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 necessitates 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.

For more information about embargoes, please refer to the tab below.

When you are ready to upload, make sure you have the following information:

• Title
• Your ORCID (not required, but highly recommended)
• Embargo decision (if you plan to embargo your dissertation, make sure you have departmental approval)
• Advisor names
• Your abstract and any keywords to describe your research
• A PDF copy of your document

To submit, go to https://scholarworks.gsu.edu.

Click on Login (top right) and log in with Shibboleth using your CampusID and Password.

Click on the User Icon where the Login link was and select MyDspace.

Click Start Submission, then Start Submission from Scratch.

Submission Steps

1. Find your collection by typing to find your department, then choose the correct collection (e.g., Sociology Dissertations, Public Health Theses, Nursing Doctoral Projects). NOTE: If you are in Public Health, type Health instead of Public.
2. Upload your document by dragging it to the box or clicking 'Browse' and then 'Import'.
3. Item type – select the type of item you are submitting (e.g., dissertation, thesis).
4. Author – enter your family name, followed by your given name. As you enter your name, the system will check to see if you have an ORCiD. If you do, click the link, and a pop-up box will display your ID number. Copy that for the next field.
5. ORCID Identifier – enter your ORCID.
6. Enter the title of your work. Please capitalize each word (Title Case) – don’t enter it in all caps.
7. Enter your Advisor(s). Use the +Add More to enter each advisor on a separate line.
8. Select your degree from the dropdown list.
9. If you want to embargo your work, enter the date the work would be made available here. This does not finish the embargo process. It informs readers that your work is embargoed. You must complete Step 13 to embargo your work.
10. Enter the language of your work.
11. Enter any Keywords that describe your work.
12. Enter your Abstract.
13. The next field is the File edit field. Click on the middle icon for Edit.
    1. You can change the name of the file if you want to make it clearer – it will show on your work’s landing page.
    2. You don’t need to add anything to the description box.

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       If you are embargoing your work
       1. Click on the dropdown box under Access Condition Type and select Embargo.
       2. In the “Grant Access from” box, enter the date when your work will become available.
       3. Click Save. This step embargoes your work.

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       If you are closing your work to campus users only
       1. Click on the dropdown box under "Access Condition type" and select "Administrator".
       2. Click Save.
       3. IMPORTANT – you must email scholarworks@gsu.edu with notification that you submitted a closed ETD to complete this step.

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       If you want an embargo and to close your ETD to campus users only, follow the embargo instructions, AND email scholarworks@gsu.edu with notification that you submitted a closed ETD with an embargo.

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    Read the License Agreement and click the box to confirm.
15. Click the green Deposit button on the bottom right.

If you need to make an edit to your work after you submit it, DO NOT SUBMIT ANOTHER COPY. Email the contact for your college listed on this page and ask them to send your submission back to you.