Welcome to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies' Electronic Theses & Dissertation site. These pages are dedicated to help you find all the information you might require in order to format and successfully submit your graduate thesis for examination and publication electronically.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are prepared as text-based PDF files. ETDs can contain non-text elements such as sound, video, and hypertext links. ETDs are available through Scholarship@Western, Western'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 Western Ontario's ETDs.
The most significant benefit is the dramatic increase (50-250%) in citation impact that results from electronic publishing. This leads to increased rewards from universities, in the form of promotion and increased salary, and from granting agencies.
Other benefits include:
- publicity for research - authors of electronic theses become more widely known and their reputations are enhanced
- easy worldwide access to your theses for colleagues and collaborators
- easy worldwide access to theses for job and grant applications
- a raised profile for research institutions
- reduced costs at the point of graduation since there is no need to have multiple copies printed.
For an overview of the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation process at The University of Western Ontario, please refer to any area from our site dedicated to supporting ETD at Western:
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Acetyl Rb1 Ginsenoside from North American Ginseng: Extraction and Application, Raziye Samimi
What is Writing in Undergraduate Anthropology? An Activity Theory Analysis, Boba M. Samuels
In Search of a Cause: An Etiological Analysis of Manubrial Porosity, Jose Sanchez
Nativos migrantes: poesía en la encrucijada, Juan Sanchez
Statistical Analysis and Computer Modelling of Volcanic Eruptions, Laura Anabelle Sanchez
A Statistical Investigation of Nonmetric Vertebral Traits with a Skeletal Population Sample from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, Tiffany A. Sarfo
Essays on the Relationship Between Host Market Corruption and Multinational Enterprise Strategy, Michael A. Sartor
Role of Integrin-linked kinase in epidermal integrity and barrier function, Samar Sayedyahossein
Development of an Emergent Narrative Generation Architecture for Videogames, Nicholas A. Schudlo
Canada and the 2001 United Nations World Conference against Racism, Steven J. Seligman
Islet Regenerative Properties of Ex Vivo Expanded Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells, Ayesh K. Seneviratne
MRI Relaxation Rates: A Quantitative Approach to Track Tumour Cells Expressing MagA, Anindita Sengupta
Young adults reflect on the experience of reading comics in contemporary society: Overcoming the commonplace and recognizing complexity, Lucia Cederia Serantes
The Preferential Loss of Small Geographically Isolated Wetlands on Prairie Landscapes, Jacqueline N. Serran
NGN3 Expression in Definitive Endoderm Progenitors Specifies Pancreatic Endocrine Precursors, Ahmed Shah
Investigating the Multiple Hit hypothesis of Parkinson disease using transgenic LRRK2-R1441G rats, Komal T. Shaikh
Identification of Informativeness in Text using Natural Language Stylometry, Rushdi Shams
Multivariate Spatial Visualization using GeoIcons and Image Charts, Bo Shan
Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy on Graphene Thin Films for Solar Cell and Biosensing Applications, Faranak Sharifi
Multiparametric Imaging and MR Image Texture Analysis in Brain Tumors, Harish A. Sharma
Association of Head and Cervical Injuries in Pediatric Occupants Involved in Motor Vehicle Collisions, Shayan Shekari
Adolescents Experiences with Cyberbullying: A Mixed Methods Analysis, Nasim Shojayi
Inheritance of virulence in the root rot pathogen Phytophthora sojae, Sirjana Devi Shrestha