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EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. 

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EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. You can join the movement and add your theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to your institutional repository. 

EBSCO Open Dissertations 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.

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Your ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to your IR.

EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .

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Of particular use to alumni and the general public: The following three open access dissertation and theses databases are available. Some titles in these databases are citation only, while others provide free access with links to the full text of the dissertation or thesis cited.

• EBSCO's Open Dissertations Database Coverage varies by the source database. Provides open access to over 800,000 dissertations from 26 U.S. universities plus the UK. Created from a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs, it uses the standard EBSCO search interface. Consists primarily of three resources--mostly full text titles from OhioLink's open ETD database (mainly 1999 to date); EThOS: e-theses online service of UK dissertations from the British Library (1800 to date); and citations digitized from UMI's Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. (EBSCO is working on extending this coverage from 1955 to date.)
• PQDT Open A subset of ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. Coverage: mainly 2006 to date. Some earlier titles back to 1990. PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The text, if available, is in PDF format.
• EThOS: E-Theses Online Service (British Library) Coverage: 1800 to date. Also searchable as part of EBSCO's Open Dissertations database . More than 480,000 titles included with links to the full text for over 100,000 dissertations. About EThOS .

Summon and Discipline-Specific Databases Covering Dissertations

Many periodical databases in academic disciplines index dissertations in addition to articles and books: MLA Bibliography , PsycINFO , and EconLit are three well-known examples. In general, one would not expect to find dissertations not already cited in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global in these databases. However, it can be a way to locate dissertations written in a particular discipline rather than searching using specific subject terms in PQD&TG.

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Indexes over 4 million graduate-level electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) freely available from over 1,100 institutions worldwide . Search for keywords from titles, author names, abstracts, subjects, university/publisher and more. Use More search options to limit searches to a particular field, language, and date range. The search results will include links to full-text theses/dissertations residing on the original hosting site, usually the institutional repository of the school that granted the degree.

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Theses and dissertations produced by students as part of the completion of their degree requirements often represent unique and interesting scholarship. Universities are increasingly making this work available online, and UC is no exception. Find information related to open access theses and dissertations below.

UC has an open access policy for theses and dissertations, but procedures and specifics vary by campus

Several UC campuses have established policies requiring open access to the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) written by their graduate students. As of March 25, 2020, there is now a systemwide Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations , indicating that UC “requires theses or dissertations prepared at the University to be (1) deposited into an open access repository, and (2) freely and openly available to the public, subject to a requested delay of access (’embargo’) obtained by the student.”

In accordance with these policies, campuses must ensure that student ETDs are available open access via eScholarship (UC’s open access repository and publishing platform), at no cost to students. By contrast, ProQuest, the world’s largest commercial publisher of ETDs, charges a $95 fee to make an ETD open access. Institutions worldwide have moved toward open access ETD publication because it dramatically increases the visibility and reach of their graduate research.

Policies and procedures for ETD filing, including how to delay public release of an ETD and how long such a delay can last, vary by campus. Learn more about the requirements and procedures for ETDs at each UC campus:

• UC Berkeley: Dissertation Filing Guidelines (for Doctoral Students) and Thesis Filing Guidelines (for Master’s Students)
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• UC Santa Barbara:  Filing Your Thesis, Dissertation, or DMA Supporting Document
• UC Santa Cruz: Dissertation and Thesis Guidelines (PDF) from the Graduate Division’s Accessing Forms Online page

Open access can be delayed in certain circumstances

Some campuses allow students to elect an embargo period before the public release of their thesis/dissertation; others require approval from graduate advisors or administrators. Visit your local graduate division’s website (linked above) for more information.

Common copyright concerns of students writing theses and dissertations

Students writing theses/dissertations most commonly have questions about their own copyright ownership or the use of other people’s copyrighted materials in their own work.

You automatically own the copyright in your thesis/dissertation  as soon as you create it, regardless of whether you register it or include a copyright page or copyright notice (see this FAQ from the U.S. Copyright Office for more information). Most students choose not to register their copyrights, though some choose to do so because they value having their copyright ownership officially and publicly recorded. Getting a copyright registered is required before you can sue someone for infringement.

If you decide to register your copyright, you can do so

• directly, through the Copyright Office website , for $35
• by having ProQuest/UMI contact the Copyright Office on your behalf, for $65.

It is common to incorporate 1) writing you have done for journal articles as part of your dissertation, and 2) parts of your dissertation into articles or books . See, for example, these articles from Wiley and Taylor & Francis giving authors tips on how to successfully turn dissertations into articles, or these pages at Sage , Springer , and Elsevier listing reuse in a thesis or dissertation as a common right of authors. Because this is a well-known practice, and often explicitly allowed in publishers’ contracts with authors, it rarely raises copyright concerns. eScholarship , which hosts over 55,000 UC ETDs, has never received a takedown notice from a publisher based on a complaint that the author’s ETD was too similar to the author’s published work.

Incorporating the works of others in your thesis/dissertation – such as quotations or illustrative images – is often allowed by copyright law. This is the case when the original work isn’t protected by copyright, or if the way you’re using the work would be considered fair use. In some circumstances, however, you will need permission from the copyright holder.  For more information, please consult the Berkeley Library’s guide to Copyright and Publishing Your Dissertation .

How to find UC Dissertations and Theses online

All ten UC campuses make their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) openly accessible to readers around the world. You can view over 55,000 UC ETDs in eScholarship , UC’s open access repository. View ETDs from each campus:

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• American Doctoral Dissertations This free research database indexes thousands of theses and dissertations accepted by American universities from 1902 to the present and provides links to full text, when available.
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal A partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.

• OhioLINK ETD Center A free, online database of Ohio’s masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted.
• OATD: Open Access Theses and Dissertations Open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
• PQDT Open (ProQuest) PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
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How to find dissertations, open access repositories, selected university affiliated, open access repositories.

Use the websites listed below to find freely accessible (open access) dissertations from the United States and other countries.  While all repositories listed here include doctoral dissertations, Master's theses may be available in some cases as well.

Regis College maintains print copies of Regis student theses and dissertations in the Regis Library.  They are not digitized although individual students may have submitted their dissertation to a digital repository.

• American Doctoral Dissertations (EBSCO) A free resource, hosted by EBSCO, this database includes more than 172,000 theses and dissertations in total from 1902 to the present.
• British Library: EThOS, E-theses Online Service EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service. EThOS aims to hold a record for all doctoral theses awarded by all UK universities (institutions). Also available when using Regis Library discovery tool, PowerSearch.
• Digital Commons Network Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 4,264,663 theses and dissertations.
• PQDT Open PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access.
• Theses Canada Theses Canada is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 universities accredited by Universities Canada. It strives to: acquire and preserve theses and dissertations from participating universities; provide free access to Canadian electronic theses and dissertations in the collection.

These digital repositories maintained by various universities enable public access to theses and dissertations.  These are just a select sample; there are many other repositories associated with universities.

• Duke University: Duke Space, Theses and Dissertations
• Harvard University: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) Also available when using Regis Library discovery tool, PowerSearch.
• Johns Hopkins University: DSpace Repository
• Northeastern University: Digital Reposity Service: Theses and Dissertations
• University of Washington: ResearchWorks
• Walden University Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
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• EBSCO Open Dissertations

OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research.

• E-Theses Online Service (EThOS)

EThOS aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers to further their own research.

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

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• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes theses and dissertations.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.  You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format.

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Theses Canada is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Canadian universities.

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A study of the characteristics of a differential privacy implementation , Niveah T. Abraham

Additive Manufacturing for Aerodynamic Diffuser Designs in a Centrifugal Compressor , Ruben Adkins-Rieck

Synthesis of Stable Open-Shell Moieties and Polymers for Charge Transfer Applications , Varad Vinayak Agarkar

Experimental Study of a Transcritical Thermoacoustic Device , Dayle N. Alexander

Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis for Membrane Distillation , Albraa A. Alsaati

Changes in Audiovisual Word Perception During Mid-Childhood: An ERP Study , Elizabeth Ancel

Control of Urea Dosing for Urea SCR System in a Diesel-Powered Vehicle , Harshil Rajesh Angre

Exploring the Cognitive Tasks Surrounding Professional Horse Judging Practices in Stock- Type Halter Classes , Paige Marie Arehart

Touch Screen Assessment of At-Risk Infant Comprehension , Rachel Elizabeth Hahn Arkenberg

Effects of a mobile tablet device and an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) application on individuals with an acquired communication disorder: Influence on communication abilities and quality of life , Yamini Balasubramanian

Determining the Influence of Evidence-Based Messaging on Millennial Agriculturalists’ Attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) Foods , Erica M. Ballmer

Advanced Torque Control Strategy for the Maha Hydraulic Hybrid Passenger Vehicle. , Pranay Banerjee

MR-compatible Electrophysiology Recording System for Multimodal Imaging , Nishant B. Barbaria

Optimization of Zein Based Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Biosensor for the Detection Of Gliadin as a Marker for Celiac Disease , Emma A. Barber

Automated Power Consumption Scheduling for Connected Appliances in a Remodeled, Energy Efficient House , Andrew W. Batek

Effect of Surface Treatments on Radiation Tolerance of ATI 718Plus Alloy , Yerik Bazarbayev

The Role of Material Complexity in Retrieval Practice Effects , Joseph P. Bedwell

The Effects of Card Playing on Cognition , Julia Nicole Bergmann

Double-Crop Soybean Response to Maturity Group and Plant Population in the Ohio River Valley Region , Stephen J. Boersma

Demonstrator for Selectively Compliant Morphing Systems with Multi-stable Structures , David M. Boston

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Double Perovskites , Andrew Kent Bowser

Comparing Disdrometer-measured Raindrop Size Distributions from VORTEX-SE with Distributions from Polarimetric Radar Retrievals Using the Constrained Gamma Method , Jessica Bozell

Working Equids: A Case Study Investigating if Locus of Control Effects Welfare in Central America , Lauren Ann Brizgys

Exploring Double Consciousness: The Rhetoric and Retention of Black Graduate Students at Predominantly White Institutions , Kimberly Nicole Broughton

Prevalence and Control of Listeria monocytogenes and S. enterica in Retail Produce Environments , John Lawrence Burnett

Supervised Machine Learning Applications to Winter Road Impacts , Kevin D. Burris

Evaluating the Effects of Education on Student Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Regarding Food Waste , Rebecca Busse

High Resolution Temperature Measurement Using TERS , Qian Cao

SafeguaRDP: an Architecture for Mediated Control of Desktop Applications by Untrusted Crowd Workers , Sylvia T. Carrell

Droplet Spreading on a Substrate , Chao-Ying Chen

Evaluation of Economic Improvement in United States and China Pork Industry through Modeling and Genetic Tools , Jian Cheng

Effects of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on adults' diet quality , Kaiyan Chen

UV/Chlorine Treatment of ANTX-a , Moshan Chen

Effects of Carbon Nanotubes on Microbial Growth and Horizontal Gene Transfer , Ran Chen

A Mapping of Applied Electric Fields in the Spinal Cord via Finite Element Analysis , Kavya Cherukuri

Modeling and Parameter Characterization of A Betavoltaic Cell , Darrell S. Cheu

The approach to ridge regression for big data: An examination , Wan-Chih Chiang

Predicting Customer Complaints in Mobile Telecom Industry Using Machine Learning Algorithms , Chiyoung Choi

Experimental Study of Fractional Order Behavior in Dynamic Systems , Rajarshi Choudhuri

Categorizing HBSI Errors Using Wearable Trackers. , Jeffrey Chudik

Evaluation of Additive Manufacturing Technology for Microchannel Heat Sinks , Ivel Lee Collins

Care Givers: Motivating and Enhancing Non-Profit Caregivers’ Experiences , Mingchu Cong

Design and 3D Printing of Integrated Fluid Power Components , Alfonso Costas

The Mnemonic Effect of Choice , Michelle E. Coverdale

Chocolate Almond Milk Consumption Changes SalivaryProline-Rich Protein Expression, whichAlterAstringencyandBitterness , Ciera Crawford

Living in a Liminal Space: Standing Rock and Storytelling as a Tool of Activism , Janelle Cronin

Hyperspectral Modeling of Relative Water Content and Nitrogen Content in Sorghum and Maize , Valerie Cross

Ultrasonic Attenuation of Bridge Steels and Narrow-gap Improved Electroslag Welds , Bridget M. Crowley

A Lexically Driven Taxonomy for Political Campaign Interactions on Twitter , Joshua Curth

Identifying Pollinator Species of Indiana Soybean Fields and their Potential Contributions to Yield , Brooke Dennis

Detection and Management of Diabetes Mellitus (Type -II) , Ridhi Deo

Community Detection in Cyber Networks , Harsha Vithalrao Deshmukh

Using corn zein to improve the quality of gluten-free bread , Aminata Diatta

Validation of Object Identification and Tracking in Radar Imagery , Daniel T. Dietz

Characterization of an Aluminum-Lithium Alloy Based Composite Propellant at Elevated Pressures , Gabriel Diez

Quality and Economic Analysis of Green Coffee Beans Stored in Purdue Improved Crop Storage Bags , Natalie Kay Donovan

Liquid-Vapor Imaging in Fuel Sprays Using Lifetime-Filtered Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence , Alber Douglawi

Improving Hotel Demand Forecasting Accuracy by Identifying Seasonality-Adjusted Outliers , Tingting Duan

Development of tools to reduce risk of nosocomial and foodborne pathogens exposure , Paula A. Duarte-Guevara

Simulating composite delamination with a damage-type cohesive zone model , Haodong Du

Distribution and Spread of an Invasive Shrub (Pyrus calleryana Decne) Across Environmental Gradients in Southern Indiana , Kalli Dunn

Enrichment of Turbulence Field Using Wavelets , Yifan Du

Habitat and Interspecific Interactions Affect Mesocarnivore Occupancy in the Eastern U.S. , Michael Egan

BioDynamic Imaging System: A novel, noninvasive method for assessing embryo viability. , Natalie Ehmke

Who Are We Now? Examining Internal Organizational Communication During Crisis , Elizabeth England

Electrostatic Regulation of Phospholipase C beta Enzymes , Candi Michelle Esquina

Parental Restrictive Feeding with Latino Adolescents: Examining the Role of Adolescent Self-Regulation in Associations with Body Mass Index , Carly Danae Evich

Genetics and Genomics of Golden Eagle Populations with Contrasting Demographic Histories , Nadia B. Fernandez

Micropropulsion Trade Study and Investigation for Attitude Control of Nanosatellites , Katherine L. Fowee

Power Management Modeling of Electric Machine Converter Systems , Drummond R. Fudge

Activity markers and horse riding in Mongolia: Entheseal changes among Bronze and Iron Age human skeletal remains , Matthew R. Fuka

Exploring The Effects of a STEM Integrated Program Experience on Girl Scouts’ Pro-environmental Intentions , Miranda E. Furrer

Development of a Finite Volume General Two-phase Navier-Stokes Solver for Direct Numerical Simulations on Cut-Cells with Sharp Fixed Interface , Vishwanath Ganesan

Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for UAV Applications , John J. Ganser

The Effects on User Perception of Uniqueness of Three Factors as Applied to 3-Dimensional Tree Models , Ge Gao

The Acquisition of Aspectual Properties in Reflexive Psych Predicates and Physical Change of State Verbs , Aida Garcia Tejada

Refiguring Hybridity in Star Trek , Elizabeth Gellis

Synthesis of Next Generation Open-Shell Small Molecules: Effects of Functional Group Modulation of Blatter’s Radical , Stephen Gilbert

Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Project Delivery for Infrastructure Projects in Peru. , Sulyn Cossett Gomez Villanueva

The Effects of Agronomic Management and 40 Years of Variety Release on Soybean Seed Fill and Yield Components , Kathryn Graf

Acorn Dispersal and Oak Regeneration in a Managed Landscape , Skye M. Greenler

Aerosol Impacts on Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms in VORTEX2 and VORTEX-SE , Mingyang Guo

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In the summer of 2023, the Digital Initiatives department began work on an exciting, long-term project, which focused on the department’s large collection of donated theses and dissertations. With theses originating from schools and colleges across MU’s campus, our department has collected upwards of 1,400 theses waiting to be digitized. Last August, we eagerly began the process of sorting through each thesis and dissertation, with the intention to eventually digitize and deposit them into our online repository, MOspace. Now, as we rapidly approach the one-year mark to the start of this project, our department is excited to share a brief overview and first look at this expanding collection.

When faced with the daunting task of digitizing over a thousand theses, the very beginning of our journey had to start with a thorough organization and sorting process. Our task for step one was to weed out any “unwanted” copies. An “unwanted” copy would include any non-official, non-MU, and non-graduate thesis or theses without advisor signature approvals (which would classify the thesis as “non-official”). We also wanted to eliminate any excess theses, including duplicate copies or theses that have already been digitized and deposited in MOspace.

The remaining theses entered step two of this project, which included a thorough copyright evaluation process, determining each thesis’s copyright status. Theses currently in the Public Domain were set aside for digitization, since they can be made freely available on MOspace. Theses with a copyright symbol (or published past 1989) were boxed up and sent to storage for later digitization.

The actual digitization process of this project didn’t begin until November 2023, and we expect it will continue over several of the following months. With the tremendous help and hard work of our two speedy student workers, Digital Initiatives has officially digitized 42 theses and 176 dissertations, making a total of 218 donated theses and dissertations added to our online collection:   https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/3987 . That’s an average of 27 theses a month!

As our department looks back on this past year of hard work, we are eager to see what the rest of the year holds regarding this project. While it is just the beginning, we are already thrilled with all of the exciting progress we have made and look forward to our journey ahead, as we work to make these theses and dissertations available for our MOspace users. Be sure to look out for further updates regarding this project in the near future, as we have many exciting things to share ahead of us!

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Supporting Dissertation Writers Through the Silent Struggle

While we want Ph.D. students to be independent, our practices can signal that we’re not available to support them when they need it, writes Ramon B. Goings.

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Consider the following discussion. A student tells me, “I have so much going on right now. I’m trying to write this dissertation, take care of my mom and raise my kids. I’m giving to everyone else and have nothing left to write.”

“Thanks for sharing,” I respond. “Have you reached out to your adviser to discuss what is happening and see what resources you might be able to access?”

“My adviser said they will meet with me when I have a document ready for them to review. They are too busy,” the student says. “I’ve just been struggling in silence and don’t know what to do.”

This conversation highlights the reality for many doctoral students—they may experience hardships in silence. The doctoral journey is an interesting experience during which students are provided structure through coursework and then, once they enter the dissertation phase, that structure is removed. They usually are in a position where they have to manage everything themselves.

As faculty members, we try to provide the space of intellectual curiosity for our students and allow them to explore their dissertation topics. However, while we want students to be independent, our practices can signal that we are not available to support them when they need it. What are some strategies that we should consider implementing to support our students who too often struggle in silence? Below are three that I have implemented in my chairing process.

Create an environment where students can share. Students want to meet our expectations and standards. Yet in efforts to not burden us, some students may choose not to reach out to us when they are experiencing challenges. In some instances, they also do not come to us due to the fear—and, at times, the reality—that they will face adverse consequence for doing so. While that can occur during the coursework phase, it is even more common when students are writing their dissertations, because they believe they must be independent scholars and figure everything out on their own.

To combat those situations, we as dissertation chairs must first create an environment where students can feel comfortable to share what they are going through. One simple way to foster that type of relationship is to first ensure that you make time to meet regularly with your advisees. While that may seem to be an obvious practice, I often hear from doctoral students, like the one in the opening vignette of this article, that they find it challenging just to get on their chair’s calendar. That can unintentionally signal to them that we as faculty members are not available. As a faculty member, I know we have many demands on our time. To support my students, I have dedicated times each week when students can meet with me as needed. Making the time consistent on my calendar allows me to ensure other activities do not get in the way of meeting with students. To be more efficient, I created a special Calendly meeting link that has time slots open for students to schedule.

Programs should also have regular faculty meetings to discuss student academic progress, along with any well-being challenges such as mental health and/or life challenges. Sometimes a student is more comfortable talking with a faculty member who is not on their dissertation committee, and having such conversations can provide a space for all faculty members to learn what is going on and potentially troubleshoot before a student’s difficulties gets worse.

Choose your words with care. As dissertation chairs, our words hold significant power with our advisees. Those words become even more important when our students are experiencing personal and/or professional challenges. To illustrate this point, I offer you one word that, when used, can be a trigger for students: concern.

Students have told me that if we use the word “concern” when talking with them, it signals something is drastically wrong with what they are doing. So if I am relaying information—especially feedback—to students, I ask myself the following before I speak:

• Is what I need to share truly a concern? For example, some students receive a concern comment when minor or moderate editorial changes—grammar, syntax, formatting and the like—are needed. While those must be fixed, they don’t usually rise to the level of concern that impacts the integrity of the study, a misalignment between the research questions and methodology.
• Can I express my thoughts in a more detailed way rather than just expressing concern? In the example above, if I thought the student’s editorial work needed updates, I would explain that to them and provide examples on how the student can make the changes that I am requesting.

I am certainly aware that interpretation is important, but while students can take feedback from us on their work, I have learned to be reflective about what I say. It can influence their self-confidence, a key component for completing the dissertation process.

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Understand your role is not a problem solver but solution facilitator. When I talk with other faculty members, some are quick to declare they are scientists, not therapists, so supporting their students’ distinct life challenges isn’t in their job description. I also agree that it’s not our role as faculty members to solve students’ problems for them. But we can provide a listening ear and, most of all, connect students to the various resources that can support them in their decision making.

For instance, a chair I know was advising a doctoral student who was communicative when writing their proposal and moved through the process fairly quickly. Then, after the student collected their data, the chair noticed that the student slowed down their progress and that when they met the student exhibited some uncharacteristic behaviors. Fortunately, the two had established a positive rapport, so the faculty member was able to learn that the student was unexpectedly taking on caregiving responsibilities for a sibling while experiencing some housing instability. In that case, the faculty member was able to connect the student with a campus resource for caregivers and, through it, the student was able to find housing support.

I know many faculty members are already engaging in the practices that I’ve suggested, but I continue to encounter doctoral students at the dissertation phase who are suffering in silence.

I invite you to share with me in conversations on X any other successful strategies you’ve implemented to support your doctoral students. My mission is to bring to light some of these ideas so we can make our graduate programs spaces where our students can flourish.

Ramon B. Goings ( @ramongoings ) is an associate professor in the language, literacy and culture doctoral program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and founder of Done Dissertation .

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USER-CENTERED DATA ACCESS CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR SECURE AND PRIVACY-AWARE MOBILE SYSTEMS

The pervasive integration of mobile devices in today’s modern world, e.g., smartphones, IoT, and mixed-reality devices, has transformed various domains, enhancing user experiences, yet raising concerns about data security and privacy. Despite the implementation of various measures, such as permissions, to protect user privacy-sensitive data, vulnerabilities persist. These vulnerabilities pose significant threats to user privacy, including the risk of side-channel attacks targeting low-permission sensors. Additionally, the introduction of new permissions, such as the App Tracking Transparency framework in iOS, seeks to enhance user transparency and control over data sharing practices. However, these framework designs are accompanied by ambiguous developer guidelines, rendering them susceptible to deceptive patterns. These patterns can influence user perceptions and decisions, undermining the intended purpose of these permissions. Moreover, the emergence of new mobile technologies, e.g., mixed-reality devices, presents novel challenges in ensuring secure data sharing among multiple users in collaborative environments, while preserving usability.

In this dissertation, I focus on developing user-centered methods for enhancing the security and privacy of mobile system, navigating through the complexities of unsolicited data access strategies and exploring innovative approaches to secure device authentication and data sharing methodologies.

To achieve this, first, I introduce my work on the iStelan system, a three-stage side-channel attack. This method exploits the low-permission magnetometer sensor in smartphones to infer user sensitive touch data and application usage patterns. Through an extensive user study, I demonstrate the resilience of iStelan across different scenarios, surpassing the constraints and limitations of prior research efforts.

Second, I present my analysis and study on the App Tracking Transparency permission in iOS. Specifically, my work focuses on analyzing and detecting the dark patterns employed by app developers in the permission alerts to obtain user consent. I demonstrate my findings on the dark patterns observed in permission alerts on a large-scale of apps collected from Apple’s store, using both static and dynamic analysis methods. Additionally, I discuss the application of a between-subject user study to evaluate users’ perceptions and understanding when exposed to different alert patterns.

Lastly, I introduce StareToPair, a group pairing system that leverages multi-modal sensing technologies in mixed-reality devices to enable secure data sharing in collaborative settings. StareToPair employs a sophisticated threat model capable of addressing various real-world scenarios, all while ensuring high levels of scalability and usability.

Through rigorous investigation, theoretical analysis and user studies, my research endeavors enhance the field of security and privacy for mobile systems. The insights gained from these studies offer valuable guidance for future developments in mobile systems, ultimately contributing to the design of user-centered secure and privacy-aware mobile ecosystems.

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Resilient Microservice Applications, by Design, and without the Chaos

 Fault injection testing is vital for assessing the resilience of distributed microservice applications against infrastructure and downstream service failures. Typically performed in production, where customers may be adversely affected by this testing, it often fails to identify application bugs, particularly infrequent ones or those which only affect a subset of customers. While academics recognize the problem of resilience bug detection, in development, and prior to deployment of application code to production, their research has been limited by access to industrial applications, which has resulted in solutions that may or may not be fully aligned with the industry’s needs. 

This dissertation demonstrates that these types of resilience bugs can be identified during development, and before deployment of application code to production , through the use of a developer-centric fault injection technique and a principled approach to microservice application testing. It then demonstrates that it can be done in a manner that does align with industrial practitioner’s needs by co-evolving this fault injection technique and principled approach with an industrial partner, one of the largest food delivery services in the United States, which results in the discovery of deep, previously undiscovered, resilience bugs in their application. 

This dissertation begins by first constructing a microservice application corpus and introducing a novel tracing technique that captures all inter-service communication in a microservice application. Combined with the corpus, this tracing technique enables the development of an exhaustive fault injection testing technique designed specifically for microservice environments. This technique is then refined by implementing a novel test case reduction strategy to minimize the exploration of redundant fault injection scenarios, thereby increasing the performance and usability of the technique. The practicality of these techniques is then validated using a case study taken from an industrial microservice application. While this case study confirms the fault injection technique’s effectiveness, it both highlights deficiencies in the application of the technique and identifies emergent behavior that is inherent to industrial microservice applications and their piecemeal approach to application resilience. These observations inform the design of a new principled approach for testing microservice applications for resilience, which extends the fault injection technique’s usability by ensuring that developers write tests for their applications that are sufficient for bug identification. 

With this principled approach, it is shown that deep, previously undiscovered, resilience bugs can be identified in large-scale, industrial microservice applications, in development, and before code ships to production. 

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