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Submitting Your Thesis/Dissertation for
Preliminary Examination
First Steps
Begin by visiting the Scholarship@ Western page
linked from the School of Graduate and
Postdoctoral Studies – Current Students page.
First Steps
Under Author
Corner, select
Submit Research
Log In
If you have previously used Scholarship@Western
you may log in.
If you are a new user, you are required to create an
account.
Submission Instructions
The submission process will begin by prefacing you in order to
ensure you have a few items of preparation in regards to your
submission.
Submission Metadata
Scholarship@Western will collect various
elements that define your submission for
indexing and publishing purposes.
Submission Complete
Scholarship@Western will confirm that it has received your
submission. It will give you the option to revise your submission
metadata/submission and add additional supplementary content.
Conversion to PDF
Scholarship@Western will
also confirm that it has
received your submission via
e-mail. Any documents not
submitted in .PDF format will
be converted to .PDF. The
e-mail will invite you to check
the converted .PDF file and
report if there are any issues
with this conversion.
Next Steps
The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will leave your
submission open to you for one business day in order for you to ensure
that your submission has been converted properly and you have not
omitted any elements of your submission.
SGPS will then lock your submission and prepare it for distribution to
your examiners. Each examiner is e-mailed an invitation to access your
thesis and complete the preliminary examination online.
Once all preliminary evaluations are completed, the content of those
evaluations will be made available to you via the Scholarship@Western
repository. In addition, you will be instructed via e-mail concerning the
next steps towards completing your thesis examination.
Questions