Refunds for printing costs

Reimbursement of printing costs

PhD candidates at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ (regardless of payroll status) are entitled to receive a reimbursement of up to €600 (including VAT) for costs associated with making copies of the dissertation available to ¹û¶³´«Ã½. This reimbursement is based on actual costs incurred. This entitlement does not exclude (other) stakeholders from reimbursing possible costs above €600,-. This reimbursement is specified in the HRM regulation .
Some conditions must be met before refunds can be paid:

  • The required printed copies of the dissertation must be supplied to the library
  • The doctoral graduate must give ¹û¶³´«Ã½ permission to offer open access to the digital version of the dissertation via the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Repository
  • More about delivery of your dissertation to the library

Only if both conditions listed above are met, the library can issue a written statement to that effect. The doctoral graduate can submit this statement to his/her department to support a request for a printing costs refund.

The library issues the statement, but has no further involvement in the refund regulations.

Extra refund for commercial edition of dissertation

A doctoral graduate whose dissertation is published exclusively as a commercial edition is required to supply 3 hard copies to the library. The library will then pay a € 25,- compensation. This has no further relation with refund arrangements at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ departments.

Points of attention if you are publishing your dissertation as a commercial edition

Contact

Contact your department for more information/questions about the reimbursement.
For library related questions about your thesis: Library.PhDThesis@tue.nl