Master’s theses included in master’s degrees are public documents based on the Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999). Public access to theses also includes their abstracts. The thesis must include no secret information. Students can include secret information in the background material.
As a thesis supervisor, you are responsible for making sure the students take the public access to theses into account already when making a research plan and writing their thesis.
Once the thesis has been accepted and assessed in the Faculty council, the student must save their thesis in the University's electronic repository Lauda. Students should be reminded of this duty.
The publication policy of the University of Lapland states, that publications produced at the University of Lapland, including theses, are, as a rule, open. The University recommends that they be licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.
Doctoral dissertations completed at the University of Lapland are, as a rule, published in an open access electronic format in the university's Acta electronica Universitatis Lapponiensis series. The publishing platform is the institutional repository of the University of Lapland called Lauda. The dissertations can also be published by an external publisher.
The publication policy of the University of Lapland states, that publications produced at the University of Lapland, including dissertations, are, as a rule, open. The University recommends that they be licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.
You can find a description of the publication process and instructions for the doctoral researchers in the Publishing a Dissertation guide..
In the Lapland UAS students are responsible for publishing their theses in Theseus. The students must also save an electronic version of their theses on YKSA archive service.