What sort of works may be submitted? Who can submit a work?
Submission at Melodic is currently reserved for Meadville Lombard student theses, projects, dissertations, and other capstone projects. Only current or recently graduated Meadville Lombard students, alumni, faculty, or staff with a valid @meadville.edu email address may submit them. Meadville Lombard alumni who graduated in 2023 or earlier may still submit but should contact the Director of Wiggin Library at jdechant@meadville.edu.
How do I submit a work?
New submissions are ONLY for final Meadville Lombard theses or projects. By submitting a thesis/project, you are verifying that:
1. You successfully defended the work before your Defense Committee
2. You made all the revisions required by your Defense Committee
3. The work follows the formatting rules of the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style/the 9th edition of Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (see our thesis & project format guides for more information)
To submit your thesis/project, follow these steps:
- If you have not already been provided login credentials, use the Contact tab to send a message with issue type Depositing content and request login credentials.
- You should receive an email to set up an account within two business days. Click on the link in the email and create a password for your account.
- Once logged in, you should be at your Dashboard. You can begin adding your work by clicking on Works in the left side bar and then clicking on the blue Add New Work button on the right. Alternatively, you can click on the turquoise Share Your Work button on the Melodic homepage.
- Select ETD (Electronic Theses & Dissertations) and then Create work.
- Under the Descriptions tab, you must fill in:
- Title: the full title of your work
- Creator: your full name in Last name, First name format
- Rights Statement: unless you want to forego any copyright, make sure you select In Copyright!
- Year: the four digit year in which you finished and submitted your work
- Abstract: the 100 word or less summary of your work as a whole (see our Writing Guide for help)
- Resource Type: select whether the work is a D.Min. Project, Thesis, or other type of work
- Host Institution: select Meadville Lombard Theological School
- Degree: type in the full name of your degree, i.e., Master of Arts in Religion or Doctor of Ministry)
- Degree Granting Institution: type in Meadville Lombard Theological School)
- Type: select Text (unless your work is not composed mostly of text)
- Subject: Try your best to fill in the major subject headings of your work (the major fields, concepts, people, and places in your work), referring to the links to the subjects and FAST subject headings lists. Make sure to type in a single subject in each line, clicking on +Add another to create a new line for a new subject heading. These subject headings will help readers discover your work! Don't worry too much about getting this perfect. A librarian will review your submission and will fix this area if need be, although having you, the author, start this section helps!
- You may optionally fill in the last two areas:
- Keyword: Fill in a similar way to the Subject area above.
- License: If you to allow for a Creative Commons license, select the desired license. If you leave this area blank, you will default to a standard Copyright.
- At the top, click on the Files tab, then +Add files..., upload your work in PDF/A format (for information on how to save in PDF/A format, see our Thesis & Project guide).
- Read and agree to the Deposit Agreement to the right and click on the box verifying that you have read and agree to it.
- Select your desired accessibility option and click the Save button.
- You're all finished! A librarian will review your submission and as necessary edit the items in the Descriptions page, or contact you with any concerns.
Who can I contact for help?
If you have further questions, require further assistance in submitting your work, or require other accessibility options for submitting your work, please contact us via the Contact tab above or email the Director of Wiggin Library at jdechant@meadville.edu.