• Academic communication is currently very fast. The rapid availability for access provided by the Internet is much more beneficial compared to accessing the printed document.
• Research shows that works available on the Internet in open access are cited more often and earlier than works that are only available by subscription or loan in print format.
• Your doctoral thesis can be harvested by repositories like Recolecta, Spain's Open Science Harvester, and OATD, the metasearch engine for open access doctoral theses, which will exponentially increase the visibility of your work and, therefore, the possibility of receiving citations.
• It will facilitate control over potential plagiarism of your work.
• Open access research works can reach a large audience with unpredictable consequences: new possibilities for interdisciplinary research, unexpected collaborations, etc.
• A stable URL for your thesis can be included in your CV and emailed to your colleagues 

In exceptional circumstances determined by the program's academic committee, such as, among others, the participation of companies in the program, the existence of confidentiality agreements with companies, or the possibility of generating patents related to the thesis content, the University of Seville enables a procedure that ensures non-disclosure in relation to the defense act and the duty to publish the thesis file in open electronic format. In these cases:

1. The author of the doctoral thesis must request the program's academic committee to limit public access to their doctoral thesis using the corresponding application form (T20 - Request for limitation of public access to doctoral thesis | Word), which must be accompanied by a justificatory report and official documentation justifying the request for non-publication of their doctoral thesis in open access.
2. The academic committee will issue a report addressed to EIDUS, which will decide on the authorization or denial of the submitted request, and this will be forwarded to the University of Seville Library. 

If you need more information about the process for requesting a limitation on public access to your doctoral thesis, you can send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Do not include personal data or any administrative document containing an electronic signature or rubric of any person in the PDF of the thesis to be deposited in the repository.

For theses affected by confidentiality or industrial property, a PDF that excludes the parts affected by confidentiality or industrial property will be submitted for deposit in open access in idUS.

In theses by compendium of publications, the inclusion of original articles/chapters raises questions about copyright infringement by the publisher. Therefore, it is recommended to submit a PDF document with the original publications for the thesis defense and a second PDF copy containing the permitted versions of the publications for deposit in the repository.

Cases of theses by compendium of publications where an original article can be included in the thesis repository:

1. When the article has been published in Open Access.
2. When express permission has been requested from the publisher to include the original in the thesis. The vast majority of publishers (Springer, ACS, Wiley, etc.) grant this permission easily, by requesting it through the link that appears in most articles leading to a form. It is sufficient to select that the destination is the thesis, and that the author is the one requesting it.
3. When it has been published in a journal whose publishers grant permission without the need to request it. For example, Elsevier allows the inclusion of originals in theses without any restrictions https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/copyright/permissions

Recommendations for cases where an original article/chapter cannot be included in the thesis repository:

1. For articles, you can consult Sherpa-Romeo for international journals and Dulcinea for Spanish journals. These databases indicate the version of the article that can be deposited in open access: the submitted version (Pre-print), the accepted version (Post-Print), or the published version with an embargo.
2. For book chapters, if not published as Open Access, permission must be requested from the publisher to include it in the thesis.
3. Submit the PDF containing the versions permitted by the publishers for deposit in idUS.
4. If the author has assigned the rights and no version of the full text of the article or book chapter can be published, they will be replaced by the bibliographic reference, abstract, and URL (DOI) to the article.