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9 January, deadline for depositing your thesis

9 January, deadline for depositing your thesis

9 January is the deadline for depositing your FME thesis. If you are a student and you are finishing your thesis, this bulletin will be of interest to you. You will find resources and advice that will help you to finish it successfully. 

 

Thesis defence calendar (FME)
New process (FME)
Thesis regulations (FME)

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Academic Regulations for Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the UPC

Academic Regulations for Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the UPC


Section 3.5 of the Academic Regulations for Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the UPC establishes that theses are deposited in UPCommons, the UPC’s institutional repository, in open access, and that authors can indicate a Creative Commons licence and state the conditions of use of their work that they authorise.

If the works are subject to confidentiality restrictions (Section 3.1.5), when students deposit the thesis they must submit the confidentiality statement for academic works, signed by the tutor, that can be downloaded from the FME intranet.

NAGRAMA
Confidentiality document

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6 steps to making your thesis a success

6 steps to making your thesis a success

In this resource we show you how to:

  • Use your sources of information appropriately.
  • Cite quickly and following a standard format.
  • Compile a bibliography that is clear using a bibliographic reference manager.
  • Structure the thesis appropriately and follow numbering and pagination recommendations and presentation criteria.
  • Prepare your defence.
  • Decide where you are going to publish it.

Access to the 6 steps

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Who holds the author's rights to my thesis?

Who holds the author's rights to my thesis?

According to the Regulations on Industrial and Intellectual Property Rights at the UPC (CG/2018/08/05 of 20 November 2018), the authorship and exploitation rights of their theses, and of any inventions they develop, belong to the students.

As the author of the work, you may grant a Creative Commons licence that allows you to tell those who intend to use the work what uses are permitted and under what conditions.

The UPC has the right to use the works and inventions for academic, teaching and research activities.

Works subject to agreements with companies are governed by the clauses in the agreements on the confidentiality and/or ownership of the industrial and intellectual property rights of the results. 

Further information
Creative Commons licences

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There are only advantages choosing open-access publishing for your thesis!

There are only advantages choosing open-access publishing for your thesis!

Choosing open-access publishing in the Academic Works repository in UPCommons for your thesis, you'll see that there are only advantages:

  • You make it easier for others to access it online.
  • You increase its accessibility.
  • You give it visibility.
  • You protect the work against plagiarism.
  • You conserve the work.
  • You make it easier for people to contact you regarding the work

Advantages of open-access publishing
Academic Works repository

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Do you know how to prevent academic plagiarism?

Do you know how to prevent academic plagiarism?

Follow these recommendations.

  • Use your own ideas.
  • Only use other authors' ideas to support your own.
  • Include the complete citation for every work when you take notes.
  • Use quotation marks when you copy the words of another author directly.
  • Write a first draft using your own ideas without any notes from the documents consulted.
  • When you read a document and take notes, indicate clearly the fragments you have copied word for word.
  • Be rigorous in your research.
  • Compile data and results correctly.
  • Always revise your work before you hand it in.

Further information

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Plagiarism prevention procedure (UPC)

Plagiarism prevention procedure (UPC)

According to the Plagiarism prevention procedure used by the Governing Council of the UPC on October 8, 2019, the university establishes a protocol to detect and prevent plagiarism, prior to the deposit, of the Final Degree Project, Final Project Project. Master and Doctoral Thesis. The professors for each degree will provide information, sufficiently in advance, on how the procedure will be applied at the FME.

Access to the document

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Why did I choose open-access publishing for my thesis?

Why did I choose open-access publishing for my thesis?

I sincerely believe that all knowledge must be made known to society, and it shouldn't always be property protected by copyright.”

I thought it might be useful for people who want to continue this research. Also, if they end up applying for grants they can add the link to the thesis to their CV so that their work is always visible.”

I think sharing knowledge between us is a beautiful thing.”

I think having this kind of document open to the public is positive for all of us, both users and authors. I myself used theses to carry out research for my own, and I think it's right to share it.”

What led me to choose open-access publishing was that it could help future students to choose and successfully develop a topic for their thesis, since it helped me a lot to see how deep students went on the topics they chose.”

(Replies by former students at the FME)
 


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