Publish reports, dissertations and licentiate theses
Karlstad University Studies (KUS)
Karlstad University Studies is the University’s official publication series for research reports, doctoral dissertations and licentiate theses. The series is administrated by Karlstad University Press.
What are the faculties rules for dissertations and licentiate theses?
Here are the collected regulations for third-cycle studies at Karlstad University (see chapter 8. for licentiate and doctoral theses regulations)
Formatting
There are specific guidelines as regards font, headings and format for publications within Karlstad University Studies. The guidelines are voluntary and are intended to enable those that use Word to design a publication that fits in with the University’s graphic profile. It is also possible to download a Word template which has been specifically developed for publications in our report series. At present no similar guidelines have been developed for word processing software other than Word.
Correction- and printing process
Our checklist explains the different steps in the correction- and printing process:
Sale of publications
Karlstad University Press (KUP) can help you sell publications within Karlstad University Studies if an agreement has been reached with the author or institution. If you are interested, please contact:
Electronic publication
According to Vice-Chancellor's Decision No 110/04 all monograph theses, comprehensive summaries of compilation theses and reports included in the research report series should also be published electronically, unless this is prohibited for copyright reasons. Before publication the author needs to sign a publishing agreement according to which he/she undertakes to agree to these conditions. The document will be made available to the author by the publishing support team well in advance. The electronic publication takes place after the thesis/report has been approved for printing (to ensure that the electronic version does not differ from the printed publication).
Copyright and licensing
As the author, you hold the copyright to your publication (or to the introductory “kappa” in the case of a compilation thesis).
In accordance with Karlstad University’s Policy for Scholarly Publishing, we recommend that you apply a Creative Commons licence to indicate to readers/users what they are permitted to do with your work. More information about the available licences and what they entail can be found via the National Library of Sweden. If, for any reason, you do not wish to, or are contractually unable to, allow your work to be assigned a licence, we will publish it without one.
The licence that has increasingly become a standard for openly available research, and which is recommended by many research funders, is CC BY. If you choose this licence, the following copyright and licensing information will appear on the title page of your work:
| © The Author. This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), unless otherwise stated. |
Please inform the publishing support team of your chosen licence as early as possible in the publication process.
Contact: publiceringsstod@kau.se