Law: PhD Students

ORCID is a digital authentication for researchers.

The minimum requirement for an ORCID are all variations of your name and a list of affilitions. 

ORCID connects all possible variations of your name in published research, for instance:

Full main name: Thomas Andrew Smith

Other variations: TA Smith, Thomas A Smith, Tom Smith

 How to apply for an ORCID:

1. Register on this link to orcid.org
2. Check ‚Everyone‘ in the Visibility settings
3. Activate your ORCID by replying to the confirmation email from ORCID
4. On your ORCID page add all variations of your name and affiliations

ISBN:

All theses must have an ISBN. Please email Kristína Benedikz kristinab@ru.is at RU library and request an ISBN for your electronic thesis. If you intend to print out your thesis, you must also ask for a print version ISBN. In the email, include the thesis title, department and the author ORCID. 

• Both ISBNs should appear in both versions (electronic and print).
• The ISBNs should be on the backside of the title page.
• The author's ORCID should also be on the backside of the title page.  

Submitting electronic versions of the PhD thesis
From 2025, all theses in Reykjavik University must be submitted to the IRIS repository. It is optional for students to give the library a printed copy to be added to the collection. Doctoral theses should be accessible to all following Reykjavik's University Open Access Policy.

From 2016-2024, electronic versions of doctoral theses were preserved in the repository Opin vísindi.

Suppose a doctoral thesis contains journal articles that the publisher does not allow to be accessible in a repository. In that case, students should submit them in a separate file in IRIS and specify the embargo and reason for closed access. Authors are also requested to inform the library when publishers allow access to the articles in IRIS.

If any problems arise regarding submitting to IRIS, please contact the library: library@ru.is.