Producing Your Doctoral & Master's Thesis
Welcome to the School of Graduate Studies’ Electronic Theses & Dissertation Preparation & Submission Site. The School of Graduate Studies has designed this site to offer information to Masters and Doctoral students, Administrative Staff, and Faculty regarding the submission of graduate theses. Here you will find all the information you need to format and submit your thesis electronically.
The School of Graduate Studies will ONLY accept the submission of theses in electronic format for both Masters and Doctoral students. Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are theses or dissertations prepared as text-based PDF files. ETDs can contain non-text elements such as sound, video, and hypertext links. ETDs are available through T-Space, the University's digital library repository, and also released to the world-wide web with priority in many search engines, enabling scholars worldwide to locate, search, and download the University of Toronto's ETDs.
Electronic theses have many advantages. As well as the capacity to include various non-text modalities, they offer vastly improved accessibility and ease of use, which increases your readership and benefits those interested in your work. Electronic publication has proven to vastly increase citation rates. According to Library & Archives Canada, authors receive 50-250% more citations when they make their articles publicly available!