This community, curated by astronomy librarians, aims to bring together astronomy and astrophysics theses and dissertations.  Share the full-text of your cumulative, graduate or PhD level, research with the world by uploading it as open-access to this subject based community.  Once added to the community, it can be indexed by ADS, searched for on Zenodo, and browsed to in the community page. The ADS indexes this community once a month.

This thematic, community-wide repository – curated by astronomy librarians and indexed by the NASA ADS – collocates theses and dissertations on astronomy and astrophysics.

Even if the ADS already lists your dissertation, you can provide open access to a free, full-text, online version of your own work.

Browse the collection | Upload your thesis

For detailed instructions on contributing see: our short video walk-through or our written walk-through.

Points to Remember!

• Include your ADS bibcode as "is alternate identifier" in the Related/alternate identifies tab near the bottom.
• Upload a machine readable PDF (use a tool like Acrobat to OCR if necessary).
• Know and enter your DOI (Digital Object Identifier).  Your institution may have issued one.  Enter your DOI in the space provided.  (Please note: DOI ≠ bibcode)
• Publication date is the year your thesis was accepted.
• Your Affiliation is your awarding university.
• The Description field is for your abstract.
• Use the Thesis tab to list your awarding university and to give credit to your supervisor.
• For Keywords, use the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus.
• The default Creative Commons Attribution license allows the ADS to use the full-text of your thesis for searching.
• Enter the References from your Works Cited section into the references tab individually. This is a nice, but optional step.
• Include related material (e.g. datasets), by providing their ID and an appropriate description on a new line within Related/alternate identifiers tab.