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Resources for dissertation writers & advisors.

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• Resources for Dissertation Writings   http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/dissertation_writing
• Writing a Literature Review in Social Sciences http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/lit_rev
• Citation Guide: http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/citations
• Alerts for Academic Use http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/alerts
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Databases & Search Tools

Theses & Dissertations 

• FSU Theses & Dissertations https://www.lib.fsu.edu/find/etds.html
• ​ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (FSU)  https://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/dissertation    
• Search non-FSU dissertations and theses
• Limit your search by institution name and/or department, advisor, committee member, etc.  
• Freely available to FSU users through Interlibrary Loan
• Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertation’s Global ETD Search http://www.ndltd.org/resources/find-etds
• WorldCat Theses & Dissertations (through WorldCat First Search) https://lib.fsu.edu/get/wcfs ​

Resources for Literature Review Articles   

• Annual Reviews database  http:// lib.fsu.edu/get/annrev  
• Campbell Collaboration: systematic reviews in education, criminal justice, social policy and social care  http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/
• Center for Reviews and Dissemination http://www.york.ac.uk/crd/

Databases for Social Sciences

• Research method books from Sage, such as green books and blue books 
• Search all 8 databases in social sciences at once, using a single interface. 
• Your Subject Specialist Librarian  https://www.lib.fsu.edu/scholars-commons/subject-specialists  
• Finding appropriate databases or journals for specific discipline research and highly interdisciplinary research
• Verifying incomplete or incorrect citations
• Developing subject-specific search strategies for database searching
• Creating a plan to acquire or have access to research materials (purchase, ILL, UBorrow, etc.)
• Replicating a search strategy explained in a paper
• Learning how to organize citations using citation management programs such as Zotero or EndNote Web
• Learning how to keep up with new publications on a given topic
• Formatting citations in a given publishing style (i.e., secondary citation)  

Writing Exercise or Help

• Purdue OWL https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/28/12/33
• FSU Reading Writing Center http://wr.english.fsu.edu/Reading-Writing-Center     
• Academic PhraseBank (from Univ. of Manchester) http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk    

Help with APA Style

• APA Style Blog https://apastyle.apa.org       

Citation Management Tools

• RefWorks…Free to FSU users. http:// lib.fsu.edu/get/refworks
• Zotero …. Free to all. https://www.zotero.org/
• EndNote Basic…A Companion program to EndNote. Free to all.  http://endnote.com/product-details/basic
• Mendeley…Free to all  https://www.mendeley.com/  

Plagiarism Detection Program

• iThenticate  https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-compliance/research-misconduct/ithenticate Create an account through the FSU Office of Research. You can copy and paste the text to run an originality report of the text. Uploading the file is also available. 
• SafeAssign or TurnItIn. Available through Canvas

Statistical Consulting

Statistical Consulting Center @ Department of Statistics https://stat.fsu.edu/consulting-center Free service for graduate students for thesis work and assistance in upper level courses and to faculty for research     

Campus Resources

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Mental Health & Doctoral Students

“Advice” section of The Chronicle of Higher Education Access to The Chronicle of Higher Education is available through FSU Libraries. _ Go to   https://lib.fsu.edu/get/chronicle   _On the upper left corner of the screen, you will see = SECTIONS link. _ Click onto the link, scroll down, then click onto Advice _ Scroll down then under [More Advice News] click on “The Unmet Mental-Health needs of Foreign Doctoral Students” link. In case you don’t see the link, you can search the site by typing the article title or run a query with "mental health" "doctoral students" . The search box will be on the upper right hand of the page. _ For more related content, check out the bottom of the page, such as      "Why does graduate school kill so many marriages”      "Why we need to talk more about mental health in graduate school"  Nature.com Fairly STEM-centric, but the journal Nature has published a number of articles on mental health and doctoral students. To read the article, please go to Google.com, then, copy-paste the following onto the search box:      site:nature.com "graduate students" "mental health" Council of Graduate School Run this pre-formulated query at Google:

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Formatting templates.

Manuscript Clearance provides templates for both Word and LaTeX into which students can type their text directly and that are formatted according to FSU requirements. The main elements in the three templates are the same, but the layout of the Table of Contents is different. You can select a Table of Contents that lists only the main section headings (which is all The Graduate School requires) or one that also lists subheadings, either numbered or unnumbered. 

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Dissertation and Admission to Candidacy

Dissertation.

The dissertation element of the degree has four requirements:

• Approved prospectus defense
• Completed 24 dissertation hours
• Completed and submitted dissertation
• Successful dissertation defense

Admission to Candidacy

Following completion of the comprehensive exams, an Admission to Candidacy form is sent to the Registrar’s Office and the student becomes a candidate for the doctoral degree. At this stage, the student is eligible to register for dissertation credit hours (at least 24 dissertation credit hours are required). The University requires a minimum period of six months between admission to candidacy and granting of the degree. However, it is extremely rare for a student to complete a dissertation within such a short time frame. Most students take a year or longer to complete a dissertation.

Prospectus Defense

After being admitted to candidacy, students focus primarily on their dissertation. The major professor and supervisory committee assume major roles in helping students define an acceptable project and follow through on its completion. The College requires that doctoral candidates prepare a dissertation prospectus that will enable the committee to determine if the project is acceptable. The prospectus defense is a special meeting of the doctoral student and doctoral committee members. During this session, the group strives to reach consensus regarding the proposal and study methodology. If the prospectus is approved, the student may move ahead with the study as described, subject to any changes the committee may request. Once the student has satisfactorily defended the prospectus, the dissertation director, committee members, and dean will sign the Prospectus Defense Form, which will be put in the student’s file. Students may not proceed with dissertation research until the prospectus has been approved by the committee. The student’s committee members determine the exact parameters of the prospectus. Generally, the prospectus includes a problem statement and introduction, a literature review, and the research methods to be used. Dissertation and Dissertation Defense Doctoral students are required to complete at least 24 dissertation credits while working on a dissertation. Students are expected to register for several credits during each semester in which they are completing work associated with the dissertation. Until the dissertation is completed, students must register for at least 2 dissertation credits each semester, even after they have completed the University minimum of 24 credits. Generally, the candidate works most closely with his/her dissertation advisor/ major professor, although regular contact is expected with other committee members as well. Once the dissertation is judged acceptable by the major professor, the student schedules a formal dissertation defense date. The University requires that the student provide all participating faculty members with a copy of the dissertation at least four weeks before the scheduled defense date. The student will need to fill out the appropriate paperwork with the Graduate School for their defense announcement at least two weeks prior to the dissertation defense. The defense is open to anyone in the University, and students should expect that some strangers might be present. Doctoral theses must be presented in an acceptable form before they will receive clearance from the University. The submission process and formatting requirements for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are outlined in the Guidelines and Requirements for Theses, Treatises, and Dissertations . All students must submit their thesis, treatise, or dissertation electronically For more information on ETDs at FSU, visit the FSU Library’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation website . University deadlines for submission of the final document are established for each academic semester and must be met or graduation will be delayed.

Institutional Review Board (IRB) Approval

Students are reminded to seek IRB approval prior to commencing any research involving human subjects. The student’s name must appear on the approval form as a PI or co-PI for the period of time when the student’s research was conducted. Failure to obtain the required approvals may result in the dissertation being permanently embargoes and unpublishable in any form.

Electronic Submission of the Dissertation

The dissertation must be submitted electronically. All dissertations will be published by microfilm under the plan provided by University Microfilms International (UMI), and the abstracts will be published and distributed in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI). A charge is paid by the candidate at the Office of Student Financial Services for payment to UMI. Microfilming does not preclude later publication. If a dissertation writer so desires, copyright may be obtained through UMI by indicating choice of copyright on the first page of the agreement form, signing the copyright line on the back of the agreement form, and paying a fee to the Office of Student Financial Services.

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Funding databases.

The following are databases of funding opportunities for graduate students to explore fellowships and awards that may be a good "fit" to pursue for funding to support their graduate study. You can create an Pivot account free of charge with your FSU email address. The other databases are public and free to use.

FSU awards scholarships each academic year through the fundraising efforts of the FSU Foundation and the generosity of private donors. Scholarship award amounts and donor-stipulated criteria vary.

Database with 27,000+ funding opportunities that allows you to set up searches and alerts. FSU's Office of Research pays for FSU students, faculty, and staff to have access to Pivot.

Fellowship Finder | University of Illinois

The Illinois Database of Grants and Fellowships for Graduate Students. Allows you to tailor your search based on field, citizenship, stage of study, award type, and eligibility.

GRAPES | UCLA

Search among 625 scholarships, grants, fellowships, and postdoctoral awards by amount, academic level, general discipline, award type, demographics, and citizenship.

GradFund | Rutgers

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Research Funding | Duke

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International Scholarships

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EBSCO Open Dissertations

Search millions of electronic theses and dissertations (etds).

With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. Our goal is to help make their students’ theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible.

This approach extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

Get involved in the EBSCO Open Dissertations project and make your electronic theses and dissertations freely available to researchers everywhere. Please contact Margaret Richter for more information.