Submission of Doctoral Theses
The Dissertations Department at the University Library – Hochschulschriftenstelle
Please contact us before the submission of your thesis under hsstelle@ub.fu-berlin.de. If possible, please avoid coming to the Dissertations Department without a prior arrangement. Appointments can be made at any time by email.
In principle you can send printed and microfiche copies by post. Please address your shipment to:
Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin
Hochschulschriftenstelle
Garystr. 39
14195 Berlin
The team of the Dissertations Department will inform you by email as soon as your shipment has been received and processed.
In addition, you have the contactless option to deposit your printed and microfiche copies well packaged and labeled in the orange book-drop box for returns to the left of the University library main entrance at Garystraße 39.
For further questions please do not hesitate to contact us at hsstelle@ub.fu-berlin.de.
Room 66 (ground floor)
14195 Berlin
The Dissertations Department at the University Library collects all copies of doctoral theses written at Freie Universität Berlin that candidates are required to submit according to the regulations concerning doctoral graduation. These copies are either archived or exchanged with other institutions; the required number of copies is specified in the respective regulations.
Doctoral candidates are obliged to make their theses available to the wider academic community by providing such copies for circulation, a general principle laid down by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the federate states in the Federal Republic of Germany on 20 October 1997. Exchange of theses with the libraries of other universities is organised by the Dissertations Department.
The relevant and applicable regulations concerning the materials that candidates are required to submit to the Dissertations Department are those that were in force at the time the student was admitted to the doctoral program. Any variance at all from these regulations can be decided on by the appropriate Department Council only (see also: Doctoral Graduation Regulations).
The Dissertations Department assists doctoral candidates in dealing with the respective regulations.
If and when regulations are fulfilled, the Dissertations Department issues receipts for candidates to present at their departments as prerequisite for receiving their doctoral certificate.
Observe the Guidelines for Doctoral Theses.
Storing Digital Theses on the Document Server (Refubium)
For information on how to submit a doctoral or habilitation thesis in electronic form click here.