Electronic submission of a master’s thesis is mandatory. Associated with the electronic submission is a mandatory $60.00 processing fee.
Master’s theses, except those in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and those associated with the Caribbean Studies Specialization within the Humanities Interdisciplinary program, should be written in English.
A booklet entitled Guidelines for Electronic Thesis/Dissertation Preparation and Submission is available on the Graduate School’s Web site at: http://www.grad.buffalo.edu/etd/etdguide.pdf or from the Graduate School’s Office of Student Services, 408 Capen Hall.
Formatting Requirement: The Graduate School will accept any self-consistent format which follows conventions of a recognized discipline, but some general formatting standards are also expected as outlined in the Graduate School’s booklet entitled Guidelines for Electronic Thesis/Dissertation Preparation and Submission. This booklet is available on the Graduate School’s Web site at: http://www.grad.buffalo.edu/etd/etdguide.pdf or from the Graduate School Office of Student Services, 408 Capen Hall.
Copyrighting: It is the student’s choice whether or not to copyright his or her dissertation. Copyrighting protects the student’s rights as an author. These rights include the ability to make copies of the work, to distribute them, to make derivative works, or to perform or display the work. By copyrighting a dissertation, a student can control the rights to it or may authorize others (i.e., a publisher) to exercise them. It is the student’s responsibility to guarantee that the work is original and that he or she has followed accepted standards for documenting the use of references and citations of other works. Students should discuss the option to copyright their work with their major professor before reaching a decision. Once the decision has been made to copyright, the appropriate symbol, the date, and the author’s name must be included on the page immediately following the title page. The copyright will run for the life of the author plus fifty years. The law requires that two copies of the work be submitted to the appropriate federal agency. By requesting copyright through the on-line submission system available on the Graduate School home page at: http://www.grad.buffalo.edu/etd/ under the Proquest/UMI Dissertation Publishing Agreement Form, students can request that this be done on their behalf by Prquest/UMI.