IDA Departmental Publication Resource

Publication Archive Areas for Theses

Basic idea and current location

All licentiate and doctorate theses that have been presented at IDA are listed in the IDA publication register. The department recommends authors to put their licentiate and doctorate theses on-line, although there is no obligation to do so. The department also wishes to provide a system whereby theses which have been put on-line can be held available without problems over a long period of time, even after the time the author may have left the department. The following structures are presently being set up for this purpose:

Location of the actual thesis

In order to make your thesis available on line, you have to put the file of the thesis in a well defined place in the department's Publication Area for Theses. This place is presently defined as follows. Suppose the student Persdotter has authored licentiate thesis number 0701 in the School of Engineering (tek.fak.) The full thesis will then be located in

ftp://ftp.ida.liu.se/pub/publications/lic/0701/persdotter.ps.gz

and the abstract will be held in

ftp://ftp.ida.liu.se/pub/publications/lic/0701/abstract.html

For self-documentation purposes, the file

ftp://ftp.ida.liu.se/pub/publications/lic/0701/thesis.txt

will only contain the string persdotter (followed by a CR).

Ph.D. theses are stored in a similar way but using phd instead of lic. For theses in other faculties, special coding isused.

You need to know about these directories because that's where your thesis will actually be stored. However, the names of these directories are only intended for internal use, and they may be changed at any time. For external reference, read about index pages in the next section.

It is intended to prepare a special script for transferring a thesis to these Thesis Archive Areas. Awaiting that, you prepare your thesis in your own area, and then get help from the TUS group with the transfer.

Index pages for theses

For each thesis, there is a thesis index page containing the key information about the thesis and a clickable link to where the actual text is being held. The URL of the index page for licentiate thesis number 640 in LiTH is

http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/pur/tlic/0640/

Theses in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences ("fil fak") obtain URL's like in the following example:

http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/pur/flic/0640/

Ph.D. thesis are coded similarly, but with tphd and fphd before the number.

Index pages are set up automatically by as part of the PUR service (provided by EMTEK), but the author needs to know about since when you refer to the article, you should always mention the URL of the index page and not the actual location of the file. This is because the file may be moved around in the future due to the technical requirements of the computer system, but it is intended that the index pages will be kept fixed.

Copyright and other policy issues

From the department's point of view, it is important

That the contents of the IPA directory, like all other on-line material, shall be consistent with the university's and the department's IT policies and other applicable policies.
In particular, that the IPA area is not used for storing articles on-line in violation of copyright agreements that the author may have made with publishers outside the university. Note that the application of this rule is considerably stricter since January 1, 1997.

Maintenance
information: Latest update 13.5.1999 by EMTEK group.
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