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Utrecht University promotes open sharing of knowledge, that is why students may indicate when uploading their Master's thesis in OSIRIS if they agree to making their thesis publicly available.

Submitting your thesis

You upload your thesis in OSIRIS. Follow the link to learn more about . In OSIRIS you can indicate if you want your thesis to be made publicly available. We do not make Bachelor's theses publicly available.

Findability of your thesis

Have you chosen to make your thesis publicly available? Then it will be done by means of a Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC-ND.

Your thesis will then be: 

• publicly and freely accessible via the  Please read the manual to get the best search results
• also findable in  and .
• publlicly available for a fifteen-year period.

Changing the publication status

Has your master thesis already been published and would you like to make adjustments? Please contact the library via library@uu.nl.

Have you decided not to publish your master thesis or have you set an embargo date and would you like to see that changed so that your thesis is made publicly available? Please send an email to your . State the reasons why you want to change the publication status or embargo date. Have you written the thesis together with a fellow student? Don't forget to inform the other author(s).

Please check the page about for more information.

Taking your thesis offline 

Master theses are online for a fifteen-year period, after that period they are always taken offline. Do you want your thesis taken offline earlier? Please send a request to the library by filling in the form . 

Privacy statement 

Utrecht University treats personal data as confidential when publishing your thesis. More information about how Utrecht University handles personal data in relation to your thesis can be found in the privacy statement.