Electronic Thesis and Dissertations Comes to UWO

The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at UWO has implemented an optional process for students submitting theses and dissertations to do so electronically. The most significant benefit is the dramatic increase (50 - 250%) in citation impact that results from electronic publishing. This leads to increased rewards from universities, in the form of promotion and increased salary, and from granting agencies.

Other benefits include:

• free publicity for your research - authors of electronic theses become more widely known and their reputations are enhanced
• easy worldwide access to your theses for colleagues and collaborators
• easy worldwide access to your theses for job and grant applications
• a raised profile for your research institutions
• reduced costs at the point of graduation since there is no need to have multiple copies printed.

For more information about submitting your thesis or dissertation to UWO's institutional repository, Scholarship@Western, please see: http://grad.uwo.ca/current_students/thesis/overview.htm