About the Repository

This repository contains doctoral (PhD) dissertations created and defended at the predecessors of the University of Szeged (these are not listed under the individual doctoral schools), and also at the present day integrated University.
The database was primarily populated with defended SZTE dissertations from the doctoral databases of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education and Culture OKM).
According to the decision of the Senate of the University of Szeged, after 2nd April 2010 all dissertations must be uploaded to the repository as part of the PhD procedure. At the same time the Klebelsberg Library is retrospectively digitizing and processing dissertations created before that date. Most of the documents – with regard to exceptions mentioned in the relevant government decree – are openly available from the repository.

• Higher education information systems shall comply with the Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education:
  
  53/A. §
  (1) The doctoral dissertation and its theses shall be made available for anybody. The disclosure of the doctoral dissertation and its theses may be postponed only until the date on which the patent right is registered. The doctoral schools shall ensure that the doctoral dissertation and its theses are filed and catalogued in an electronic and printed format in the central library of the University and made available for the public.
  (2) The doctoral dissertation and its theses must be made available to anybody in the Repository of Hungarian Scientific Works, issued with an identifier (DOI) in accordance with generally accepted international practice.
  (3) In the case of a doctoral dissertation protected by intellectual property or a patent, if it is requested by the candidate and supported by the assessment committee and approved by the doctoral board, the disclosure of the doctoral dissertation and its theses may be postponed until the date on which the patent right is registered. A doctoral dissertation and its theses containing classified data for reasons of national security shall be made public after the period of classification expires.
  
• Regulations governing the doctoral training programmes and the awarding of the doctoral degree

The Repository Assessment Committee of MTMT (Hungarian Academic Publications Database) certified the SZTE Repository of Doctoral Dissertations as a “Qualified Repository”. The Repository is part of the SZTE Contenta digital archive operated by the Klebelsberg Library of the University of Szeged, so the stamp of certification is posted on the Library’s webpage.

If you need any further information, please contact us at contenta@bibl.u-szeged.hu.