(1) Take the required Thesis & Project Format Canvas Tutorial. This thirty minute workshop will save you hours of formatting work later. (2) Use the pre-formatted, department approved Word templates available at the Grad Studies website. Review the information on that site for additional recommendations. (3) Submit a draft of your thesis or project for a courtesy review to cfr@humboldt.edu (the deadline is typically two weeks before the Monday of finals week, but check the Cal Poly Humboldt Theses and Projects webpage for the official upcoming deadline dates). For the courtesy review, you will receive our comments on any format changes that need to be made in the form of comments on the Microsoft Word file. You do not need to resubmit for another courtesy review after you make the format changes, you will just need to have them corrected when you submit your final thesis or project to the Cal Poly Humboldt Theses and Projects webpage in Digital Commons for the final format review.

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Make sure all committee members and the program graduate coordinator have seen your thesis/project and are onboard to register their approvals. To register your committee approvals, use the Adobe Sign Graduate Thesis/Project Committee Approval Form. Upload a pdf of your thesis to the form and send it to your committee members and program graduate coordinator no later than the Monday of finals week. However, we recommend sending this form the week before to give your committee members and graduate coordinator enough time to register their approvals before the final submission deadline. Please see the Adobe Sign Form Instructions for assistance. After all approvals are in, you can submit your thesis to the Scholarly Communications Office for the required format review.

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Go to the Cal Poly Humboldt Theses and Projects webpage in Digital Commons and select the Submit button in the right-side menu. When prompted to login on the My Account webpage, click the “CLICK HERE TO LOG-IN WITH myHumboldt” pink button. If you do not have an active Cal Poly Humboldt email, you will need to create a new account through the “Sign Up” link on the My Account page. After you create a new account, Digital Commons will send you a confirmation email with a link to get you started. If you are unable to log in, please contact Digital Commons technical support at dc-support@bepress.com or (510) 665-1200.

After logging in and accepting the license agreement, you will enter your information, attach your thesis in Microsoft Word, and click Submit. Please stay on the page until Digital Commons confirms you have uploaded correctly. The deadline for submission is the typically the Tuesday of finals week at 11:59am. Check the Cal Poly Humboldt Theses and Projects webpage for details. Please contact cfr@humboldt.edu if you have any questions.

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Your submission will be reviewed for compliance with university formatting and accessibility requirements. Your thesis or project will not be reviewed for content, research quality, spelling, punctuation, grammar, bibliographic format, plagiarism. The outcome of the reviews will be as follows:

• No formatting issues: Your document will be archived by the university library. You will receive notice via email that the culminating experience portion of your degree is cleared.
• One to ten formatting issues: You will receive instructions for correcting the format errors and length of time allowed for resubmission of your document. The Scholarly Communications Team reserves the right to make minor formatting corrections if expediency is required for approval.
• Eleven or more formatting issues: You and your committee will be notified by email that your document is being returned for correction and revision. If there are numerous or major formatting errors you may be advised to change your graduation date to the following term.

Once finalized and approved, the library will archive your document in Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt. You will receive notification from the library via email when your document is available through Digital Commons.

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Once your thesis/project has been approved by committee members, no further edits may be applied to the file.

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The author grants to Cal Poly Humboldt the non-exclusive right to reproduce, translate (as defined below), and/or distribute your submission (including the abstract) worldwide in print and electronic format and in any medium, including but not limited to audio or video. The author agrees that Cal Poly Humboldt may, without changing the content, translate the submission to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation and that Cal Poly Humboldt may keep more than one copy of this submission for purposes of security, back-up and preservation.

The author agrees that agents of, or affiliates working with, Graduate Studies, Scholarly Communications, or the Accessibility Resource Center may edit your document to meet Cal Poly Humboldt and California State University formatting and accessibility requirements, and may edit your metadata to address spelling, grammar, and formatting standards. Cal Poly Humboldt will clearly identify the submitter's name as the author of the submission, and will not make any alteration, other than as allowed by this license, to the submission.

The author represents that the submission is their original work, and that they have the right to grant the rights contained in this license. The author also represent that the submission does not, to the best of their knowledge, infringe upon anyone's copyright. If the submission contains material for which the author does not hold copyright, the author is responsible for ensuring that such third-party material is clearly identified and acknowledged within the text or content of the submission AND permission to freely distribute the content has been obtained from the copyright owner OR access to the third-party content is permitted via fair use, license agreement, or public domain status.

If the submission is based upon work that has been sponsored or supported by an agency or organization other than Cal Poly Humboldt, the author represents that they have fulfilled any right of review or other obligations required by such contract or agreement.

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