How to Contribute
Submissions are welcome from any current or former student who completed the Master of Science in Biology from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. There are several ways to prepare your thesis, depending on whether you still have a usable on-disk copy.
- If you are currently a student, please contact Dr. Clark (jcclark@csupomona.edu) before you begin work on your thesis.
- If you created your thesis with a "recent" (no more than ten years old) word-processor program on Windows or Macintosh, it can often be turned directly into an Acrobat file.
- If you own a copy of Adobe Acrobat (the full program, not Acrobat Reader), you probably already know how to create Acrobat files. You can send the Acrobat file of your thesis as an email attachment (please warn me in advance if it is large) or mail or deliver a disk to the Biological Sciences office.
- If you don't have Acrobat, please send an email message letting me know the program you used to create your thesis, and we can decide on the best way to proceed.
- If you don't have an electronic copy or are unable to use it, you can still scan the paper copy of the thesis and turn it into an Acrobat file.
- If you have a scanner and Adobe Acrobat (the full program, not Acrobat Reader), simply follow the directions. If you have any problems, contact Curtis Clark (jcclark@csupomona.edu)
- If you have a scanner but no Acrobat, you can scan each page at 300 dpi, black-and-white, and save the files as GIF or compressed TIF (not JPEG). Then you can email these as attachments (please warn me in advance) or mail or deliver a disk to the Biological Sciences office.
- If you don't have a scanner, you can arrange to use a computer in a Biological Sciences computer lab to make the Acrobat file. Hands-on instruction will be provided, but unfortunately there is no current support for anyone else to digitize your thesis.