Upload your dissertation (thesis) to the library

Guidance on submitting your final dissertation to the library for public access, completing the depositor declaration and how to defer public access.

When to upload your thesis

If you have no remaining minor errors, you have 28 days from when you get your award notice to upload the final version of your dissertation.

If you have remaining minor errors when you get your award notice, you have 28 days from receiving confirmation that you have satisfactorily corrected those errors to upload the final version of your dissertation.

What you must upload

  1. An electronic version of your final dissertation (or published work and commentary) through Pure. This includes all the corrections required by the examiners. You must not include any personal information, such as email addresses or phone numbers.
  2. Depositor declaration (which is completed as part of the upload to Pure).

If you do not upload your dissertation, you will not receive your degree certificate.

Request to defer

You can ask to defer public access to your dissertation. However, you still have to upload it to the library even if you have an approved deferral.

Contact information

Pure: email on pure-support@bristol.ac.uk.

If you have any questions about the deposit process, email lib-research-support@bristol.ac.uk or call +44 (0)117 455 8124.