The library collects, compiles and makes available PhD dissertations defended at UPWr. Doctoral dissertations are available in printed or electronic form.
In accordance with Order No. 39/2021 of the Rector of UPWr, dissertations are submitted to the Library's Office before the defence.
Doctoral dissertations can be searched in:
PhD dissertations can be consulted before the defence:
The contents of defended dissertations not made available in the Open Access model can only be consulted on site, in the General Reading Room.
The full texts of doctoral dissertations in Open Access can be found in the BIP and DBC.
A PhD dissertation as a work is subject to protection under the rules set out in generally applicable legislation, in particular the Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights (Journal of Laws of 2019, item 1231, as amended).
In the case of a PhD dissertation whose subject matter is covered by a legally protected secret or in the case of the author's obligations under contracts concluded with other entities, only the abstract of the dissertation is made available.
