Thesis deposit

Deposit of doctoral thesis is in electronic form in Clermont-Ferrand since January 1, 2011.
This deposit is a legal obligation, it conditions the delivery of your doctoral degree.

For medical dissertations, refer to the websites of these UFR: medicine, pharmacy et odontology.

From 2023, you must submit your thesis file yourself on the ADUM platform: https://www.adum.fr/index.pl?site=educa

Training

To help you in your work, libraries offer you training on:

• technical issues: software, style sheets, etc.
• documentary research (how to access what you are looking for)

Writing and style sheet

To make processing your file as easy as possible, you will help us:

• using styles for titles
• ensuring the presence of all these elements on the first page:
  • university of thesis defense
  • doctoral school
  • partner research unit
  • thesis title and subtitle
  • thesis author
  • thesis director
  • exact defense date: day, month, year
  • list of jury members mentioning their status (jury president, director, rapporteur, etc.): this list must be identical to that of the defense report.

Thesis deposit

From 2023, you must submit your thesis file yourself on the ADUM platform.
Access to ADUM UCA: https://www.adum.fr/index.pl?site=educa
 

Conservation and dissemination

By signing the Authorization of diffusion, you will state your decision about the diffusion of your thesis (Internet or restricted diffusion).

Choosing the Internet diffusion, you choose to be visible on theses.fr and HAL Thèses.

Theses.fr is the french thesis portal of the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education.

HAL Thèses is a part of HAL, the French Science Open Repository, dedicated to theses.

Disseminating your thesis is a first step towards promoting your work. By disseminating your research work, you participate in the movement of free access to research for all; you participate in the sharing and transmission of knowledge.
Regardless of your position regarding distribution, a full digital copy will be sent to the National Computer Center for Higher Education (CINES) to be kept there as a heritage document.
Unless a confidentiality clause is imposed on you, your thesis will be made available to the university community and disseminated within the University via Intranet whatever your choice of dissemination (see the Order of May 25, 2016 setting the national framework of training and the modalities leading to the issuance of the national doctoral diploma).
You also retain the possibility of distributing your work, whether for free or commercially.

The distribution of your thesis on the internet is subject to your sole authorization. You can at any time revoke the distribution authorization that you gave when submitting your thesis, by contacting the person in charge of managing the theses defended within your defense establishment (your STAR correspondents)
NB: the distribution of your thesis via the legal deposit circuit is automatically followed by distribution on HAL.
 

Contacts

• Mireille Favard (mireille.favard@uca.fr) at the Cézeaux BU
• Catherine Falchetto (catherine.falchetto@uca.fr) at the Law, Economics, Management BU

Consult thesis online