Ensure you have reviewed the Deposit instructions prior to uploading.
Select below the appropriate option for your document type: 1 - for Major paper or internships paper; 2 - for Thesis or Dissertation:
1- Major Paper or Internship Paper:
- Your major paper / internship paper must be in PDF format.
- Ensure that the PDF is the final document that has been approved by your Master's committee and by the Graduate Studies office for format.
Please note: the University library is currently transitioning to a new Major Paper repository and at this time the major paper portal is not accepting new uploads. Until the Major Paper submission portal is operational, to deposit your major paper please email your major paper as a PDF file attachment to thesis@uwindsor.ca along with your signed post-defence committee approval form to complete both Deposit steps #1 and #2.
Contact the graduate studies office at thesis@uwindsor.ca if you have questions.
2 -Thesis or Dissertation
- Your thesis must be in PDF format.
- Ensure that the PDF is the final thesis document that has been approved by your Master's/Doctoral committee and by the Graduate Studies office for format compliance.
- One of the online submission steps will offer you to purchase bound copies of your printed thesis from ProQuest. This is an optional service as hard copies are not required for the thesis deposit. If you do not wish to order bound copies from Proquest for personal use, simply select "Decline - do not order" at the bottom of the form. For all binding options of thesis copies for personal use that may be available to students please refer to the 'Binding options' section on the deposit instructions webpage.
1. Go to www.etdadmin.com/uwindsor and select "Submit my thesis". Select "Create an account" to create a username and password, log in, and follow the instructions to submit your thesis pdf. Your work can be saved at any point and if you are unable to finish your submission at once you can return at a later time to complete your submission.
Note: one of the submission steps will offer to purchase bound hard copies of your thesis from UMI/ProQuest. This is an optional service as no printed/hard copies are required by the University for the thesis deposit. If you do not wish to order bound copies from Proquest for personal use, simply select "Decline - do not order" at the bottom of the form.
2. After you populate all required information and upload your final thesis document, select "Submit" at the end. You will receive an automatically generated email confirming that your submission was successful. If you do not receive a confirmation email check to make sure you have clicked on "Submit" at the end of the submission process.
Your uploaded PDF will be queued for review and approval by Graduate Studies, and within the next few days you will receive a second follow-up email from the Graduate Studies Thesis Administrator (thesis@uwindsor.ca), which will either confirm that your submission was approved or otherwise provide instructions about any adjustments that may be required. Do not wait for the follow-up approval email from the Thesis Administrator as during peak times it may take 3-5 business days for your uploaded submission to be reviewed by Graduate Studies - after uploading, proceed promptly to email your required forms to graduate studies as outlined under "Deposit Step #2 of 2 - email required forms".
If any required edits to the uploaded thesis are subsequently determined by Graduate Studies they will be outlined in the follow-up email and you will be responsible for completing these adjustments and re-uploading your updated PDF file.
When will your online submission be publicly available on the web:
After your online submission has been accepted by graduate studies it will be delivered to ProQuest for publishing and following a processing period (approx. 6-8 weeks), a copy of your online submission will be posted on the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Portal as well as in Scholarship@UWindsor, the University of Windsor collection of over 4,000 digitized theses and dissertations.
If your thesis needs to be withheld from the public domain for a period of time you must still upload it online as well as submit a "Request for withholding" form to the Graduate Studies office - review the "Request for withholding / embargo " guidelines on the Deposit webpage.
Contact the graduate studies thesis office if you have questions.
Upon completing the online submission, proceed to the last step to complete your deposit - refer to the instructions under Deposit step #2 of 2 for details.
Frequently Asked Questions
After your online submission has been accepted by graduate studies it will be delivered to ProQuest for publishing and following a processing period (approx. 6-8 weeks), a copy of your online submission will be posted on the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Portal as well as in Scholarship@UWindsor, the University of Windsor collection of over 4,000 digitized theses and dissertations.
If a withholding request was submitted at the time of depositing, for the during the embargo period the full-text of your major paper, thesis or dissertation will not be publicly available, however, a brief record will be posted on the web including the abstract. Instructions about submitting a withholding request are outlined under 'additional information' on the deposit steps webpage.
With the endorsement of your research Supervisor, you may request to have the full-text of your uploaded thesis withheld from the public domain for an initial period of up to 1 year. For this purpose, consult with your research Supervisor first and review the Request for withholding/embargo instructions on the post-defence Deposit steps webpage, under section titled "Additional Information".
Students are advised to contact publishers and inquire about their electronic publishing policies. Many journal publishers will accept for publication articles taken from e-theses that had been previously made available through the web. However, some publishers will not accept for publication any material that has already been published in an electronic form so students should always contact directly publishers and inquire about their policies.
There is no charge for the online submission.
Adobe Reader, which is freely available from many internet sites, can only be used to view PDF files but not to create or edit PDF files.
If your source document is in MS Word format and if you require support with MS Word/Office 365, you may contact ITS at: www.uwindsor.ca/itservices/support
If you are on campus, you can use any computer that is available for public use in the Leddy Library. A freeware "PDF writer" is installed on all workstations in the library that will allow the conversion of your thesis document into PDF format. Just open up the document and select "Print to PDF Writer". You will then be prompted for a location and file name and a PDF version of your thesis document will be created in that location.
For assistance, ask the IT Consultants on duty at the Leddy Reference desk (they can be identified by their blue IT Consultant vests).
Open Access refers to free and unrestricted availability of scientific or scholarly literature on the Internet. Open access provides many advantages over the traditional publication model - review the Leddy library information on open access and scholarly publishing.
