Regulation as from January 2008
TU/e may pay doctoral students a refund for printing expenses of their dissertations. This refund is paid by the University departments where students did doctoral research. The following requirements must be met in order to obtain this refund:

• Each doctoral student is to supply 2 printed copies of his or her dissertation to the Library.
  3 copies are to be supplied if a commercial edition is published.
  See: Dissertations Delivery
• The doctoral student will permit TU/e to publish an electronic version of the dissertation on the TU/e public website. This permission is to be given by supplying an electronic version (preferably PDF format) to the Library and signing a statement confirming permission.
  See: Dissertations Delivery

• Only if these requirements are both met, the Library will issue a written statement to this effect to the doctoral student. The doctoral student can use this statement when submitting a request for refund for printing expenses to his or her University department. For further information about the amount of the refund, please contact your department. In this case no refund will be paid by the Library.

*) A doctoral student who has his or her dissertation published by a commercial publisher and relinquishes his or her copyright, and can therefore not meet the second requirement, should nevertheless meet the first and supply 3 printed copies to the TU/e Library. For these copies the Library pays a refund of € 25,-

See the website of the Office of Doctoral Presentations and Academic Ceremonies for detailed information for doctoral students.

The TU/e Library began to make the full text of TU/e dissertations available on the Library website in 1999. Thus, dissertations from TU/e are now easily accessible both as a group and separately via the Library catalogue and via links from other parts of the TU/e website.

URL http://w3.tue.nl/en/services/library/digilib/publications_from_tue/dissertations/

TU/e attaches great value to this means of making important results of scientific research available to the world.
The advantage of this method of publication is that dissertation texts are easy to find for many people and are available world-wide via the Internet. An increasing number of universities in The Netherlands and abroad place their dissertations on their websites. 

If for any reason you do not wish to give permission of your dissertation on the Library website, please inform us. 

Mrs. Drs. J.C.M. Figdor
TU/e Librarian