ETD Essentials

How to submit your thesis

• Creating an Account
• Logging In
• ETD Status
• File Formats
• File Uploads
• Entering Title
• Entering Abstract
• Entering Keywords
• "Mixed" Availability
• Special Characters/HTML Entities
• Cookies
• The ETD Review Process Please note: No changes can be made to your thesis once the ETD coordinator has approved it and sent it onto the Grad Office.
• Starting Over

See examples of electronic theses

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Important copyright considerations

• Using a journal article as a chapter in your thesis
• Writing a book related to your thesis
• Important information about signing agreements with publishers
• Author rights

Electronic access to your thesis

• Access options through Caltech
• Access options through UMI

Caltech Ph.D. thesis regulations

• Regulations for format and presentation of graduate thesis

Forms

Return all to Graduate Office.

• Ph.D. Candidacy Form
• Petition for Examination (includes the Electronic Thesis Approval Form)
• Proofreader Agreement
• ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing Agreement
  1. Print out page 4 and select "Traditional Publishing" with "No restrictions." (Caltech provides Open Access free of charge, and so it is not necessary to select the OA options).
  2. Print and complete page 5. The subject category codes can be found on page 8.
  3. Print and complete page 6, "Copyright Registration Form - Optional" if you would like UMI to file an application to register your copyright on your behalf. There is a $65 charge for this service, payable with a postal money order made out to "Proquest Information and Learning". Should you choose not to use this service, you must still turn the page into the Grad Office, with "declined" written on it.

Fees

• There is no fee to submit your thesis to UMI. If you want UMI to register your copyright, then there is a $65 fee, but this is an optional service.

Binding options

• Library/KaterKraft Bookbinders:
  Student drops off paper copy of thesis with the bindery specialist in Millikan Library, 2nd floor (x6432). Library includes it with other bindery orders to KaterKraft on the third Tuesday of the month. Approximately one month turnaround. Library-quality binding. $12.25 /volume; extra fee for acid-free supplementary material pockets (maps, cds, etc.) Bindery works with whatever material student provides. Pay library directly. Bound volume shipped back to library; student arranges pick-up.
• Caltech Graphic Resources:
  Three types of book binding offered: GBC(comb), velo, and fastbind. Call for current prices (x6701). Quick turn-around (2-3 days); pick-up on campus.
• UMI:
  Will print out and bind copy of thesis after it is submitted to the company. Turnaround time unknown. Cost depends on bound size and format, $35-$53. Bound volume can be shipped to student’s address. For more information, see page 7 of the UMI Dissertation Publishing Agreement.

Fun stuff

• Linus Pauling's thesis
• Caltech Theses Statistics

Questions?

• Email etd AT library.caltech.edu