Winter 2024 Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The records for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) submitted by the Graduate School for Winter 2024 have been processed and loaded into SURFACE – Syracuse University’s Institutional Repository. These include 47 submissions from 23 different departments:

• African American Studies (1);
• Anthropology (1);
• Biology (2);
• Biomedical and Chemical Engineering (3);
• Chemistry (6);
• Civil and Environmental Engineering (1);
• Counseling and Human Services (2);
• Cultural Foundations of Education (1);
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (6);
• Geography & the Environment (1);
• Higher Education (1);
• History (1);
• Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation (2);
• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (1);
• Philosophy (2);
• Physics (3);
• Political Science (2);
• Psychology(4);
• Reading and Language Arts (1);
• Science Teaching (1);
• Social Sciences (2);
• Sociology (1); and
• Teaching and Curriculum (2).

In Winter 2024:

• Forty (40) dissertations were submitted and their records are available at: https://surface.syr.edu/etd/.
• Thirty-eight (38) dissertations were submitted as Open Access (OA) publications, Twenty-nine (29) of which are currently available for download on SURFACE. Nine (9) additional dissertations will be available after an embargo period.
• Two (2) 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 exceeded 95%.
• Seven (7) graduate theses were submitted and their records are available at https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/.
• Six (6) theses were submitted as OA publications, four (4) of which are currently available for download on SURFACE. Two (2) additional theses will be available after an embargo period.
• One (1) additional thesis was submitted but is only available by subscription through ProQuest, though their records are available in SURFACE.
• The OA rate for theses was over 86%.
• The overall OA rate for all dissertations and theses was approximately 94%.

For anyone desiring additional information at either the departmental or school/college level, please contact the SURFACE team at surface@syr.edu.

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