Submission of Thesis

Before the thesis can be submitted, the organized academic training must be completed.

The submission of the thesis must be recommended by the supervisor.

If the work contains joint publications involving the supervisor(s) or other authors, it must be made evident how the candidate's work can be identified in the preface of the thesis (see example below).

"Contributions
I performed all work on which this thesis is based. (Name) contributed significantly to the planning and running of the experiment in paper I, and (Name) and (Name) contributed to the planning of the experiments in paper II, III and IV and where involved in the final stages of writing for all the papers in the thesis."

A statement from co-authors must be submitted together with the thesis.

An application for assessment of the thesis (with a recommendation from the main supervisor and the Department) together with the proposal of an evaluation committee must be submitted to the Faculty at least three months before the public defence.

Appointment of evaluation committee (Norwegian only)

5 printed copies of the thesis are to be submitted together with the application for assessment of the thesis:

• one for each of the members of the evaluation committee (3 persons)
• one for the supervisor
• one for the department/faculty

The committee is to submit a joint detailed report within 5 weeks before the public defence. The candidate may submit written comments about the report within 14 days.

The final version of the thesis should not be printed before the committee has approved the thesis for public defence.

After submission of the thesis, the doctoral candidate can only make corrections of a formal character, and an errata sheet detailing all such corrections must be submitted 4 weeks before the date of the public defence.

Print

ISBN-number and ISSN-number should be ordered online before the order from the publisher is made. (The date of the public defence decides which year the doctoral degree is completed, and this should also be reflected in the serial number).

Printing can be ordered from NTNU-trykk or from Tapir Uttrykk.
NTNU-trykk is cheaper than Tapir, and the Departments usually prefer that NTNU-trykk is used for publishing doctoral thesis.

The number of copies, distribution and economic conditions are decided by the Department/ supervisor.
Around five days after the thesis has been given to the publisher, the candidate receives a temporary version of the thesis for proofreading. The candidate gets 3-4 days for proofreading (try to avoid too many rounds). The final printed version is ready aprox. 5-6 days after the last proof is submitted.

All candidates must deliver an electronic version of their doctoral thesis to the library for the archive and for electronic publication. (This comes in addition to the submission of the printed version).

It is possible to be exempt from electronic publication, but the thesis still needs to be submitted electronically for the archive.

Information can be found on: www.ntnu.edu/ub/diva

Please contact dravh@ub.ntnu.no if you have any questions or comments.

• One copy to each of the committee members, as well as the Chair of the public defence (Head of Department or Assistant Head of Department)
• 6 copies to the Department
• 2 copies to the Faculty
• The censor's version is given to the administrator of the committee.

A prescribed subject for the public trial lecture will be announced to the candidate 14 days prior to the day of the lecture. The subject will be forwarded to the candidate's NTNU e-mail address unless it is specifically asked for it to be sent elsewhere. Please notify the faculty at postmottak@nt.ntnu.no if another email address is preferred. The subject can also be collected at the Faculty's administration office.

Public holidays etc will not prolong the 14 days period.

Make sure to check that the auditorium and the equipment is in order the day before the public defence.

The trial lecture and public defence is preferably given on the same day. The trial lecture is to be held before the public defence. The trial lecture usually starts at 10.15 a.m. and the public defence at 1.15 p.m. There will be time for an hour lunch between the trial lecture and the public defence.

The phone number of the caretaker in the main building (Gløshaugen) is: 95406/ 95409

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