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Projects in Lieu of Theses

In 2009, a subcommittee of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Committee met with faculty and staff from the advising offices and libraries that support the College of Fine Arts and the College of Design, Construction and Planning.  The subcommittee addressed the need to fill the gap in digitization of terminal projects in programs within these colleges.  Because these students produce projects rather than standard theses, they fell outside the normal processing of the Graduate Editorial Office, the body responsible for current electronic theses and dissertations. In an effort to better serve this segment of the student population on behalf of the libraries, University of Florida Digital Collections began to accept copies of these projects for inclusion in the Institutional Repository in Spring 2009.

If you are a graduate student currently preparing a terminal project for inclusion in University of Florida Digital Collections, technical requirements are listed on the submission help page found here.  Likewise, if you graduated from a program that required a terminal project in lieu of a thesis and you would like your work included in this collection, we are happy to assist.  The same permissions and technical guidelines apply to projects previously published, even if bound and kept in the library’s physical collections.  If you have additional questions, please contact us.