiOpsu (tick the box), if the thesis has more than one author. All authors must submit the thesis and other necessary information to NettiOpsu. The thesis will be archived under the student's name, that is why the information is required from all the authors.

3. Information about the thesis

• Submit information about the name, language and number of pages of your thesis to NettiOpsu.

4. Abstract

• Copy the abstract of your thesis to NettiOpsu. It will be extracted from there to the database and published online with the information about your thesis. But the abstract must be a part of the pdf-file of your thesis.

5. Keywords

• You can enter keywords that describe the content of your thesis in NettiOpsu

6. Permission to Publish

• Carefully read through the Permission to Publish in NettiOpsu. Make sure you have the copyright to the pictures, diagrams or other material in you thesis or you have acquired permission to publish these online. Information on copyright can be found e.g.here: http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Tekijaenoikeus/?lang=en
• Give consent to the publication of your thesis and its abstract online or choose "I do not grant" if you choose not to give permission. If you give permission to publish your thesis online the University will meet the costs of printing three copies of your thesis (for the School and the Library use, black and white only).For licentiate thesis the number of copies is two (for the School and the Library use). If you decline to have your work published online, the printing costs of the thesis will be charged to you.

7. Copies of the thesis you pay for

• For your own use, you may also order copies of the thesis which must be paid for. Also possible colour pages must be paid for by you. Make these orders through NettiOpsu.

Suomen Yliopistopaino Oy - Juvenes Print Pricelist

under 70 pages        10,90 e
71-110 pages          13,00 e
111-150 pages        15,00 e
151-180 pages        18,15 e
separate pricing for texts over 181 pages. Please consult the Juvenes Print.

• Prices include one black-and-white copy of a thesis in standard cover.
• If you order colour pages at your own expense, these will be added to every copy produced (also to the copies for the Library and the School) and charged to you (58 cents per colour page).
• If you also wish to order more expensive hard back and front covers, please contact Juvenes Print .
• Collect the copies ordered for your own use from Juvenes Print or provide a delivery address in NettiOpsu.
• Theses will be sent 'Cash on Delivery' and you will be expected to pay the current cost of ‘cash on delivery' in addition to printing and carriage
• If later on you wish to order more copies of your thesis, please contact Juvenes Print

8. Suomen Yliopistopaino Oy - Juvenes Print

• Juvenes Print will forward 2 copies of the thesis to the School or the discipline concerned, for examination purposes, and one copy to the Library, for their collections and subsequent archiving. One of the two copies of a licentiate thesis will be forwarded to the School and the other one to the Library.

9.  Library

• will publish your thesis and its abstract online at the address http://tutkielmat.uta.fi, if you have given permission.
• The thesis will be published, when information about its approval has reached the Library. The grade will not be disclosed online. 
• will catalogue the electronic and paper versions of the thesis in Tamcat, and add the paper version received from Juvenes Print to its thesis collection. The thesis will be preserved in the Library indefinitely.
• The evaluation of the thesis will not be added to the Library collection; this can only be obtained from the department concerned upon request.

Further information:

on printing from Yliopistopaino, gradupaino@uta.fi or by phone at 020 756 8683 (or customer service 020 756 8693).
on online publishing tutkielmat@uta.fi or by phone at 040 190 4259 or 040 190 9746.