Rules concerning legal deposit of PhD theses

PhD students are not responsible for legal deposit of their PhD thesis.

PhD theses are only subject to deposit if they have been published i.e. made available to the public with the author’s consent, for example through loan or sale.

Legal deposit of PhD theses published in printed form is carried out directly by the printing house, while digitally published dissertations are harvested automatically as part of the collection of the Danish portion of the internet. This means that regardless of the publishing format, the PhD student is not involved with depositing their thesis.

The fact that a PhD thesis is made public in print or digital format prior to the PhD defence does not in itself constitute grounds for legal deposit.