This page is a hub of resources for your thesis or dissertation. From research and writing to submitting to the Toulouse Graduate School, we are here to support you! View the links below to learn more about the process.
Students are encouraged to save the links to the right for faster reference. Vireo, or the ETD system, is used to file your document with TGS. The ETD Manual page provides instruction on the University’s expectations and requirements for document formatting. For further questions, use the Contact link to connect with the Graduate Reader.
The University of North Texas (UNT), as a member of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), endorses the fundamental tenet on openness and access of thesis and dissertation research as stated in the CGS policy manual The Doctor of Philosophy Degree: A Policy Statement (CGS, 2005).
In compliance with CGS, it is the policy at UNT that “an essential aspect of dissertation [and thesis] research and scholarship is the free and full dissemination of research results. Restrictions, either in the conduct of dissertation [and thesis] research or in the sharing of its results, are antithetical to that spirit.”
As part of UNT’s commitment to openness, all UNT ETDs are placed in the UNT ETD repository and made available via the online UNT Libraries catalog for reading and/or downloading by all users, including being crawled and indexed by online search engines (e.g., Google). ETDs are available in perpetuity; in addition, there are no restrictions regarding who can download the file or how many times it can be downloaded.
If you have created intellectual property in the course of your research or are subject to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), please contact UNT’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) for guidance.
Your first stop when formatting your dissertation or thesis should be our Thesis & Dissertation Manual.
A newly organized version of the manual is also now available as the ETD Manual. It is important to note that no new requirements have been implemented in this update. The original manual is still available for use through the summer months. For visual examples of the different format options, please use the tabs below.
This sample follows the traditional five-chapter format of a dissertation.
For students including published or submitted journal articles as individual chapters have the option to use the Expanded Journal Format.
Creative works encompasses the likes of short story collections, musical scores, poetry collections, novels, and other works in which the creative component comprises the majority of the project.
Documents that are not divided into chapters should use this sample as a visual guide.
Students using LaTeX to prepare their document can utilize the style files contained within this ZIP file.
Additionally, we have many resources in our Writing section that can provide you with insight on copyright issues, plagiarism, style guides and the like.
For further questions or assistance, please contact the Graduate Reader: graduate.reader@unt.edu
IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER:
Vireo was designed to be very user friendly, and students should not have much trouble figuring out what to do in order to successfully submit.