Winter 2025 Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The records for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) submitted by the Graduate School for Winter 2025 have been processed and loaded into SURFACE – Syracuse University’s Institutional Repository. These include forty-four (44) submissions from twenty-two (22) different departments, including:
Anthropology (1); Arts Therapy (1); Biology (2); Biomedical and Chemical Engineering (3); Chemistry (3); Civil and Environmental Engineering (1); Communication Sciences and Disorders (1); Cultural Foundations of Education (2); Economics (1); Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (5); Geography and the Environment (1); Information Management (2); Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (1); Mass Communications (1); Mathematics (3); Mechanical Aerospace and Engineering (1); Physics (6); Psychology (4); Public Administration (1); Public Relations (1); Social Science (1); Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition (2).
In Winter 2025:
- Thirty-five (35) dissertations were submitted and their records are available at: https://surface.syr.edu/etd/.
- Thirty-five (35) dissertations were submitted as Open Access (OA) publications, twenty-four (24) of which are currently available for download on SURFACE. Eleven (11) additional dissertations will be available after an embargo period.
- The OA rate for dissertations was 100%.
- Nine (9) graduate theses were submitted and their records are available at https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/.
- Nine (9) theses were submitted as OA publications, all of which are currently available for download on SURFACE.
- The OA rate for theses was 100%.
- The overall OA rate for all dissertations and theses was 100%.
Notably, this marks the first time that both dissertations and theses achieved a 100% opt‑in rate for Open Access publishing for a graduation period. The Winter 2025 ETDs also close out a calendar year with a record‑high Open Access participation rate of 95%!
For anyone desiring additional information at either the departmental or school/college level, please contact the SURFACE team at surface@syr.edu.