For decades graduate students submitted their dissertations and theses to the library and these were bound and placed on our library shelves to be read by those that came into the library or by others that could borrow them through interlibrary loan. Then they were also sent to University Microfilms which eventually became ProQuest. Now we are putting them into our institutional repositories. As librarians we need to prepare graduate students to this new digital environment. They need to understand how to use the work of others as well as what will happen to their own work. Publisher policies can be complicated, and if they want to publish their work later, they need to understand embargoes, copyright, open access, author rights, creative commons licenses, ORCID and more. Creative writing work presents its own challenges. New options for attaching research data to dissertations are now available. This presentation will share how graduate students at Western Michigan University are being informed of these options.