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Dissertation & Doctoral Project Formatting & Clearance: Submitting to ProQuest ETD

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SPRING 2024 CHANGES TO THE DISSERTATION CLEARANCE PROCESS

In order to streamline the dissertation clearance process, the following changes have been made, effective 3-1-2024 .

1. The Dissertation Cataloging Form is no longer necessary.

2. The Dissertation Clearance Form is now initiated directly by the student, and only through Adobe Sign - Signed PDFs and scanned forms have been replaced by Adobe Sign.

3. Students completing dissertation clearance are no longer required to schedule a meeting with their DCR (Dissertation Clearance Representative). If they have questions about what to do, they are welcome to schedule a DCR appointment, but it is not required.

If you have questions about these changes or other aspects of the process, contact [email protected] and we will be happy to assist.

Who is my DCR (Dissertation Clearance Rep)?

EMERYVILLE Scott Zimmer 858-635-4553 [email protected]  

FRESNO Adan Ortega 559-253-2288 [email protected]

IRVINE Scott Zimmer 858-635-4553 [email protected]  

LOS ANGELES Scott Zimmer 858-635-4553 [email protected]  

ONLINE Scott Zimmer 858-635-4553 [email protected]  

SACRAMENTO Scott Zimmer 858-635-4553 [email protected] 

SAN DIEGO Scott Zimmer 858-635-4553 [email protected]  

Uploading Your Dissertation to Proquest

To upload your dissertation, click the button below and you will be taken to Proquest's site, where you will create a new account. Make sure you use the email you check frequently, since all of your correspondence regarding formatting revisions will go to the email address you use to register.

By clicking below, you acknowledge that once the library clearance form has been completed and you have uploaded your dissertation, the dissertation will be cleared and sent to the Registrar within no more than seven business days (assuming no revisions are necessary).

Students must be registered in dissertation (or dissertation extension if they have already completed all regular dissertation sequence courses), during the term in which they achieve dissertation clearance. Dissertation clearance means not only successful defense, but completion of any required revisions and submission of the dissertation in its final form to the University library. Students in dissertation extension should consult the dissertation policy in the catalog for information on how the clearance date impacts tuition and fees for the term/semester. Students with questions about the policy should check with their student advisor. Please refer to the Alliant catalog's section on Dissertations for more information. 

Once you confirm your new account by email, you'll be ready to upload. Below is a brief video which gives an overview of the upload steps.

Note: Alliant's policy (reaffirmed by the Provost's Council November 2015) is to not allow students to embargo their dissertations, because one of the main purposes of a dissertation is to contribute to the global community of scholars. If a student feels there are extraordinary circumstances necessitating an embargo, then the student must request an exception to this policy by contacting the dean who has oversight of the student's program.

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Dissertation Submission Requirements & Procedures

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Need Help with Your Writing?

Students completing their dissertation and graduating from doctoral programs are required to submit the dissertation online to ProQuest ETD. 

No print copy is required nor will the library be binding personal copies., submit your dissertation to proquest etd.

Before you begin, have the following information with you:

• A PDF copy of your dissertation/thesis. This must be a single file. If your manuscript is in Word or RTF format, ProQuest will convert it into a PDF during the upload
• Your abstract
• Optional supplementary files (images, data, etc.) that are an integral part of the dissertation/thesis, but not part of the full text
• A copy of your signature page for the correct spelling of your advisor's and other committee members' names
• 1 - 3 Subject categories that best describe your dissertation/thesis' subject area.
• Widener ID card
• Credit card

Access Widener's ProQuest/UMI ETD site here: http://www.etdadmin.com/widener

Set up an account and follow the steps for uploading a PDF of your dissertation.

Steps in Uploading Your Dissertation/Thesis to ProQuest

• Create an Account

ProQuest Publishing Options & University Agreement

Contact information, dissertation/thesis details.

• Supplemental Files & Notes (optional)

Register US Copyright

• Order Copies (optional)
• Review Your Submission
• Review Order Submission
• Confirm Billing Information & Pay

Creating An Account

Begin at Widener's ProQuest ETD Platform:  http://www.etdadmin.com/widener

1. Click on Login in the upper right corner 2. Select Student from the drop down menu 3. Click on Create New Student Account 4. Fill out the  Form 5. Click on Create Account

• Select Traditional or Open Access Publishing
• Choose if you want your work to be available in ProQuest as soon as it is published [we recommend choosing yes.]
• Click on Save & Continue

• On the next page, read the Publishing Agreement
• Click on Accept

• On the next page, read the University Agreement
• Check the box that you have read and agree to the University Agreement

• Fill in your Contact Information
• Click on Continue

• Enter the details about your dissertation/thesis

• Upload the PDF of your dissertation/Thesis*
• Upload any Copyright permissions you may have**

*If you do not have a PDF, you can upload a word document and it will be converted to a PDF during the upload Process

**If you are using copyrighted material in your dissertation/thesis you need to get permission from the copyright holder to use the material in your dissertation/thesis.  This could be an email, a formal letter, or something else. Upload what you have.  Here is more information of obtaining permission. 

Supplemental Files & Notes

• If supplementary materials - like audio, video and spreadsheets - are part of your dissertation or thesis, you can submit them as supplemental files. If you do not have supplemental files, just click on Save & Continue .
• On the Notes to Administrator, Include any notes you have for the administrator at your graduate school who will be reviewing your submission. If you will be unreachable via email, note the best way to contact you here as well.

ProQuest will file for Copyright on your behalf, if you would like.  Copyright protects your intellectual property from theft. 

• Answer Question #1
• Answer Question #2 [Widener encourages you to choose Yes, file for a new copyright—I am requesting that ProQuest file for copyright on my behalf.]
• Check the box acknowledging the $75 fee

Order Copies

ProQuest gives you the opportunity to purchase bound copies of your dissertation/thesis.  This is entirely optional. 

If you want to purchase copies:

• Specify the number of copies of each format you want
• Click on Continue with Order

If you DO NOT want to purchase Copies:

• Click on Decline - Do Not Order

Pay for Your Order: Review Your Submission

• R eview the details of your submission and make changes if necessary.
• Click on Submit

Pay for Your Order: Review Order Summary

• Review your order details and make any necessary changes
• Click on Confirm Billing Address

Pay for Your Order: Confirm Billing Information

• Enter your billing information into the form
• Click on Enter Credit Card
• You will have the option to print a receipt.  An electronic copy of your order will be emailed to you.

• Enter your credit card information
• Click on Pay

Congratulations!

You did it!  You have successfully submitted your dissertation to the ProQuest/UMI ETD site.  You will be notified by email when the secondary administrator in your department has accepted your submission, when the primary administrator has delivered your submission to ProQuest/UMI , and when your dissertation has been included in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (this can take 8‐12 weeks).

If you have any questions at all, please contact Kayla Van Osten in the library at 610‐499‐4591 or [email protected].

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global   is a wealth of unique global scholarship, which is a credible and quality source to Uncover the Undiscovered research insights and intelligence in easiest and most effective ways. The equitable discoverability of more than 5.8 million dissertations and theses with coverage from year 1637, allows researchers to amplify diverse voices and place their research in a global context. The database offers nearly 3.2 million full texts for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

By leveraging the rich citation data found in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and with new citation insight tool, researchers can benefit from focused pathways of discovery to build foundational knowledge on various research topics. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year to enrich the citation data continuously.

For more information about the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global , navigate to the Content Page .

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global   Database  is also part of ProQuest One Academic .  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global resides on the ProQuest Platform. For more information about the ProQuest Platform search and display features, see the  ProQuest Platform LibGuide .

The Dissertations Bootcamp eLearning Modules are a free resource that help support graduate student planning, writing, and research.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Citation Connections

Here you can have a preview of the new features just launched for the Cited Reference documents in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Librarian

Intended for Librarians who want to learn how to use the database's advanced search to support subject area research at their institution. Duration: 2 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Searching Titles and Languages

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can use the database's advanced search to identify known dissertations by title and search/analyze by languages other than English. Duration: 3 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Searching Names

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or Ph, can use the database's advanced search to identify dissertations of known Authors or Advisors and further refine/analyze them. Duration: 4 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Cited References

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can use the dissertations to retrieve and explore further the Cited References. Duration: 4 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Supplemental Files

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can identify dissertations with Supplemental files which may contain useful materials for their graduate work. Duration: 3.5 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Subject Searching

This session will show Students, both Masters or PhD, some Search techniques both Basic and Advanced to locate dissertations on a certain topic. Duration: 5.5 minutes.

Webinar Title : Best Practices for Searching ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global

This session demonstrates how users can utilize the best practices of searching the " ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global  database" to connect with relevant information for their academic work. Duration:  52 minutes.

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Thesis/Dissertation

To graduate with a master’s (thesis program) or doctoral (dissertation program) degree, students are required to submit an Electronic Thesis/Dissertation (ETD) and a Committee Approval Form to the Graduate School through the  UW ETD Administrator Site . ETDs are distributed by ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing and made available on an open access basis through UW Libraries  ResearchWorks Service .

The Graduate School partners with the UW Libraries to provide comprehensive resources for students as they write, submit, and publish academic theses or dissertations. These pages outline information and policies related to preparing your thesis/dissertation, including formatting, deadlines, copyright and distribution decisions, and, ultimately, graduation. We also encourage you to review the  ETD Library Guide  for additional information.

For comprehensive information on preparing to graduate, please refer to our graduation requirements information page .

Writing Your Thesis or Dissertation

Etd resources.

As a starting point, students submitting an ETD are encouraged to review the below resources:

• Hacking the Academy: UW Theses & Dissertations (Recording of July 29, 2020 event) This session helps students think through their options for how and when to share their work, including the copyright and publishing considerations they may need to take into account.
• Electronic Theses & Dissertations with the UW Libraries The University Libraries welcomes you to this self-guided course on electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at the UW. In this five-part learning experience, you will learn a lot about the ETD process including how the submission process works, how to give and receive recognition for your work, how to find and interpret publisher policies and how to read and inspect publishing contracts.

Formatting Guidelines

After you submit your ETD, the Graduate School will review your document as part of the graduation process at the end of each quarter. We will review for information accuracy, consistency, and to ensure your ETD meets the formatting requirements described below. There are three required sections (pages) that must be included at the beginning of your manuscript: 1) Title Page, 2) Copyright Page, 3) Abstract. Templates for these sections are provided below.

Apart from these first three pages, the Graduate School does not adhere to any specific formatting or publishing requirements unless explicitly stated by the ProQuest Author Guide: Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission (provided below). You should refer to the citation, formatting, and style specifications of your discipline and the guidance of your supervisory committee.  Note: theses and dissertations must be submitted in PDF format.

For a complete overview of the graduation process, please review  Preparing to Graduate .

Required Sections:

• Must include all items listed in the sample title page and placed in the same order
• May be the first or second page of your document
• Title of document
• Author’s Full Name
• Name of degree as it will appear on your diploma
• Year of graduation
• Names of chair/committee members (do not include signatures or professional titles, e.g. Dr. or PhD, before/after faculty names)
• Program authorized to offer degree (school or department)
• Name and year must match title pages
• List the year of graduation
• Place abstract after copyright and title page

Master’s Thesis Approval Form:

You are required to upload a completed and signed Master’s Thesis Approval Form into the UW ETD Administrator (ProQuest) site; the Approval Form is part of your ETD submission. This Approval Form is a separate PDF and should not be included as a page in the thesis or dissertation itself.

• Master’s Thesis Approval Form

Electronic Doctoral Dissertation Approval:

Final Exams scheduled after March 3, 2020 include a link for Reading Committee Members to approve the dissertation online at MyGrad Committee View.

ETD Formatting Resources:

• Thesis/Dissertation Formatting Checklist  – a quick reference guide of the formatting do’s and don’ts provided below.
• ProQuest Dissertation Publishing — Author Guide: Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission
• ProQuest Online Submission FAQs
• Master’s Thesis Title Page – Fillable PDF Template 
• Doctoral Dissertation Title Page – Fillable PDF Template
• Word Templates  – Alex Mamishev, Professor in Electrical Engineering maintains a Word file that other students may find useful when formatting their document.

Common ETD Formatting Revisions Requested

To ensure timely graduating, take some time before you submit to review this information and ProQuest’s document formatting guidelines. These are all common errors and revisions the Graduate School will request when reviewing ETD formatting. You will be required to resubmit if revisions are needed. Be precise, and consistent as you format your document.  Many formatting errors result from following a fellow or former student’s example, so it’s important to review the most current templates and guidelines.

Title Page, Copyright Page, Abstract

Language requirement.

Your document must be written in English ( policy 1.1.4.3 ). If you need to write your document in another language to accommodate the main audience, you must get prior approval to do so by  submitting a petition the dean via MyGrad . If the petition is approved, the required sections (title page, copyright page, abstract) must still be written in English.

Plagiarism is using words, ideas, diagrams, and other content from publicly available work without appropriately acknowledging the sources of these materials. This definition constitutes plagiarism whether it is intentional or unintentional and whether it is the work of another or your own, previously published work.

Plagiarism is a very serious offense that the University of Washington does not tolerate. Evidence of plagiarism may prevent granting of your degree.

Submitting and Publishing

Submitting for dissemination and access.

The Graduate School and the Libraries require that all UW theses and dissertations be submitted electronically for management efficiency, cost control, ease of dissemination, and long-term preservation reasons. In addition, your ETD must eventually be made available openly on the web. Your ETD will be hosted in both UW’s institutional repository,  ResearchWorks , and in  ProQuest’s ETD Database .  Consequently, you will need to indicate your choices in two sections about how your ETD is made available. Most students choose to make their work available immediately, but you can choose to limit access  temporarily  before making it available openly.

Students may restrict access to their theses and dissertations…

• while seeking to publish journal articles or books based on them,
• to protect intellectual property during the patent application process, or
• to prevent the disclosure of sensitive or classified information.

During the submission process, you will select ProQuest and ResearchWorks (Institutional Repository, or IR) publication options. The options are summarized on a table below, followed by selected scenarios to assist you in making your decisions.

IMPORTANT: The metadata describing your ETD, including the citation and abstract, is openly available  immediately— regardless of the embargo or restriction status. This information is searchable by Google, Bing and other search engines, so take care that neither the descriptive information nor the text contain confidential or sensitive information.

Selecting Access Options

Selected etd access scenarios.

The UW Libraries and the Graduate School are committed to the goal of sharing graduate students’ research as soon and as widely as possible, while allowing students to temporarily limit access to their theses and dissertations for such reasons as to support formal publication in journal article or book form or to allow time for filing patents. Below are some examples of how students may wish to use these options to support their publishing or intellectual property-protection goals.

Discussion of Scenarios

• Journal Article Publishing. In recent years graduate students – especially in scientific, medical and technical fields — have increasingly been publishing results of their research in journals.
• The “Research Article” Dissertation. In some disciplines students may be expected to publish 2 or more journal articles during the course of their studies and submit them as the core of their thesis or dissertation — along with an introduction, literature review, and conclusions. Because this has become so common, most journals now permit authors to immediately republish their articles within their theses or dissertations as long as they provide the full article citation and a statement that an article is being “reprinted with permission” of the journal. However, some other journals allow the practice but require that an article not appear on an open access basis before a delay of 6 or 12 months. The Libraries strongly suggests that students become familiar with the policies in place at the journals in which they would like to publish their work, and choose appropriate access restrictions if needed when they submit their ETD’s.
• Book Publishing. Some students in such humanities and social science disciplines as history and political science may hope to publish a revised version of their dissertation as their first book. As they consider that possibility they may be concerned they might undermine their prospects by making their dissertations widely available via ProQuest and/or on an open access basis.Before deciding whether or for how long to limit access to their work based on these concerns, The Libraries recommends students become familiar with the arguments and evidence put forward on these issues. For example, Cirasella and Thistlethwaite 3 and Courtney and Kilcer 4 provide excellent discussions of issues and review recent literature, while William Germano’s classic From Dissertation to Book 5 and Beth Luey’s Revising Your Dissertation 6 offer important insight into what might be involved during the dissertation revision process. While the Libraries recommends that most students hoping to publish their dissertations as books make them widely available while they work toward that goal, they should feel free to consider choosing otherwise, such as “Immediate Access” for ProQuest and limiting to UW for five years – at the end of which students may request additional time.
• Patent Protection Strategies. Students whose theses or dissertations describe work for which patent protection might be appropriate should contact Jesse Kindra at CoMotion ( [email protected] or 206 616-9658) prior to submitting their work to ProQuest and choosing access restrictions. Depending on the circumstances, a student may choose to completely withhold access for one year, but should recognize that doing so will prevent anyone else at the UW from having access to it during the restricted access period. To exercise this option, students should delay releasing their work to ProQuest for 1 or 2 years, and then choose “No access for 1 year, then make Open Access” from the Institutional Repository (IR) Publishing Options menu for the UW copy. In unusual circumstances, requests for access to be withheld an additional year may be considered. To make such a request, students should describe the reason(s) for it in an email to [email protected] prior to expiration of the original embargo period.

1 Marisa L. Ramirez, Joan T. Dalton, Gail McMillan, Max Read and Nancy H. Seamans, “Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities,” College and Research Libraries 74 (July 2013): 368‐80, http://crl.acrl.org/content/74/4/368.full.pdf+html .

2 Marisa Ramirez, Gail McMillan, Joan T. Dalton, Ann Hanlon, Heather S. Smith and Chelsea Kern, “Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Sciences?” College and Research Libraries 75 (November 2014): 808-21, http://crl.acrl.org/content/75/6/808.full.pdf+html .

3 Jill Cirasella and Polly Thistlethwaite, “Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual,” pp. 203-224 in Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Implementation (Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson, eds.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/286/ .

4 Kyle K. Courtney and Emily Kilcer, “From Apprehension to Comprehension: Addressing Anxieties about Open Access to ETD’s,” pp. 225-244 in Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Implementation (Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson, eds.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).

5 William Germano. 2013. From Dissertation to Book, 2d. ed. : University of Chicago Press.

6 Beth Luey (ed.). 2008. Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors. University of California Press.

Publishing Agreements

When you submit your ETD for review and publication, you will be required to read and accept two separate publishing agreements. You will also have to decide whether to publish your work right away or to delay its release. Additional pages within this section will outline all the considerations to keep in mind, when deciding how to make your work available to the scholarly community.

All students writing a thesis or dissertation should review the UW Libraries Copyright Research Guide . Understanding copyright law is another critical aspect as you write your thesis or dissertation.  As you compose your work, ask yourself the following questions:

• Have you referenced others’ work? If so, you either need to get explicit permission from the rights holder or to determine that your use is Fair.
• Have you previously published any part of the work? If you’ve signed your copyright over to your publisher, you will need permission to use your material in your thesis.

Ordering Paper Copies

There are no required fees , although you have the option to register your copyright via ProQuest for a fee. If you want to order bound (paper) copies of your document, you may do so through the UW Copy Centers or through ProQuest. Questions should be directed to the UW Copy Centers or to ProQuest at 1.800.521.0600 ext. 77020 — available 8 a.m.–5 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday (excluding U.S. holidays).

Frequently Asked Questions

I created an account in the etd administrator site, but i’m not ready to submit my etd. can i come back to my account later.

Yes. If you need to finish your submission later (for instance, if you need to update your PDF file before uploading it), you can save your information and come back to finish. No information will be lost.

I submitted my ETD but would like to make an edit to the document. How can I edit my submission?

Once your thesis/dissertation is submitted, no additional changes to the document are allowed with the exception of a major data error in the document. In this circumstance, a letter outlining the necessary changes is required from your supervisory committee chair.

What will the Graduate School be reviewing after I submit my ETD?

Submissions are reviewed by GEMS advisors for formatting requirements for the three required sections — title page, copyright page, abstract — before they are delivered to ProQuest for publication. We are checking for accuracy and consistency. Refer to the Formatting Guidelines section on this page for detailed information.

I submitted my ETD and haven't heard anything yet. When will it be reviewed?

We try to review all ETDs as they are received, but if you submit early in the quarter it may not be acted on immediately. If you need to confirm completion of your degree requirements to an external agency or employer, please access the request for letter of certification in the forms section of our Additional Resources page (once your degree has posted to your UW transcript, we can no longer issue this letter). In general, ETDs are reviewed in the last two to three weeks before the quarter ends and after the last day of the quarter. When your submission has been accepted by a GEMS advisor, you will receive email confirmation.

How can I tell if my ETD was submitted and received by the Graduate School?

When your ETD is successfully submitted and pending review, the status will read “submission in review.”

When will my ETD be made available for access?

This depends on the type of access restrictions you selected when creating your account. However, your submission will be delivered to ProQuest for publishing four to six weeks after graduation and you will receive email confirmation when this has occurred. It should be available in UW ResearchWorks around the same time.

When will the printed dissertation / thesis copies I ordered from ProQuest be ready?

After you receive the email confirmation that UW has “delivered” your submission (ETD) to ProQuest, you should please refer to the ProQuest customer service guidelines for the expected delivery date of your order.

What if I am missing a faculty signature for my thesis or dissertation, or I have encountered difficulties in uploading my ETD? Must I pay the graduate registration waiver fee and graduate in the following quarter?

If you encounter these types of situations, contact Graduate Enrollment Management Services (206.685.2630 or  [email protected] ) as early as possible and no later than the last day of the quarter in which you intend to graduate.

Additional Resources

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Guide  (start here!)
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Open Access
• Scholarly Publishing
• ProQuest/UMI Agreement — Traditional Publishing Agreement
• University Agreement — UW Libraries Thesis and Dissertation Submission Agreement
• UW Human Subjects Division (HSD)
• UW CoMotion

ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index

The ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses, offering over 5.5 million records representing dissertations and theses from thousands of universities around the world.

Extending from they early 1600s to present, PQDT coverage is broadly multidisciplinary and includes foundational research in the life sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities. Within dissertations and theses is a wealth of scholarship, yet it is often overlooked because most go unpublished.

Key Features

The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index will be a standalone database and included in an All Databases search by default. WoS users also have filter options available in each search so that they can search broadly and then narrow focus on a particular collection, subject category, document type, etc. If a user wants to locate dissertations or theses specifically, they can also search of ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index only.

Standalone and aggregated search

PQDT is included in ALL Database search and can also be searched as a unique collection.

Track citation activity in Web of Science Core Collection

Dissertations and theses that have been cited by Web of Science Core Collection records will include a citation count and a link to the citing articles.

Claim dissertation or theses to a Web of Science Researcher Profiles

Researchers can manually claim their dissertation or thesis to their Web of Science Researcher Profile and make it part of the public view of their profile.

Links to Full Text of dissertations and theses on ProQuest platform

Institutions that subscribe to PQDT Global on the ProQuest platform will be able to link directly to their entitled full text.

Note: ProQuest Dissertation and Theses Citation Index will be released to customers in two phases. Phase 1: In July 2023, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Citation Index will go live with metadata records for 5.5+ million dissertations and theses. The records will not include cited reference indexing, which means that functionality such as Related Records and Cited References lists and associated navigation will not display. Phase 2: In late 2023, Linked Cited References lists and Related Records will be released to fully connect dissertations to the Web of Science citation network. If you have any questions regarding PQDT entitlement or functionality, please contact the Web of Science support team .

New ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Citation Connections

• Article Number: 000095300

Citation Connections are the next step in the evolution of the ProQuest Platform, moving functionality beyond standard recommender lists and towards technology that delivers more effective, targeted results that enable you to spend less time searching and more time researching. 

Getting Started 

Start the process by performing a search on ProQuest Dissertations & These Global (PQDT Global) and you normally perform using key terms in the search bar. Since the Citation Connections algorithm uses extracted references, you may want to add “AND ref(1)“  to your search terms to ensure that all returned results include references. From the results page, select the dissertation or theses that you wish to use as the starting document and click on the link to open the Document View. 

Seed Document 

When a dissertation or thesis in PQDT Global is selected, the document displayed on this page is used as the ‘seed’ of a computational framework to identify other sources related to the topic. The seed document is used to surface relevant items in Similar Dissertations and Foundational Research on this topic. 

Similar Dissertations Panel  

At the bottom of the Document View page, the new Similar Dissertations panel is displayed. The Citation Connections algorithms start by building a “neighborhood” of similar documents based on the overlap in their citation lists.  

Each card in the Similar Dissertations panel is a dissertation or thesis that has an overlap in references with the seed document and are they are displayed ranked by the most reference overlap and should be useful to help identify other dissertations that have been written on this topic. Clicking on the title inside a card will take you to that dissertation, with its own set of Similar Dissertations and Foundational Research citations, using that dissertation as the “seed document”. 

Similarity Index 

Inside of each card in the Similar Dissertations panel, you will see a Similarity Index icon. 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. 

In this example, the dissertation, Motor Learning Guided Treatment with Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Cueing & Feedback, has 91%, or 253, references in common with the seed document, Speech Motor Complexity in Childhood Apraxia of Speech, which is the selected dissertation displayed on the Document View Page. 

If a document in Similar Dissertations has every reference in common with the seed document, the Similarity Index for the document would be 100%. 

Shared References  

Inside of each card in the Similar Dissertations panel, you will see a Shared References icon. Shared References is the number of references in common with the seed document displayed on the card.  

In this example this document has 253 references in common with the seed document displayed on the Document View Page. 

Foundational Research Panel 

At the right side of the Document View page the new Foundational Research panel is displayed. Foundational Research is a list of records from a Neighborhood of related sources that cite at least five documents cited by the seed document displayed on this page. Foundational Research records are ranked according to the frequency with which they are cited by documents in the Neighborhood. This collection can be useful when building a foundational understanding of a topic or when selecting a topic for a research project. 

The Citation Connections algorithms start by building a “neighborhood” of related documents that share at least five citations with the “seed document” or the document you are viewing. Then the top 20 most cited documents in this neighborhood are presented in the Foundational Research panel, ranked by their citation frequency with the most cited at the top of the list. The assumption behind Foundational Research is that the more cited references two documents share, the closer the subject relationship, and the most frequently cited sources in a subject area are part of the core knowledge in that topic.  

Foundational Sources can include references to books, journal articles, newspaper articles, and more, and if your library has subscription access, or if a document is open access, the sources in the Foundational Research panel may be linked to the abstract or full text of the source, allowing you to save, download, or export the record, which may be useful when building a foundational understanding of a topic or when selecting a topic for a research project. 

This image shows the title of a source recommended by the algorithms in our Citations Connections. Clicking on the title will take you to more information about document, and may include access to full text. 

Cited By 

Cited By is the number of documents in ProQuest databases that have cited this source. You can find Cited By counts associated with references throughout the ProQuest database, including the Foundational Research panel of Citation Connections. 

A mouse click on a Cited By link will open a list of documents in the ProQuest database that have cited that document. For example, if a document has a Cited By count of 83, this means that it has been cited by 83 other documents in the ProQuest database. 

Tool Tip Descriptions 

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

Not Seeing Results Message 

In some instances, you could see a “Not Seeing Results” message in the Foundational Research panel.   You may see this result if 

Citations are not extracted into the citation network for the seed dissertation or thesis. The algorithms that support Citation Connections require the citations to be integrated into the citation network to provide the list of recommended sources. 

If there are not very many documents available for your topic, that is, if your topic is unique. 

We recommend selecting another dissertation or thesis on the same topic that has full text or starting a new search that expands the topic more broadly.  Refer to the  Support Article for Tips & Tricks for help with your search experience. 

https://support.proquest.com/s/article/New-ProQuest-Dissertations-Theses-Global-Citation-Connections?language=en_US

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