Frequently asked questions

RDL Tez is an open thesis archive that consolidates MSc and PhD theses into one open-access, full-text searchable archive.

Every open-access thesis is free for anyone to read.

More than 500K thesis records from 150+ universities and institutes, with tens of thousands of full-text PDFs.

Create a researcher account, verify with your university email, then go to “Upload thesis” and submit the PDF and metadata.

Approval from your university library usually completes within 5 business days; the thesis is then auto-published.

Metadata edits (keywords, abstract) go through a review window. Full-text PDF changes are stored as a new version.

Yes — for patents, trade secrets or pending publications you can pick an embargo of 6 months to 5 years. After it expires the thesis becomes open access automatically.

You can send an access request to the author/advisor. If approved, you get time-limited personal access.

Email info@rawdatalibrary.net for a detailed review; confirmed infringements are taken down within 48 hours.

Have your library write to info@rawdatalibrary.net. After a one-off onboarding you can bulk-upload all theses.

Use the institutional console with a CSV + PDF zip, or integrate via OAI-PMH.

Advisor assignments, institute changes and student records can all be batch-managed from the institutional console.

Title, abstract, keywords, author, advisor, university, institute, department, language, year, type (MSc/PhD) and full text.

Elasticsearch-backed full-text search with synonym support and faceted filtering (year, university, language).

Default by relevance, alternatives by date, download count or citation count.