Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Instructional Services at the KU Libraries offers support to students working on and submitting their dissertations and theses in several ways:

Workshops

Click the linked workshop titles for detailed workshop descriptions, upcoming session times and locations, and PDF versions of handouts for these workshops.

• Word: Everyday Tasks and Word: Document Enhancement Features - Learn important time-saving features and tools of Word.
• Word: Long Documents - Learn how to generate a table of contents automatically, build an index, set up special page numbering in your document (using two or more different page numbering styles in the same document), use captions and build a list of figures, and other features of interest to anyone creating longer documents (such as theses, dissertations, grant proposals, book manuscripts, and so on).
• PDF: Power Hour - Everything you need to know to make a basic PDF, including what tools are available at KU for you to use.

Help on the Web

The KU Libraries PDF technology page (www.lib.ku.edu/technology/PDF) provides information on creating PDFs from theses, dissertations, and a variety of other types of documents.

Consultation

Technology questions? We can help. Call (785) 864-0410 or email training@ku.edu to get answers on PDF creation, Word file troubleshooting, and related issues.

Policy questions? (Due dates, formatting guidelines questions, etc.) Visit the KU Graduate School's ETD page (www.graduate.ku.edu/~etd), email etd@ku.edu, or call (785) 864-8040.