Retrospective Dissertation Scanning Project

The George A. Smathers Libraries has initiated a project to retrospectively digitize and make available on the Internet any dissertation written by a University of Florida doctoral candidate and accepted by the University of Florida. It is our goal to make the documents fully text searchable and easily harvested by Internet search engines, allowing the full breadth and scope of scholarship produced at the University of Florida to be made available across the world quickly and easily.

Please note that there will be no cost to the author for this service. This project is entirely supported using Library resources.

To see an example of a paper dissertation that has been converted, please see the 1965 dissertation by Oliver Wood, The Federal Reserve System's "Operation Nudge".

Questions? Contact Cathleen Martyniak at (352) 273-2830 or email cathy@uflib.ufl.edu with any questions, comments or concerns you may have regarding this project.

If you agree to digitization and Internet distribution of your Dissertation as part of the University of Florida Digital Collections:

Please print, complete and sign a permission form

Permission Form: Regulations require an original signature. E-mail cannot be accepted. Internet version Microsoft Word version PDF version (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 7+)

And mail it to:

Cathleen Martyniak Theses & Dissertations Project Preservation Department University of Florida Libraries P.O Box 117008 Gainesville, FL 32611-7008

Thank you for your contribution to the UF Digital Collections and enriching the resources available to the University of Florida's student and faculty researchers.

Project Publicity

• Inside UF story from September 25, 2007: text only
• Inside UF story from September 25, 2007: full color PDF

Other related resources:

• University of Florida Digital Collections
• UF Electronic Theses and Dissertations