What is being changed in the requirement?
Since the early 1990s, students have submitted a printout of electronic text files to the Office of Graduate Studies; the printout was treated as the dissertation. The new requirement states that you must publish an electronic version of the same dissertation for archival purposes. The requirement removes the necessity of creating a printout of the electronic files that constitute the dissertation; instead, you will publish the electronic files only, once they have been converted to an acceptable format. For most text-based dissertations, this format will be PDF, created in Adobe Acrobat (see http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/etd/formats.html for a list of acceptable formats). Master’s students choosing the electronic option for their thesis or dissertation may turn in an electronic version instead of a paper version to the Office of Graduate Studies.
