Aalto publication series

The series have five publication types and some of them can also have sublevels:

1. Doctoral theses (no sublevels)
2. Reports (5 sublevels)
   • report, research report, technical report, annual report,professional development report
3. Compiled works (4 sublevels)
   • compilation, conference proceedings, seminar proceedings, essay collection
4. Study materials (2 sublevels)
   • learning material, teaching material
5. Working papers (no sublevels)

The Publication platform generates the Aalto University's ISBN numbers for publications.

If you need only an ISBN number for your publication please contact us by email.

NOTE: Publication platform is available until the 30th of November 2024.

Your publication is put together on the Publication platform webservice. You need to have an Aalto user ID if you wish to make an order. Please note, that making an order, even if you are only making an electronic version, carries a charge.

If you plan to publish a doctoral thesis please see the instructions from the doctoral education's web page Publishing your doctoral thesis.

The Publication platform generates the covers and the title pages for your publication. Also the Aalto publication series' serial number and ISSN numbers as well as the Aalto University's ISBN numbers are generated automatically at the Publication platform.

The design of the covers and title pages follow the visual identity of Aalto University. You can see the cover options for different publication types when you login to the Publication platform. The colors of the covers cannot be changed.

Unfortunately we do not have templates for the content part of your publication. You can use the templates made for the doctoral theses if you wish. Or you can make the content yourself or buy a professional layout and paging services from Unigrafia or graphic designer of your choice.

Your Publication platform order goes to Unigrafia for printing.

If you have question about the printing (for example printing costs, quality of the pictures, schedules) please contact Unigrafia directly.

--> The Publication platform webservice

--> How to make an order on the Publication platform 

The metadata of the publication with Aalto University's ISBN is registered into the Aaltodoc publication archive and the metadata is published openly. The full-text of the publication is published as open access with author's permission. From Aaltodoc the publication's metadata is copied and transferred to the Aalto Research Information System ACRIS.

Open access publishing is recommended and compliant with the Aalto University goal of promoting open science. Open access publishing allows publications to be disseminated efficiently to a wider audience, thus increasing their visibility. 

--> Aaltodoc publication archive

--> How to give permission to publish my publication in Aaltodoc?

Please note that you are obligated to provide us a copy of your publication in all the formats the publication was made. Unigrafia will send us your publication in electronic format. This will be the archival copy of your publication. If you order printed copies send one copy to the Aalto University Learning Centre. We will catalog the publication to the library database and it will be available for borrowing at the Learning Centre's book collection. 

Please send the printed copy of your publication to this address:

Harald Herlin Learning Centre
Cataloging
P.O. Box 17000 (Otaniementie 9)
FI-00076 AALTO

If you have questions about the Aalto University publication series or ISBN numbers please contact us by email [email protected].

Here you can find the contact information for Unigrafia.