Spring 2024 Electronic Theses and Dissertations on SURFACE
The records for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) submitted by the Graduate School for the Spring 2024 May Graduates have been processed and loaded into SURFACE, Syracuse University’s Institutional Repository. These include 123 submissions from 45 different departments, including:
African American Studies (2); Anthropology (1); Art Photography (5); Arts Therapy (2); Biology (3); Biomedical and Chemical Engineering (7); Civil and Environmental Engineering (2); Communication and Rhetorical Studies (6); Counseling & Human Services (3); Cultural Foundations of Education (1); Department of Art (2); Design (2); Earth & Environmental Sciences (2); Economics (2); Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (5); English (3); Food Studies (2); Geography & the Environment (3); Higher Education (2); History (1); Human Development and Family Science (3); Illustration (10); Information Management (7); Juridical Science (1); Languages, Literature, and Linguistics (2); Marriage and Family Therapy (1); Mass Communications (1); Mathematics (2); Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2); Media Studies (2) Philosophy (1); Physics (3); Political Science (1); Psychology (6); Public Administration (1); Science Teaching (1); Social Science (2); Sociology (2); Special Education (1); Studio Arts (12); Teaching and Curriculum (2); Teaching and Leadership (1); The School of Information Studies (1); Transmedia (1); and Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition (1).
Spring 2024 marked the first graduate in the Juridical Science Program out of the College of Law. The SJD program was created in April 2020.
In the Spring 2024 May Graduate ETDs:
- Fifty-seven (57) dissertations were submitted and their records are available on SURFACE.
- Fifty-four (54) dissertations were submitted as Open Access (OA) publications, thirty-eight (38) of which are currently available for download on SURFACE. Sixteen (16) additional dissertations will be available after an embargo period.
- Three (3) additional dissertations were submitted but are only available by subscription through ProQuest, though their records are available in SURFACE.
- The OA rate for dissertations this spring was roughly 95%.
- Sixty-six (66) graduate theses were submitted and their records are available at SURFACE.
- Sixty-one (61) theses were submitted as OA publications, fifty-eight (58) of which are currently available for download on SURFACE. Three (3) additional theses will be available after an embargo period.
- Five (5) additional theses were submitted but are only available by subscription through ProQuest, though their records are available in SURFACE.
- The OA rate for theses was 92%.
- The overall OA rate for all dissertations and theses was approximately 93%.
For anyone desiring additional information at either the departmental or school/college level, please contact the SURFACE team at surface@syr.edu.