In order to ensure that all master´s theses and doctoral dissertations produced at Georgia State University are captured, preserved, and appropriately made available, the University requires all students who produce a master´s thesis or doctoral dissertation in fulfillment of his/her degree to upload the final version of these documents to ScholarWorks@Georgia State University as a condition of the award of the degree. Programs requiring extra time to submit master´s theses or doctoral dissertations will have no more than five years to meet the submission requirement.
Have you included any copyrighted material in your thesis or dissertation?
If yes, have you obtained permission to include that copyrighted material in your thesis or dissertation?
If you included copyrighted material and have not obtained permission, you must obtain these permissions before continuing with the submission process. Contact the Office of Legal Affairs if you have any questions.
Does your thesis or dissertation disclose or describe any inventions or discoveries that could potentially have commercial application and warrant patenting? (If you and/or your faculty advisor(s) have any questions about making this determination, please contact the Office of Technology Commercialization & Industry Relations).
If yes, the technology transfer and patenting process necessitate further conversation before you can continue with the ETD submission process to determine the appropriate embargo on access to your dissertation to protect patent eligibility.
Are you requesting an access restriction for your thesis or dissertation? Georgia State colleges have different policies regarding embargos and may require permission for an embargo, so be sure to check with your college before making this decision.
No embargo required
By choosing no embargo, you agree to publish your thesis or dissertation in ScholarWorks@GSU immediately after graduation. This option will provide the broadest possible access to your work. The full text of your thesis or dissertation and any supplemental files will be accessible online for unlimited viewing. Your thesis or dissertation will be indexed and discoverable via major search engines.
Embargo
By choosing an embargo, you are requesting that there be no access to the full text of your Dissertation for a specified period. Your dissertation will be listed and indexed in the Georgia State University Library Catalog and in ScholarWorks@GSU, but the full text of your Dissertation and any supplementary files will not be accessible until the expiration of the embargo. The title, author, keywords, and abstract will be displayed on the web in the record for your Dissertation, even if you have restricted access to the full-text copy. If you are embargoing due to patentability concerns, ensure your abstract is written not to be considered prior art. If you do not want an abstract displayed, enter “No abstract to protect patentability” in the abstract field when you upload your thesis or dissertation.
Closed
By choosing a Closed Thesis or Closed Dissertation, you limit online access to the full text of your submission to the Georgia State University campus (IP address). No one outside of GSU will be able to see your thesis or dissertation. This is the equivalent of available access when theses and dissertations were only on a library shelf. Your thesis or dissertation will be shared as the result of an Interlibrary Loan request.
Your College Administrator will provide you with the link for uploading.
When you are ready to upload, make sure you have the following information:
For more information about Copyright and your ETD, please see:
