This section provides information specifically for authors who will be submitting—or have published—their dissertation or thesis with ProQuest.

Why publish your dissertation or thesis with ProQuest?

ProQuest Dissertation Publishing provides the only comprehensive service in the world for publishing, archiving and disseminating graduate research. Over the past 75 years, we have published more than 3 million dissertations and theses. Most graduate schools in the United States require their students to publish with ProQuest.

Why? Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are primary literature. They are valuable contributions to the discourse in every field of inquiry. ProQuest ensures that each published graduate work is archived in our vaults, and disseminated based on each individual author's needs — we can sell copies of your work through a variety of mechanisms, make it available on an Open Access basis, or completely restrict access, based on your direction.

Dissemination

• Each dissertation and thesis we have published is listed in our ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database, through which academic researchers around the world can gain access to your published graduate work. It is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world, and is the best method of ensuring that your research gains the widest possible audience. Access to your citation is free, and libraries and researchers can purchase a copy of your graduate work in a variety of formats – print, PDF, or microform.
• ProQuest ensures that your dissertation is placed in the path of researchers in your discipline. ProQuest provides all major subject and discipline indexes, such as MLA, MathSciNet, SciFinder, Sociological Abstracts, ERIC, Institute of Physics (IOP), PsycINFO, etc. with your citation, ensuring visibility in the major index in your field of study.

Recognition

• Publishing your dissertation or thesis with ProQuest provides you with a legitimate citation, including an ISBN, for your curriculum vitae and for other scholars who refer to your work.
• We pay authors a royalty on sales in all formats — digital, print and microform.
• ProQuest's dissertation research tools have been certified as the United States national repository by the Library of Congress, so your research follows in the foot steps of millions of other authors entering the scholarly record.
• ProQuest’s resources have for decades been the primary source used to cite published dissertations and theses.

Preservation

• Each new graduate work is archived in digital form (PDF), and backed up multiple times in different locations, ensuring long term access to your dissertation or thesis.
• Microform copies are stored in separate climate and humidity controlled vaults which meet all Library of Congress qualifications and the exacting ANSI standards.

Contacting ProQuest Dissertation Publishing

If you have any questions that are not answered here or elsewhere on the ProQuest web site, contact our Author and School Relations team directly at 800.521.0600 ext. 77020 or via email at disspub@proquest.com.