Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Getting Graduate School permission to submit an ETD

In order to be considered complete, your ETD must:

• Have all of its title page information (author, title, keywords, etc.) entered.
• Have at least one advisor.
• Have at least one file.
• Not have any notices from the graduate school that need to be dealt with.

At this time you will need to complete the WFU ETD RElease form with your advisor and turn it in to the Graduate School Office on your campus. You can then go ahead converting your Word file to a PDF file and submit it to the WFU ETD database.

The Graduate School Review Process

Once you have submitted your thesis/dissertation to the database, you need to inform the Graduate School Office on your campus of this fact. At this time, your ETD will be reviewed by the Graduate School.

If anything about your ETD needs to be changed before it can be approved, the Graduate School will send you a notice, which is a brief message describing the steps you need to take to complete your ETD. Notices are generally delivered as email messages to whatever author email address you entered for your ETD. Notices may also be sent to your committee chair if there are problems reaching you. Once you receive a message indicating that you have a notice, you should login again and make the requested changes. Once you have made the requested changes, it is very important that you send a response to the Graduate School, so that they will know that your ETD has been updated and is ready to be reviewed again.

Changes to the ETD can be made online until the ETD has been approved. Once the ETD has been approved, any additonal changes require the permission of the Graduate School.