Office of Thesis & Dissertation Format Review

Process

Be enrolled in at least 1 credit hour during the graduating semester.
Bring approval/signature page to Office of Thesis/Dissertation Format Review (T/D) for format check before getting signatures.
Defense.
Make all content corrections for committee.
Obtain all required signatures on your approval/signature page.
Create an Electronic Thesis/Dissertation (ETD) account at http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/ETD-submit/login.
Post your document as a PDF to your ETD account.
Complete the ETD rights and permissions form (.pdf).
Complete the Author Contact Form (.pdf).
Submit your signed approval/signature page, ETD rights and permissions form, and author contact form to T/D.

---------The above is required to meet the initial submission deadline---------

T/D will review your document and email you a list of corrections.
Make ALL format corrections .
Submit a corrected copy to T/D (by uploading the corrected .pdf to the ETD server and emailing a confirmation to your reviewer).
T/D will review the corrected copy and send a list of any additional corrections.
Repeat steps 12 and 13 until all corrections have been made.
When all corrections have been made, T/D will request final submission. Final submission instructions will be provided at this time.
Submit your document to UMI-ProQuest for publishing (Create an account by logging in through the link that will be provided in the final submission instructions.).
Complete the submission process by following the ProQuest instructions .
[Optional] Complete Survey of Earned Doctorates (Doctoral candidates only): https://sed.norc.org/survey.
Doctoral students will also need to submit graduation information (as listed in the final submission instructions).

---------Steps 11-20 must be done by the Final approval deadline---------

Pay all T/D related fees via Banner account (this will occur when you receive the automated email message of approval from the publisher).
Process is complete.