Electronic Thesis & Dissertations

Fall 2009 ETD Presentation

Background

• Fee schedule
• UMI policy on Google searches

Important Dates to Remember

• CLAS calendar
• KUMC Graduate Calendar
• KU Libraries Instructional Services workshops

Preparing Your Manuscript

• Office of Student Success
• KU Writing Center Dissertation Writing Group
• Copyright Information
• Protecting Your Own Work and Respecting the Work of Others
  • ETDs and Digital Scholarship
• Multimedia, Images, and PDF: Creating Effective and Enduring Digital Files (PDF version here)
  • BudigOne Digital Workspace

Responsible Research

• Research & Graduate Studies (RGS) Research Integrity
  

Formatting Instructions and Title and Acceptance Pages

• Thesis instructions (PDF) updated September 18, 2009
• Dissertation instructions (PDF) updated September 18, 2009

Creating the PDF Version of Your Manuscript

• Creating a PDF File
• Have a question on PDF creation? Email training@ku.edu or call (785) 864-0410.

Submitting Your Thesis/Dissertation Electronically

• ProQuest/UMI KU Electronic Dissertation and Thesis Submission Site

KU ScholarWorks

• Release form to deposit thesis/dissertation in KU ScholarWorks
• KU ScholarWorks

Thesis and Dissertation Binding Instructions

• Binding Instructions for personal and departmental copies

Helpful Links

• Current Research @ KU: Citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by the University of Kansas and published in UMI's Dissertations Abstracts database, and full text of all KU dissertations and theses submitted after 1996. Open to all members of the KU community. Off-campus connections will require proxy log-in.
  • http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/umi/umi.htm
    
    
• ProQuest Theses and Dissertations: Online access to citations and abstracts for over 2 million U.S. and Canadian dissertations and master's theses since 1861, and to the full-text of dissertations and theses submitted since 1997. Available to Lawrence/Edwards students and faculty, and to all users on the Lawrence/Edwards campuses.
  • http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pqdt.shtml
    
    
• Binding personal and departmental copies of theses/dissertations
  • ETD Binding Instructions page
  • KUMC Library
    
    
• Computer Labs and Adobe Acrobat:
  • Lawrence Campus: http://www.computerlabs.ku.edu/
  • KU Medical Center: 1040 Dykes Library (call 7166 to reserve the room)