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Search Instructions

Search terms - Enter a word or phrase related to the dissertation. Use "quotation marks" to search for exact phrases.

Author - Enter the author's last name or the author's last name, first name. (Examples: "Smith" or "Smith, Jane")

Title - There's no need to enter the entire title. Usually, the first four or five words will be sufficient to identify the dissertation.

Choosing a Format

You may choose from either unbound, shrink-wrapped print copies or PDF files.

Unbound print copies are delivered within three to five business days. Graduate works published prior to 1997 may take a few extra days to deliver. Delivery time to locations outside of the United States may vary depending on customs.

PDF copies are available within one business day.

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How To Publish Your Dissertation or Thesis Online and/or in Digital Commons@LIU repository

You have three options for publishing your dissertation or thesis online:

• Publish your dissertation  or thesis  in Digital Commons @ LIU - our Institutional Respository
• Publish your dissertation  or thesis  with Proquest /UMI Digital Dissertation Publishing (EDT Administrator)
• Publish your dissertation  or thesis  in BOTH of the above.

Proquest/UMI Digital Dissertation & Thesis Publishing

The library provides access to an online dissertation or thesis  publishing platform through Proquest/UMI Digital Dissertation & Thesis Publishing.  When you publish your dissertation or thesis online using this service it will be available in the Proquest Dissertation & Theses  Global   database and in Dissertations & Theses @ LIU database .  These databases can also be found on our library online databases page.  The links are provided below for your convenience. You may submit your dissertation or thesis once you have permission from your department to do so.

 You can go to the LIU dedicated “ETD Administrator” website at:

http://www.etdadmin.com/liu

On this page you will find links to information about publishing your dissertation or thesis online.  You are encouraged to read all of the provided information under the “Resources and Guidelines” tab so that you have a full understanding of the process and of your rights as an author. 

If you have not already done so you will first need to create an account by clicking on the "Sign up and get started today!" button. Once you have logged in and are ready to publish, you will be asked several questions during the process concerning copyright protection, open access publishing, and if you wish to delay (embargo) the publication of your dissertation or thesis.   The “traditional” publishing option is free of cost.  If you choose additional options you can pay online with a credit card. The online resources provided should answer your questions. 

You will be asked for your "Institutional Student ID" number during the process.  This is not your University login.  Your Institutional Student ID number can be found within your "My LIU" account or by contacting your academic department.

During the process you can also choose to order one or several personal print copies. These would be in addition to the bound copies you may have already ordered through the library if your department requires this. This online publishing service for digital dissertations and the bound dissertations oe thesis service in the library are separate programs. Please contact the Dean's office (516-299-2764) concerning ordering print copies of a dissertation through the library.

Once you submit your dissertation, the ETD Administrator will review your submission for formatting and other quality control issues.  The final submittal to the Proquest Dissertation & Theses Full-text database will take place after your graduation.

You must follow the formatting guidelines as stipulated by your department.   It is particularly important that you follow the correct format on the title page so that your dissertation or thesis can be indexed correctly.  For security reasons, do not include a page containing personal signatures.  Please remove the page or submit a replacement page without the signatures .  Proquest has advised not to include signatures.   If you include signatures in the document, you will need to resubmit and the publication of your dissertation or thesis will be delayed.

The Proquest publishing process can take up to 8 to 12 weeks to complete.  You will receive an email from Proquest when your dissertation or thesis is published in the databases.

If you still have questions concerning this program you can contact the ETD administrator, professor Natalia Tomlin ([email protected]).

In addition to submitting your dissertation or thesis to the ProQuest EDT Administrator, you can also submit your dissertation to the LIU Institutional Repository Digital Commons@LIU.  You do not need to submit your dissertation or thesis to the Digital Commons separately. During the submission process to ProQuest, you will be asked to indicate if you want your work to be in the Digital Commons @LIU repository as well. If you chose so, we will upload your work in the repository on your behalf.

Dear  Student,

We would like to invite you to submit your dissertation or thesis (free of charge) to our Digital Commons @LIU open access Institutional Repository.

Your submission to Digital Commons (should you chose to submit) would be in addition to submitting the dissertation or thesis to ProQuest. The advantage is broader dissemination of your scholarship. PLEASE NOTE that if you already indicated that you wish your work to be submitted into repository during ProQuest submission process, you don't need to do the steps outlined below. H owever, if you did not submit the work to ProQuest, OR you forgot to indicate that you wish your work to be in our repository, please follow the procedure " How to submit your thesis/dissertations to Digital Commons@LIU"

How to submit your thesis/dissertations to Digital Commons@LIU:

•  sign the submission agreement  http://digitalcommons.liu.edu/creative_works_permission.pdf  (electronic signature is fine) and scan it.
• email scanned permission and the copy of your thesis/dissertation to  http://digitalcommons.liu.edu . Please note that your paper can be in either World Document or PDF format. The front page has to be free of signatures.
• The library will upload your dissertation or thesis once/if your agreement is received.

Once your dissertation or thesis is posted:

• Once your work is uploaded, the system will automatically create an account for you in BePress. The account will use email address that you supplied during submission. Bepress is the name of platform that hosts our repository. You can log into the system and create/change your password. To do so, log into the site via "My Account" link (you will need to use email address that your supplied during submission process). Click on the "Edit Profile" option from "My Account" page and update email.
• your dissertation or thesis is periodically featured as a Paper of the Day
• you receive URL “for life’ that you can include in social media sites, digital portfolio, blackboard etc.
• you also receive monthly report if your research is downloaded during specific month period
• you have access to personal author dashboard that shows the location in the world where your work is read and downloaded as well as by what kind of organizations (educational, commercial etc.)
• your work is disseminated world-wide
• potential for increased Google citation statistics 

Proquest Dissertation Databases

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How to find resources by format

Why use a dissertation or a thesis.

A dissertation is the final large research paper, based on original research, for many disciplines to be able to complete a PhD degree. The thesis is the same idea but for a masters degree.

They are often considered scholarly sources since they are closely supervised by a committee, are directed at an academic audience, are extensively researched, follow research methodology, and are cited in other scholarly work. Often the research is newer or answering questions that are more recent, and can help push scholarship in new directions. 

Search for dissertations and theses

Locating dissertations and theses.

The Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global database includes doctoral dissertations and selected masters theses from major universities worldwide.

• Searchable by subject, author, advisor, title, school, date, etc.
• More information about full text access and requesting through Interlibrary Loan

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations provides free online access to a over a million theses and dissertations from all over the world.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses searches library catalogs from across the U.S. and worldwide.

Locating University of Minnesota Dissertations and Theses

Use  Libraries search  and search by title or author and add the word "thesis" in the search box. Write down the library and call number and find it on the shelf. They can be checked out.

Check the  University Digital Conservancy  for online access to dissertations and theses from 2007 to present as well as historic, scanned theses from 1887-1923.

Other Sources for Dissertations and Theses

• Center for Research Libraries
• DART-Europe E-Thesis Portal
• Theses Canada
• Ethos (Great Britain)
• Australasian Digital Theses in Trove
• DiVA (Sweden)
• E-Thesis at the University of Helsinki
• DissOnline (Germany)
• List of libraries worldwide - to search for a thesis when you know the institution and cannot find in the larger collections

University of Minnesota Dissertations and Theses FAQs

What dissertations and theses are available.

With minor exceptions, all doctoral dissertations and all "Plan A" master's theses accepted by the University of Minnesota are available in the University Libraries system. In some cases (see below) only a non-circulating copy in University Archives exists, but for doctoral dissertations from 1940 to date, and for master's theses from 1925 to date, a circulating copy should almost always be available.

"Plan B" papers, accepted in the place of a thesis in many master's degree programs, are not received by the University Libraries and are generally not available. (The only real exceptions are a number of old library school Plan B papers on publishing history, which have been separately cataloged.) In a few cases individual departments may have maintained files of such papers.

In what libraries are U of M dissertations and theses located?

Circulating copies of doctoral dissertations:.

• Use Libraries Search to look for the author or title of the work desired to determine location and call number of a specific dissertation. Circulating copies of U of M doctoral dissertations can be in one of several locations in the library system, depending upon the date and the department for which the dissertation was done. The following are the general rules:
• Dissertations prior to 1940 Circulating copies of U of M dissertations prior to 1940 do not exist (with rare exceptions): for these, only the archival copy (see below) is available. Also, most dissertations prior to 1940 are not cataloged in MNCAT and can only be identified by the departmental listings described below.  
• Dissertations from 1940-1979 Circulating copies of U of M dissertations from 1940 to 1979 will in most cases be held within the Elmer L. Andersen Library, with three major classes of exceptions: dissertations accepted by biological, medical, and related departments are housed in the Health Science Library; science/engineering dissertations from 1970 to date will be located in the Science and Engineering Library (in Walter); and dissertations accepted by agricultural and related departments are available at the Magrath Library or one of the other libraries on the St. Paul campus (the Magrath Library maintains records of locations for such dissertations).  
• Dissertations from 1980-date Circulating copies of U of M dissertations from 1980 to date at present may be located either in Wilson Library (see below) or in storage; consult Libraries Search for location of specific items. Again, exceptions noted above apply here also; dissertations in their respective departments will instead be in Health Science Library or in one of the St. Paul campus libraries.

Circulating copies of master's theses:

• Theses prior to 1925 Circulating copies of U of M master's theses prior to 1925 do not exist (with rare exceptions); for these, only the archival copy (see below) is available.  
• Theses from 1925-1996 Circulating copies of U of M master's theses from 1925 to 1996 may be held in storage; consult Libraries search in specific instances. Once again, there are exceptions and theses in their respective departments will be housed in the Health Science Library or in one of the St. Paul campus libraries.  
• Theses from 1997-date Circulating copies of U of M master's theses from 1997 to date will be located in Wilson Library (see below), except for the same exceptions for Health Science  and St. Paul theses. There is also an exception to the exception: MHA (Masters in Health Administration) theses through 1998 are in the Health Science Library, but those from 1999 on are in Wilson Library.

Archival copies (non-circulating)

Archival (non-circulating) copies of virtually all U of M doctoral dissertations from 1888-1952, and of U of M master's theses from all years up to the present, are maintained by University Archives (located in the Elmer L. Andersen Library). These copies must be consulted on the premises, and it is highly recommended for the present that users make an appointment in advance to ensure that the desired works can be retrieved for them from storage. For dissertations accepted prior to 1940 and for master's theses accepted prior to 1925, University Archives is generally the only option (e.g., there usually will be no circulating copy). Archival copies of U of M doctoral dissertations from 1953 to the present are maintained by Bell and Howell Corporation (formerly University Microfilms Inc.), which produces print or filmed copies from our originals upon request. (There are a very few post-1952 U of M dissertations not available from Bell and Howell; these include such things as music manuscripts and works with color illustrations or extremely large pages that will not photocopy well; in these few cases, our archival copy is retained in University Archives.)

Where is a specific dissertation of thesis located?

To locate a specific dissertation or thesis it is necessary to have its call number. Use Libraries Search for the author or title of the item, just as you would for any other book. Depending on date of acceptance and cataloging, a typical call number for such materials should look something like one of the following:

Dissertations: Plan"A" Theses MnU-D or 378.7M66 MnU-M or 378.7M66 78-342 ODR7617 83-67 OL6156 Libraries Search will also tell the library location (MLAC, Health Science Library, Magrath or another St. Paul campus library, Science and Engineering, Business Reference, Wilson Annex or Wilson Library). Those doctoral dissertations still in Wilson Library (which in all cases should be 1980 or later and will have "MnU-D" numbers) are located in the central section of the third floor. Those master's theses in Wilson (which in all cases will be 1997 or later and will have "MnU-M" numbers) are also located in the central section of the third floor. Both dissertations and theses circulate and can be checked out, like any other books, at the Wilson Circulation desk on the first floor.

How can dissertations and theses accepted by a specific department be located?

Wilson Library contains a series of bound and loose-leaf notebooks, arranged by department and within each department by date, listing dissertations and theses. Information given for each entry includes name of author, title, and date (but not call number, which must be looked up individually). These notebooks are no longer current, but they do cover listings by department from the nineteenth century up to approximately 1992. Many pre-1940 U of M dissertations and pre-1925 U of M master's theses are not cataloged (and exist only as archival copies). Such dissertations can be identified only with these volumes. The books and notebooks are shelved in the general collection under these call numbers: Wilson Ref LD3337 .A5 and Wilson Ref quarto LD3337 .U9x. Major departments of individual degree candidates are also listed under their names in the GRADUATE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT programs of the U of M, available in University Archives and (for recent years) also in Wilson stacks (LD3361 .U55x).

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Dissertation Formatting and Deposit Resources

You will submit a digital copy of your dissertation to ProQuest UMI/ETD. Please refer to your department's  dissertation handbook (links below), resources from ProQuest (links at the bottom of this page), and your department's recommended style manual  for more detailed guidelines.

International Relations Ph.D. Handbook

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Dissertation Deposit

You must submit your dissertation to ProQuest by May 1 for May graduates, August 1 for August graduates, and December 1 for December graduates.

Please note that if you have images in your dissertation that are not in the public domain, you will need to upload permissions documentation along with your dissertation. Please gather these documents (in pdf format) prior to sitting down to submit.

Before you submit you will also need to embed your fonts in Word and convert your dissertation document to an archival format, PDF/A-1b. This process ensures your document will be accessible across operating systems and software through time. If you do not have access to Adobe Acrobat Pro, then the Librarian will need to complete these steps for you. If you have access to the software and would like to convert your document on your own, the instructions are as follows:

1. In Word:

Embedding Fonts

• In Microsoft Word, go to  File > Options .
• In the Options box, select the  Save  option in the left-hand menu.
• At the bottom of the right-hand menu, under “ Preserve fidelity when sharing this document ,” there are two options. Check “ embed fonts in this document .” Make sure the two options below this checkbox  are not checked .
• Save the document.

Save As PDF

• Go to  File > Save As.
• From the  Save As  type drop-down menu, select PDF.

2. In Adobe Acrobat Pro :

• Open the PDF you just created with embedded fonts.
• If you don’t have the Print Production tool menu on the right-hand side, select the  Customize  drop-down menu above it, click  Create New Tool Set , and create a tool set which includes the Print Production tool menu.
• Expand the  PDF/A Compliance  menu.
• Select  Convert to PDF/A-1b .
• Click  Analyze and Fix .

  3. Submitting to ProQuest

• Once you have a PDF in archival format with embedded fonts, you will submit your dissertation through the ProQuest UMI Electronic Theses and Dissertations website. Go to https://etdadmin.com/cgi-bin/home , create an account, and complete the guided submission process.
• Setting an embargo (for doctoral candidates who plan to publish their work through publishers-- please see Proquest's guide to decision making on embargos .)
• Search engine optimization (recommended)
• Setting metadata – what keywords or search terms will allow future researchers to find your work?
• Traditional vs. Open Access publishing – Select Traditional Publishing. Students can publish Open Access for free via the Salve Regina University institutional repository, Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/phd_dissertations/ . ProQuest charges $95 for its service, which it offers for students whose institutions do not have repositories. Publishing in Digital Commons is allowed under ProQuest’s Traditional Publishing agreement.
• Registering for U. S. Copyright - This is not required, as you will own copyright of your dissertation regardless. The decision to register is up to you.
• Ordering personal copies (students do not need to order copies for the library or archives)
• Uploading the dissertation and any supplemental files. The upload limit is 1000 MB; most dissertations are under 10 MB.  ProQuest supports to inclusion of digital files, such as datasets or multimedia. These files will need to be described in your abstract.
• Uploading copyright permissions documents. These must be submitted for any non-public domain materials used in the dissertation that were not created by the dissertation writer. This includes, among many other things, images found on the Internet.

Important reminders

• You must submit your completed signature page to the PhD program before submitting your dissertation. The signature page will  not  be scanned into the digital copy of your dissertation in order to minimize the presence of faculty signatures online.
• You do  not  need to print a hard copy of your dissertation – ProQuest will send the library a bound copy. This will appear on your final invoice but you will not be charged for it.
• ProQuest UMI ETD provides a series of guides on publication and copyright considerations for dissertation publishing. You are encouraged to review these guidelines before submitting your dissertation.
• If media (video, audio, computer programs, and/or significant number of images) needs to be included with the dissertation, please be sure to pay attention to the requirements for supplemental files.
• If the dissertation includes equations, please note that the Microsoft Word Equation Editor should  not  be used. Instead, use italic Times New Roman font and Symbol font along with superscripts and subscripts to create equations. 
• Increasingly, dissertation writers are using images and media in their dissertations. The usual Fair Use guidelines for using other people’s creations (photographs, artwork, infographics, etc.) for educational use do not apply to dissertations because they are published. It is not enough to cite the source of media you did not create.  Students are responsible for obtaining copyright clearance for all non-public domain media used in their dissertations .
• The library will not help revise your dissertation submission once the deadline has passed (May 1st, August 1st, or December 1st, depending). If you notice an error you wish to change in your dissertation after it has been delivered to ProQuest, you must contact ProQuest customer service to change the document. There will be a fee.

Getting started with formatting

1 inch on all sides ( Turabian A.1.1 )

Times New Roman, Size 12 ( Turabian A.1.2 )

Paragraph Spacing

No extra space between paragraphs. Edit this by navigating to  Paragraph > Indents and Spacing > No extra space between Paragraphs

Line spacing

Double-space the text. This is different from paragraph spacing; if there is extra space between paragraphs and the document is double-spaced, after each paragraph there will be far too much blank space. See  Turabian A.1.3  for additional information on block quotes, indentations, etc.

Use subsections and subheadings sparingly.  See  Turabian Guide A.2.2.4  for instructions and examples regarding the use and formatting of these elements. If the subsections and subheadings reflect a complex hierarchy of ideas, then the formatting must reflect that.

Footnote & Page Numbering

Your front matter will be numbered with lowercase Roman numerals (i, ii, iii) and the main text will be numbered in Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3). Additionally, your footnote numbering will start over every chapter. To accomplish this:

• Add a section break at the end of each chapter.
• In each section, go to the References screen on the ribbon, click on the Footnotes option, and under the Numbering drop-down select Restart.
• To keep the page numbering sequential, in each section, double-click into the header or footer, and under Navigation click Link to Previous. (To switch from Roman to Arabic numerals, double-click the header or footer, go to Page Number > Format Page Numbers and adjust the Number Formatting and adjust the Start At number if necessary.)

Figures, Graphs, & Illustrations

The Turabian Guide specifies how to format and number figures, illustrations, and their captions. They are not formatted in the same way. Please follow the instructions. See Turabian Guide Chapter 8; Figures A.12, A.13 (p. 396-397 in 8th  edition).

If you have graphs, diagrams, or complicated figures with multiple elements (such as a diagram with multiple shapes linked together), these will need to be flattened into an image in order to convert them to a PDF/A for digital preservation. Otherwise, in twenty years when someone tries to open a copy of your dissertation, the existing software might not be able to understand and put together the many elements of the figure.

Title Page Format

The text of your cover page will be centered (Ctrl+E in Microsoft Word) and read as follows:

SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY

A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES PROGRAM IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND

[MONTH YEAR]

• Title Page example/template

Order of Elements

Please ensure that the elements in your text appear in the following order:

Front Matter

• Title Page (no page number visible)
• Copyright Page (optional, no page number visible)
• Table of Contents. Tip: Create this by hand at the very end of your dissertation writing process rather than use the automatic generation tools that Word provides. When your dissertation is edited or converted to PDF, the page numbers generated sometimes change to five-digit numbers.
• List of Figures, Tables, or Illustrations (if applicable)
• Preface (if applicable)
• Acknowledgments (optional)
• List of abbreviations (if applicable).
• Glossary (if applicable). You can include this in the back matter instead if desired (see below).
• Editorial or Research Method (if applicable).
• Introduction (if applicable). This section will begin the Arabic numbering of your dissertation.
• Conclusion (if applicable).  

Back Matter

• Illustrations (if applicable; these may also be placed within the text).
• Appendixes (if applicable).
• Glossary (if applicable). You can include this in the front matter instead if desired (see above).
• Endnotes (if applicable).
• Bibliography or references.

Formatting Resources

• Formatting checklist A list of common errors or considerations for the student and mentor to review.

Copyright of Materials Used in Your Dissertation

Increasingly, dissertation writers are using images and media from other sources in their dissertations. Understanding copyright rules is an important competency for scholarly communication in the 21st century. Please note that the usual Fair Use guidelines for using other people’s photographs, artwork, infographics, etc. for educational use – say in a classroom paper or an unpublished PowerPoint presentation – do not apply to dissertations because dissertations are published works.

It is not enough to cite the source of media you did not create; you need to have permission to use anything that is not in the public domain. You are responsible for obtaining copyright clearance for all non-public domain material used in your dissertation. In general, anything created after 1923, including media found on the Internet, is still in copyright. Just because copyright has already been violated elsewhere in the use of an item does not give you permission to violate copyright by putting it in your dissertation; for example, an image may circulate on social media without attribution, but scholarly publications are held to a much higher standard.

If you use materials created by others - for example, images, tables, etc. -- in your dissertation, you will be required to file copyright clearance information with ProQuest which proves you have permission to use those materials.

Copyright of Your Dissertation

As the creator of a work, you automatically own the copyright of your dissertation. Submitting your dissertation to ProQuest does not affect that.

When you publish with ProQuest, you can choose either the Traditional Publishing Agreement or Open Access. The Traditional Publishing Agreement is non-exclusive, which means you can also publish your dissertation elsewhere. Under this agreement, your dissertation will be accessible only to people in the Salve Regina community logged in on the library's website. Users at other institutions will only be able to see your abstract, and can request a copy of the dissertation via interlibrary loan. If they are not affiliated with another institution, they can buy a copy from ProQuest.

Open Access makes your dissertation available to anyone who finds it, whether through ProQuest, a web search, etc. ProQuest charges a $95 fee for this service (subject to change). If you wish to make your dissertation available Open Access, you can do so through Salve Regina's institutional repository, Digital Commons , for free. To do so, select the Traditional Publishing Agreement with ProQuest and then upload your same PDF file here . Your Open Access dissertation will appear in this collection and you will receive reports from Digital Commons about the usage statistics of your work. If you submit your dissertation to Digital Commons for Open Access, you still must submit to ProQuest, and the library recommends Digital Commons submission as the last step. Providing Open Access to your dissertation is not the same as putting it in the public domain, so you are not giving up any of your rights as author, just maximizing your readership.

Through ProQuest, you have the option of asking ProQuest to file for US copyright for your dissertation. There is a fee associated with this, usually $55 (subject to change). You are not required to register for copyright. Regardless of whether you register copyright, you can still publish via the Traditional Publishing Agreement, ProQuest's Open Access, or through Digital Commons.

ProQuest documentation and resources

• ProQuest resources and guidelines These documents provides guidance the submission process. This will help with the "decision points" you will come to during submission.
• Submitting your dissertation to ProQuest Resource explaining digital preservation, metadata, and publishing options.
• ProQuest FAQ

Copyright and fair use resources

• A Graduate Student's Guide to Copyright: Open Access, Fair Use, and Permissions A copyright guide from the University of Michigan.
• Copyright & Fair Use: Charts and Tools A collection of tools from Stanford to help you determine copyright status.
• Copyright overview Basics of copyright handout from the Copyright Education and Consultation Program, Illinois State Library.
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University Library and UMI offer Dissertation Express

Taking a cue from the Old West, albeit doing things a little more quickly, the University Library now offers “Dissertation Express.”

Individuals who need copies of dissertations now can get them in approximately two to three days, for only $15.

In the past, if you wanted a dissertation, you first had to visit a library and find out what library owned the dissertation. Then, if it was available, you’d have to borrow a microfilm copy, which might take several weeks to receive. Or you could contact University Microfilms Inc. (UMI) and purchase a copy, at approximately $35 and up to four weeks for delivery.

Thanks to a joint project of the Library and UMI, dissertations now are scanned on demand and then transformed from microfilm to digital text and printed unbound on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.

“The reproduction quality is excellent, including graphic material, and the response has been phenomenal,” says Wendy Lougee, director of the Digital Library Program. “We’ve done very basic advertising and had several hundred requests. And people are very pleased with the quality.”

Lougee says the next phase of the project will take the process at least one step further—sending digital images over the network to printers located on campus.

“This pilot project offers an attractive model for information delivery, Lougee notes, ‘just-in-time’ from publishers.”

Dissertation searchers also have access to Dissertation Abstracts International via the Internet through the “Ulibrary” gopher to help speed the search process.

Sample copies of digitally printed dissertations are available at the Graduate Library Reference and Information Center, the Interlibrary Loan Office (Room 106, Hatcher Library North) or the Engineering Library Reference Desk.

Express Dissertation orders can be placed at any University Library reference desk, and payment can be made by check (payable to UMI), money order or University account. Those using U-M accounts can place their orders via e-mail to [email protected].

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How to Complete Your Thesis or Dissertation

Style guide and formatting your manuscript ( open this section).

The student and their committee are jointly responsible for seeing to it that the thesis or dissertation follows a correct form of scholarly style and usage. The student can follow the guidelines outlined in the   Style Guide   or may follow the style specified by their committee or department as long as the style is consistent throughout the paper.

Submit your manuscript to your committee several weeks before your defense so they have time to read it. Please review the   Format Checklist   before submitting to your committee.

A list of formatters and editors is available from the School of Graduate Studies if you are looking to hire someone.

Preliminary Approval & Notice of Defense ( Open this section)

Each member of a candidate’s advisory committee must have made their criticisms and have seen and approved the revisions the student has made. Such approval is tentative acceptance of the content, organization, form of expression, style and usage.

• The committee approval shall be executed on the Preliminary Approval and Notice of Defense form and filed in the School of Graduate Studies by the deadline. The signed approval is a commitment that the members of the committee will require no major changes of the content, organization, or style after the final copy has been prepared.
• The Preliminary Approval and Notice of Defense form must be submitted to the School of Graduate Studies two weeks prior to the scheduled oral examination date and on or before the Preliminary Approval deadline.

Please note that it is expected there will be content revisions needed after receiving feedback from you committee. However, it is also expected that the document is ready to defend, meaning that your document is in its final stage of completion.

Hold the Oral Defense ( Open this section)

The candidate and committee members must be physically present at the defense unless the program has developed clear guidelines and instructions by which the candidate or committee members may participate at a distance using real-time synchronous technology. Any technology used to facilitate distance participation by the candidate or committee members must be supported by UND, capable of real-time audio and video, compatible with “presentation” software, such as PowerPoint, and must be open and accessible to the candidate, committee, and public.

The Final Report on Candidate form and Approval page will both be initiated and signed after your successful defense. Both of these forms are available in DocuSign and can be found on the   forms page .

The Approval Page must be included in your final manuscript, but you have the option to include an unsigned copy or the DocuSign signed copy. You will receive a PDF of the completed form to insert into your document if you choose to do so.

Virtual Defenses ( Open this section)

Students may hold their defense in-person, virtually, or hybrid. Technology adds an extra layer to a virtual or hybrid defense and we want you to be successful.

The School of Graduate Studies has approved Master’s and Doctoral defenses to be done virtually via Zoom.

Scheduling Your Zoom Defense

Zoom links can be included on the   Preliminary Approval and Notice of Defense form .

Advisors and student should work with department chairs and graduate program directors to ensure that all parties involved in the defense have access to the technology necessary to conduct defenses in real-time synchronous fashion.

Zoom Defense Tips

• Assign someone on the committee – not the student defending – to setup, manage, and moderate the Zoom call so that the student doesn’t have to manage that extra potential stress. Make sure that the committee provides for extra time and backups in case things go wrong. Set up the connection early (15+ minutes) and ask the committee to show up early to check everything is working. Have one or more backups including something as simple as a phone-based conference call.
• If the defense incorporates a presentation, ask all committee/audience participants to mute themselves at the start or have the committee member managing the call mute them all centrally. It’s easy to forget you aren’t muted and unintentionally interrupt the candidate.
• A Zoom defense will be new territory for many; as such, having committee and audience members using video is especially important – barring bandwidth issues – so that the candidate, to the degree possible, can see audience reactions. This will be especially important during the private portion of the defense, with just the committee members. Audience and committee members should consider exaggerating your positive responses; clear head nods, thumbs up, big smiles, can all help mimic the normal positive audience cues and non-verbal feedback of an in-person defense. Giving a presentation without clear audience response can be really difficult. Of course, if there are bandwidth issues, the committee member managing the call should alert everyone and ask for audience members to stop their video until the issue is resolved. And in the event that the candidate prefers not to see the audience, that can also be accommodated.
• As technology access allows, a candidate can use a 2 monitor setup that will let them see those attending the talk plus their slides and notes. You can show a whole screen of faces – using gallery view – on the second monitor. During Q&A, the ‘hand raise’ function can help prevent voice collisions. The committee moderator can help manage this as well.
• When it comes time for the student to “step out of the room” while committee members deliberate, one option is to have the committee member managing the zoom conversation put the student “on hold”. Committee members might also move into a break out room.
• Recommendations for changes required prior to submitting final paperwork (e.g. final report)
• Recommendations for changes required for the thesis or dissertation prior to ProQuest submission
• Recommendations for further development of the thesis/dissertation post-graduation

Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission ( Open this section)

Submit as a pdf.

The manuscript of your thesis or dissertation must be submitted to ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing in Adobe PDF format. When preparing the PDF, the following must be done:

• Embed all fonts (information on how to embed fonts can be found on the   ProQuest website .)
• Make sure there is no password protection on the PDF.
• Ensure that security settings allow printing.

View Proper Formatting

ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing makes no changes to the formatting and content of submitted manuscripts. Therefore, the burden of how the manuscript looks when it is accessed or printed is entirely the responsibility of the author. ProQuest strongly recommends that individual authors take responsibility for reformatting the document into Adobe PDF, for checking the reformatted document for accuracy, and for submitting the PDF document to the graduate school via the   ProQuest ETD Administrator Site   for publication.

ProQuest does not have a word limit on your abstract, as this constrains your ability to describe your research in a section that is accessible to search engines, and therefore would constrain potential exposure of your work. However, we continue to publish print indexes that include citations and abstracts of all dissertations and theses published by ProQuest/UMI. These print indexes require limits of 350 words for doctoral dissertations and 150 words for master’s theses. Additionally, our print indexes allow only text to be included in the abstract. In the editorial process for these print publications, we will simply truncate your abstract if it exceeds these word limits and remove any non-text content. You may want to limit the length of your abstract if this concerns you. The abstract as you submit it will not be altered in your published manuscript.

Submit Electronic Manuscript ( Open this section)

After you make the required changes or corrections, you will electronically upload the final version of your manuscript in PDF format to the   ProQuest ETD Administrator site at UMI/ProQuest .

Once you electronically submit your final manuscript for publishing, no changes are made to the format or content. Therefore, the burden of how the manuscript looks is entirely the responsibility of the student author.

Steps for Thesis/Dissertation Electronic Submission

When you submit your final PDF to ProQuest/UMI Publishing, it will be logged, indexed, and published. ProQuest/UMI is a private company that has served for many years as the publisher and distributor for most theses and dissertations written in the United States. Please keep in mind that ProQuest acts as a publisher and does not own the copyright to your manuscript. As the author, you retain control of your work’s intellectual content.

Your document will be available after approximately 8 weeks in the ProQuest/UMI database, unless you restricted it. The Chester Fritz Library will receive your bound copy that will be available in the Library periodicals as well as an electronic copy that will be available in the   UND Scholarly Commons .

Publishing Options

Traditional – this choice will meet the needs of most students. There is no fee and this choice allows UMI to reproduce, distribute, and sell copies of your work-0 with royalties paid to you as the author.

Open Access – this optional service makes your work freely available for viewing or downloading by anyone with access to the Internet. The Open Access publishing fee is $95.

Embargo/Hold Information

You have the option of restricting access to your manuscript for up to two years. If you choose to delay access, your work will default to whichever publishing method you have selected at the expiration of the embargo.

Copyright Registration

There is a fee for Copyright registration (an optional service). You automatically own the copyright to your electronic work as soon as it is published without any special requirement of notice or registration. International copyright law provides full protection and establishment of the author’s rights. However, ProQuest offers an additional copyright registration service that registers your copyright, establishes your claim to copyright, and provides certain protections if your copyright is violated. This means that ProQuest will submit your application to the United States Copyright on your behalf and provide you with the certificate from the Library of Congress. The cost to have ProQuest register your copyright with the Library of Congress is $55.

There is no submission fee for submitting your document electronically through ProQuest/UMI. The publishing fee is waived when submitting electronically. The only required charge when submitting your manuscript is $30 for a hard-bound copy to be kept at the Chester Fritz Library. A credit card is required to place this order. You may also choose to order personal bound copies of your manuscript during the submission process for an additional fee.

All costs for the manuscript or optional services is subject to change without notice.

Order copies

You are required to purchase, thru ProQuest, one copy of your thesis/dissertation that will be mailed to the UND Chester Fritz Library. Be aware that they are printed double-sided, so margins may need to be adjusted. 

Additional copies may be ordered through ProQuest or you may order personal copies through a third-party site. The Chester Fritz Library no longer offers binding services.

Survey of Earned Doctorates (Ph.D. Students Only) ( Open this section)

This survey is for Ph.D. Students only, this does not apply to Ed.D. or D.A. students.

• Ph.D. students need to complete the   Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED)   online.
• The School of Graduate Studies, as well as yourself, will receive a confirmation email after you have completed the survey

Past Theses and Dissertations

Previous UND Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations are available for review.

Technical Assistance

For general questions about submitting your thesis/dissertation online, contact Staci Ortiz .

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Access to Ohio State Dissertations and Theses

Ohio State has agreements with two organizations, OhioLINK and ProQuest/UMI , that store and provide access to Ohio State theses and dissertations.

OhioLINK  is Ohio’s state library network and includes a consortium of Ohio colleges and universities. 

ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing  has been collecting and making dissertations available to the public for purchase since 1938, and now manages a database of 90 percent of the dissertations released in the United States. Ohio State has an agreement with ProQuest/UMI to microfilm all approved Ohio State dissertations for archival purposes. This microfilmed archival copy is retained in the Ohio State libraries.

Delay Policy

Graduate students can apply to delay electronic access to their dissertations and theses for one to five years. These requests are reviewed by the Graduate School. If the initial request is granted, additional extensions can be requested up to five years. Graduate students bear the responsibility for requesting extensions. If the Graduate School does not receive a request for an extension,  OhioLINK  will release the document according to the original schedule. 

While a delay is applied to a student's document, the document title and abstract will be publicly available once the student's  OhioLINK  submission is published by the Graduate School.  

A publication delay approved for a doctoral dissertation on OhioLINK means that the document will not be sent to  Proquest/UMI  until the OhioLINK delay expires. If a ProQuest delay is still desired at that time, the student must request it directly through ProQuest. A separate form, the  UMI Publishing Agreement , must be completed and e-mailed directly to UMI/ProQuest to request a delay of publication on the Proquest Dissertation Publishing Database.

Requesting an Access Delay through OhioLINK

Graduate student can request a delay in access when they submit their document PDF to  OhioLI NK  and by submitting the Delay of Final Document form in  GRADFORMS .

• Master's students: Check "Do not upload to UMI" box in the UMI Permissions box (Master’s theses are not archived through UMI.)
• PhD and DMA students: Check "Upload my paper to UMI for traditional publishing."
• Graduate students must also complete and submit the Graduate School’s Delay of Final Document Form via  GRADFORM

The OhioLink and GRADFORMS processes are both required. If a graduate student checks the OhioLINK delay button but does not submit Delay of Final Document form, the dissertation will be released for access.

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