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Navigating the ProQuest Electronic Submission Process

After you have successfully defended your dissertation and made any committee requested changes, the Office of Graduate Studies requires that you create an online account at ProQuest ( http://www.etdadmin.com/wustl ) to submit your final text. ProQuest is this country’s most widely used commercial archiving service for dissertations and theses. This guide is to inform and advise you in making selections through the submission process in ProQuest. The tabs below including “Publishing Options”, “PDF”, and “Register U.S. Copyright” require special attention and will be addressed in detail.

Before you create your account, make sure that you have the following items at hand:

• The full text of your dissertation, formatted as a PDF, with embedded fonts
• Supplementary files and/or supporting documents (optional)
• The body of your abstract, without the heading; note that there is no word limit on your abstract
• A full list of your committee members
• Any copyright permissions obtained; these will need to be submitted as a part of this process.

Log in to ETD Administrator. If you have not yet created an account, you must do so now. Make sure to register with an email address that is checked regularly, even after your graduation.

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After you have created your account and logged in, select “Submit ETD” from the “My ETDs” tab.

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On the left side of the webpage, you will see a menu of checkboxes that look like the following image. This portion of the guide will take you through each checkbox, step by step.

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The instructions page includes similar information to what we have up above; please review and then click continue, which will bring you to the second checkbox, “PQ Publishing Options”.

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The first half of this page requires you to indicate a selection for either “traditional” publishing or “open access” publishing.

Washington University is committed to providing open access for scholarly work authored by WUSTL students and faculty. Therefore, the WU Library has launched a platform called  Open Scholarship :  http://openscholarship.wustl.edu . When a student submits a dissertation to ProQuest, the Library automatically receives an electronic copy and makes it available on Open Scholarship. However, the Library respects all limitations, such as embargoes, that authors set on their submissions in ProQuest.

As you can see in the image below, Open Access Publishing PLUS requires a $95 registration fee, whereas Traditional Publishing is free for Washington University students; the Library pays the fee to ProQuest for this option. Because the Open Scholarship platform will give your dissertation as much open access, at no charge, as ProQuest will charge $95 to give it, we recommend that students choose Traditional Publishing.

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The second half of the PQ Publishing Options page asks you to select your publishing and access options.

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The table below, from ProQuest, is an excellent summary of the advice our office would give you about whether or not you should embargo your dissertation.

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If you choose to embargo your work, select “No – I have patents pending, or another reason why I need to delay access to the full text of my work” and select how long an embargo you would like. If you need to embargo your work for more than two years, request as long an embargo as you wish by using the “Note to administrator” text box.

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You can lift an embargo on your work at any time – or impose or extend an embargo – by contacting both ProQuest (at  [email protected]  or 1.877.408.5027) and the Washington University Libraries (at  [email protected] ) directly.

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On the contact information page, please use an email address that is checked regularly, because that is how the Office of Graduate Studies will get in touch with you regarding your submission. Please note that you must include an abstract on the Dissertation/Thesis details page, even if your dissertation does not include one. There is no word limit on your abstract.

You are required to submit your dissertation as a PDF.

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You do not need to register your claim to copyright in order to include a copyright page in your manuscript. If your dissertation is not itself of monetary value and does not contain information of monetary value, then registering your claim to copyright is not necessary. In order to sue others for monetary damages caused by their infringing your copyright, you must have registered your claim to copyright.

If you wish to register your claim to copyright, you may choose to have ProQuest act as your agent to register your copyright for a fee, or you may decline that service and register your work yourself. More information about copyright registration can be found at  http://libguides.wustl.edu/copyright/registration .

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There is an alternate way to order copies of your dissertation. See the section called “How to submit copies for printing and binding”.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Link to proquest platform libguide, new citation connections, look up lists, document view: supplemental files, order a copy and references.

In this page we will show the unique search features for ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  . Go to the Platform LibGuide for a complete guide to ProQuest's search and display features.

ProQuest brings more focus to the search process by combining its unique dissertation citation database with knowledge graph technology, delivering only highly relevant, impactful sources, including newspapers, journal articles, dissertations, and more. The new Citation Connections, a dynamic network discovery tool which transform each dissertation or theses into a catalyst for topic-related source collection for all types of users.

Foundational Research

Foundational Research panel displays all those records who shares at least five similar references with the seed document. These foundational research documents are available with number of citations which may be journal articles, newspapers, books, dissertations, video etc. Foundational Research records are ranked according to the frequency with which they are cited by documents in the Neighborhood. These documents are available in ProQuest databases that have cited this source.

The idea behind the Foundational Research papers is to connect the students and research scholars with those highly cited research documents which have related themes and ideas with the seed document. This collection of Foundational Research documents can be useful when building a foundational understanding of a topic or when selecting a topic for a research project.

Dissertation citations

Dissertation citations are extracted, cross-linked, and searchable, offering users a “ready-made” list of sources on a topic through Reference links, Cited by links, and Shared References links. Researchers can quickly build a credible source list targeted to their specific topic.

Similar Dissertations 

Similar Dissertations is a collection of dissertations with research closely aligned with the seed document displayed on the page, which can be useful to identify other dissertations that have been written on this topic. 

Similarity Index 

The similarity index is used to rank the collection of Similar Dissertations by the degree of relationship to the topic of the seed document displayed on the page. The closer the score is to 100%, the more likely this dissertation is about the same topic .  

Shared References

Shared References is the number of references in common with the seed document displayed on the page. The more references in common, the more likely the overlap in the topic of research. 

Click on any “i” icon to view the description of a feature for more information. 

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses  offers five   Look ups or browsable indexes, so you can easily find spelling or format variations of, for example, an author's name or a subject name. You can find the Look up links in the advanced search page and they are available for the following searchable fields: Author, Advisor, Subject name, Index term and School name. For a description of these fields, please see the Searchable fields table to the right. 

Note: Look ups are also available from the Command Line search (through the Look up terms link). 

To use and locate a Look up or browsable index, select the field from the Advanced Search pull-down menu. If a Look up is available, under the search row you will see a link to the Look up. Other Look ups and browsable indexes will be listed in the Limit To section of the Advanced Search page.

Each Look-up provides a search and browse function and the ability to add multiple terms separated by Boolean Operators similar to the thesaurus.

Some of the Look up links will be listed in the lower section of the advanced search page.

In Advanced Search, you can find 2 boxes with advanced limiters:  Manuscript types  provides a controlled list highly specific to this database, and  Language features  allows to select dissertation/thesis with  several types of  languages.

In your results page, you might see links to supplemental files, order a copy and references, if available.

Supplemental files are included if part of the documentation that had been submitted with the dissertations/theses text to enhance the scholarly record. You can download the supplemental files as required:

You can use the order a copy tab to purchase any dissertation/thesis.

You can dive deeper into the relevant literature by reviewing references within each dissertation on your topic. Examining the resources that other authors rely upon may reveal a very useful resource that hadn’t turned up in your own search .

If one of the References is available to your library through another ProQuest database, you will be able to click on the reference to view the full record.

On results page, you can also get an unique option to filter the documents based on university/institution and university/institution location.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global offers browsing (in addition to searching) as a way of finding content. Use this page to easily locate dissertations/theses based on subject and location.

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Answer Last Updated: Jun 28, 2023 Views: 12768

When citing dissertations, the publication number is usually preferred, since it is more widely recognized..

• In ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, click the Abstract/Details page
• Look for the Dissertation/thesis  number.
• Use Publication No.  or Order No. in front of the publication/order number when citing the dissertation in APA.

Example citation:

Johnson, E. K. (2003). Word segmentation during infancy: The role of subphonemic cues to word boundaries (Order No.

3080693). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (288178193).

•   Scroll down the article information page to Dissertation/thesis number  and include Publication No.  before the number.

For more information see the APA Style website resource:  Published Dissertation or Thesis References .

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The Legacy ETD collection includes all theses or dissertations submitted to ProQuest electronically between 2008 and 2022.

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By making this work openly available in Scholars Archive and sharing this scholarship with the global community free of charge, UAlbany’s valuable scholarship enjoys a broader reach and deeper impact and better embodies the spirit of the Graduate School and UAlbany’s mission to provide “the leaders, the knowledge, and the innovations to create a better world.”

Note: Retrospective ETDs are provided for research and educational purposes only and are under copyright by the author or the author’s heirs.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact us .

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