Read our guide for more information about writing a thesis or dissertation using LaTeX in Overleaf.
The guide offers tips and tools for writing your LaTeX thesis or dissertation in Overleaf, including templates, managing references, adding tables, images, and graphs, and other getting-started guides.
The open access (OA) model supports wider dissemination of knowledge and scholarly research in digital form and available online. It allows to access scientific literature free of charge with limited restrictions to re-use the research. OA publishing increases the research visibility so that knowledge is easily accessible by the global research community.
Want to know more about OA policies of your chosen publisher and funder? Verify Publisher self-archiving terms in the guide OA Publishing can give you more information.
Library's guide on Open Access Publishing can give you more insights on how to publish open access journals, categories of OA publishing, how to choose and evaluate OA publishers, ways to make research OA, identify predatory publishers, and more.
The MBZUAI community is encouraged to deposit scholarly work in the institutional repository - MBZUAI eCommons, the purpose of which is to curate and preserve an affiliated research output and make it available free of charge to a broader community. Read more information on Submission Guidelines and University’s Open Access & Copyright available in the MBZUAI Digital Library Guide.
Please refer to guidelines Protect your rights as author available in the open access (OA) publishing guide.
The guide provides information about the author’s rights over OA publication, intellectual property rights, how to negotiate agreements, and author addendums.
IThenticate is a plagiarism checking tool, used by major scholarly publishers and research institutions to screen manuscript submissions and verify originality, and appropriate use and citation of the third-party work.
MBZUAI iThenticate service is available for use by faculty, researchers, and students who would like to review their MBZUAI-affiliated work before submission to a publisher.
Are you interested in screening your manuscript before submitting it to a publisher?
Please raise a request for use of this tool by completing the online form or on the library website under services.
Read our guide on iThenticate at MBZUAI for more information.
Please remember course assignments are assessed using Turnitin which is available on Moodle.