Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) Formatting & Copyright workshop

This is the recording of the December 3, 2015 Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Formatting & Copyright workshop. See the links used in the presentation, as well as information updated since the presentation, in the Additional Resources file in this record. Note: The Copyright section of the ETD Release Form referred to in the latter part of the presentation has since changed to include a third choice: "Copyrighted material used with owner’s permission (provide documentation of permissions)."This workshop is for graduate students at any stage of the thesis or dissertation process. If you're just starting out, you can build your own template for future use. If you’re nearing the end, come join us for some quick tips that will save you some time and trouble as you move forward. Here are the ETD Formatting topics covered: 1. General information about the thesis/dissertation process, 2. Content order, 3. Title and acceptance pages, 4. Page numbering, 5. Building an automatic table of contents using heading styles, 6. Generating a table of contents, 7. Captioning figures, equations, tables and more, 8. Embedding fonts, and 9. Converting to PDF. The workshop also covers the basics of copyright for grad students as scholars and teachers, including copyright considerations for theses and dissertations, and resources in the KU Libraries that can help. Here are the Copyright topics covered: 1. General information about copyrights in the U.S., 2. Copyrights and scholarly publications, including theses and dissertations, 3. Fair Use and scholarly work, 4. The Copyright Decision Tree – A tool developed at KU to help users decide whether they are using copyrighted materials in compliance with U.S. copyright law and/or fair use, 5. Copyright services provided by the Libraries’ Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright