• Greater visibility and citation of the thesis: theses will be harvested by meta-search engines, exponentially increasing their impact, as open access works are cited more often and earlier than those only available through subscription or printed format. Notable examples include Recolecta, Open Science Harvester in Spain, and OATD, the open access doctoral thesis meta-search engine.
• Compliance with legal requirements for Open Science and promotion of transparency and reproducibility of science.
• Perpetual access via a stable URL and long-term preservation.
• Plagiarism prevention through digital traceability.
• Possibility of interdisciplinary collaboration and international dissemination: ensuring greater accessibility of our content to the global academic community facilitates exchange and collaboration.

In exceptional circumstances determined by the program’s academic committee, such as company participation in the program, the existence of confidentiality agreements with companies, or the potential generation of patents based on the content of the thesis, the University of Seville enables a procedure to ensure non-public disclosure in relation to the defense act and the obligation to publish the thesis file in open electronic format. In these cases:

1. The doctoral thesis author must request from the program’s academic committee the restriction of public access to their thesis using the corresponding application form (T20 - Request to restrict public access to the doctoral thesis| Word), accompanied by a justification report and official documentation supporting the request not to publish the thesis openly.
2. The academic committee will issue a report to EIDUS, which will decide on the approval or denial of the request and notify the Library of the University of Seville. 

If you need more information about the request process to restrict public access to the doctoral thesis, you may 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 a digital or handwritten signature of any individual in the PDF of the thesis to be deposited in the repository.

In theses affected by confidentiality or industrial property, a PDF excluding the affected parts must be submitted for open access deposit in idUS.

In theses based on a compendium of publications, the inclusion of original articles/chapters raises concerns about copyright infringement. Therefore, it is recommended to:

1. Submit a defense version with the original articles.
2. Submit a repository version with versions permitted by publishers. Check publisher policies at:
   • Spanish journals: Dulcinea
   • International journals: Open Policy Finder

If the publisher's policy is unknown, explicit permission must be requested. If the full text cannot be deposited, include the bibliographic reference, abstract, and DOI.

Cases where the original article CAN be included:

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. Most publishers (Springer, ACS, Wiley, etc.) grant this permission easily via a form accessible in most articles. Simply select that the purpose is for a thesis and that the request is made by the author.
     - Permission request [Spanish] (WORD)
     - Permission request [English] (WORD)
3.  When published in a journal whose publisher allows inclusion of the original without requiring permission. For example, Elsevier allows the inclusion of originals in theses without restrictions: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/copyright/permissions

More information

• BUS guides on Open Access
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