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LAB Vinkkejä opinnäytetyön ohjaajille: Theseus – instructor's check list

Thesis' supervisor - check these carefully

Allow student make submission to Theseus only for final and approved version of his/her thesis: pdf/a file needs to be completely finished! However, the submission must be done before the student is marked as a graduate in Peppi, because Theseus is logged in with LAB student IDs. Student cannot edit, change or take away a thesis he/she has saved in Theseus: once the library has published the thesis in Theseus, the pdf/a of the thesis is immediately available for download from the open network.  As an exception, theses published in the restricted collection: reading them is only possible from the designated workstations of the Lahti and Lappeenranta libraries. The library will process the saved theses as soon as possible. Please note that there is a longer delay in handling theses submissions and responding to emails during the library's summer and Christmas holidays.

Pdf submitted to Theseus needs to be accessible and in format pdf/a. In Theseus is page with instructions for accessibility issues and how to save pdf as pdf/a.

Note! The licence agreements of e-materials acquired in the library specify the rights and restrictions of use of the material. You can find information on these in the library guide. The rules of use apply, for example, to printing, linking, and source referencing.

Pay attention to these issues before allowing submission to Theseus:

  • The title page match for given template: layout and contents are accurate.
  • The thesis written in English has abstract. Finnish written thesis also has abstract in Finnish (tiivistelmä).
  • Numbering of chapters and pages continues faultlessly and there is no bookmark errors in the table of contents.
  • Source references exists - also for pictures, charts and tables.
  • List of references is made according to Harvard system (name/year reference) and references are in alphabetical order.
  • In the end of the pdf and in the table of contents is title APPENDICES only when the thesis has one or more appendices.
    • Appendices have titles Appendix 1, Appendix 2 etc. and numbering continues faultlessly.
    • The table of contents corresponds with existing of appendices.
  • The name of UAS is correct in the title page and in the abstract: LAB University of Applied Sciences. Also logo used is LAB's.
  • There are no empty pages in the pdf: not in the middle nor the last page.
  • The name of thesis is same in the title page and in the abstract.
  • Document Thesis guidebook for Bachelor's thesis/for Master's thesis includes instructions in chapter 4.3 for matters to be kept secret.
  • The thesis and its appendices do not contain data privacy issues, such as signature(s), student number(s), or contact information of a student or an outside person.
    • LAB email address may exist in appendices.

 

Publishing thesis

The thesis is a part of a higher education degree that must be open to assessment. Approved theses are public, based on Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999). Publishing thesis reports guarantees their objective and fair assessment.

LAB publishes theses in open repository Theseus. If not published in Theseus, thesis must be sent to LAB archive. In this case bibliographic description will be saved into database of LUT Academic Library. This information is publicly available. More information can be asked by email theseus@lab.fi.