Once the defense is complete and any required revisions to the dissertation are made and approved by the advisor and/or committee, the student is required to submit a copy of the final dissertation and other materials to the GSSP Office and the One Stop office, as appropriate. Students should talk with advisor and DGS regarding posting their dissertations on the UMN Digital Conservancy if there might be copyright issues with publications. There is a form that students and advisor(s) can sign to embargo the dissertation and delay posting to the public Digital Conservancy, if necessary. All students interested in publishing parts or all of their dissertation research should talk to advisors, the DGS and potential journal editors prior to publishing in a journal and/or posting to the Digital Conservancy.
Students must follow to the Thesis/Dissertation Submission and Formatting guidelines. Provided students have applied to graduate by the first workday of the month in which the final materials were submitted, the degree will be posted at the end of that month.
UMN Libraries has provided this workshop for Formatting your Dissertation in Word. Included are several tutorials as well as sample documents.