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These American universities preferring ETD access from open access repositories are all heavy-hitters in terms of research, with institutional status noted in terms of Carnegie Classification; rank in graduate program size (according to Survey of Earned Doctorate) and membership in the Association of American Universities.
*This list continues to grow — please feel free to add a comment to let us know of any schools we’ve missed!*
1. Boise State University
The Graduate College no longer sends copies of the dissertation to ProQuest. If you’d like to submit your dissertation to ProQuest, contact ProQuest directly
(http://www.proquest.com/enUS/ products/brands/pl_umidp.shtml).
2. Brown University
Where are Brown’s ETDs available? Brown ETDs will be available in the Brown Digital Repository (BDR). A permanent URL will be available for use in your
resume. Dissertations of candidates who elect to enter into an individual publication agreement with ProQuest will also be available in the commercial ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text database.
3. Florida International University
On the Final ETD Approval form, Doctoral students can opt to let UGS submit their dissertation to ProQuest.
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
Silent on ProQuest/UMI submission
5. Louisiana State University
Silent on ProQuest/UMI submission
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Doctoral Dissertation, PUBLISH ABSTRACT ONLY
7. Miami University
The Graduate School at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) does not require ProQuest.
It is completely optional, and we have now moved to asking the students to get in
touch with ProQuest themselves if they wish to be included in their database or use
any of their services. Our students are required to upload their work to OhioLINK. —
Posting to FUSE, May 13, 2013 (see comments at the bottom of this page)
8. Stanford University
Silent on ProQuest/UMI submission
9. University of Central Florida
Are UCF students still allowed to submit to ProQuest?: Definitely. The University is
simply dropping the mandatory requirement but in no way is hindering or
prohibiting the students’ rights to have their works available in UMI/ProQuest or
any other fee based or free service. The student holds the copyright to their work and
can choose additional methods for publishing and archiving their thesis or
dissertation at their own discretion and expense.
10. University of Georgia
Dissertation Abstracts (UMI): Doctoral students may elect to submit the abstract of
their dissertation or the entire dissertation to Dissertation Abstracts for processing
and distribution. Students should discuss this option with their major professor prior
to making a decision to utilize this service. Students choosing this option may access
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the Proquest (UMI) website for more information or to obtain the appropriate
agreement form. The Graduate School is no longer involved in this process.
11. University of Michigan
Am I required to submit my dissertation to ProQuest? Beginning with the 201213
academic year, the Graduate School strongly encourages all doctoral students to
submit their dissertations to ProQuest, but does not require it.
12. University of North Florida
Silent on ProQuest/UMI submission
13. University of Tennessee at Knoxville
The Graduate School has dropped the requirement for dissertations to be submitted
to Proquest for digital distribution since dissertations are available widely through
the University of Tennessee Library and through the National Digital Library of
Theses and Dissertations.
14. University of Texas at Austin
When uploading your dissertation to the Texas Digital Library submission site, you
may choose to have a copy of your approved dissertation sent to UMI for
supplemental publication, preparation of bound copies, and registration of
copyright….Students are provided with open access publication through Texas
Digital Library free of charge. When optional UMI services are selected, the
associated fees will be billed through UT Austin: UMI Traditional Publishing – $25;
UMI Open Access Publishing – $120; UMI Registration of Copyright, $55.
15. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“Special Procedures and Fees for Dissertations: WPI no longer requires that Ph.D.
Dissertations be microfilmed by University Microfilms, Inc. (UMI).”
16. Johns Hopkins University
The Ph.D. Board policy document states that “ProQuest participation will be optional
for JHU students. For some students, ProQuest adds value, so those students should
be free to participate. But for other students, ProQuest represents an obstacle that
should be removed.”
17. Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation Checklist for Electronic Submission gives student option to select or
decline submission to ProQuest. /blockquote>
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6 THOUGHTS ON “ETDS FREED HERE (U.S. INSTITUTIONS RESPECTING STUDENT CHOICE IN DISSEMINATING
THEIR ETDS)”
Rebel CummingsSauls
on January 8, 2013 at 11:30 am said:
Here at USF Tampa Bay we were also interested in who had gone ProQuestoptional
or Noquest.
During a one hour research dive in August 2012 I was able to
discover:
University of Pittsburghpublished
by the University of Pittsburgh, ProQuest
(formerly UMI/Bell & Howell), or both
http://www.pitt.edu/~graduate/etd/instructions.html
University of KentuckySelf
Publish + ProQuest
http://www.gradschool.uky.edu/CurrentStudents/theses_prep.html
University of Memphis: Self Publish beginning with the Fall 2010 semester
http://www.memphis.edu/gradschool/tdinfo.php
Auburn University: Self Publish + ProQuest
http://www.grad.auburn.edu/etd_guide.html
Virginia Tech: ETDs by Virginia Tech and ProQuest(Doctoral Students Required/
Theses Optional)
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
UK: University of Edinburgh
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schoolsdepartments/
academicservices/
students/postgraduateresearch/
thesissubmission
***I apologize if I have misrepresented anyone here.
I would like to hear feedback from those who used ProQuest and are now ProQuest
optional or NoQuest:
Did you receive any backlash from your university, administration, librarians,
students, or faculty?
Did you receive any backlash from ProQuest?
Since your change in policy have you had success with the submission process?
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Retrieval?
Anyone concerned with the lack of microfiche/film or preservation?
Any concerns or advice for universities contemplating this change?
Thank you in advance.
gclement
on January 8, 2013 at 6:04 pm said:
Hi Rebel! Thanks for this information. From my review of these institutions’
websites, I was not able to confirm that they had dropped a prior ProQuest
requirement for dissertations. If you know otherwise and can supply the urls
to the specific documentation of such, it would be greatly appreciated! — gc
Rebel CummingsSauls
on January 30, 2013 at 12:04 pm said:
HeyLooking
quickly I found:
University of Pittsburgh:
(still have not completely moved away from ProQuest)
http://dscholarship.
pitt.edu/faq.html
***Can I submit my electronic thesis or dissertation to DScholarship@
Pitt?
Yes. All current Pitt students who are required to submit an
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) to fulfill the requirements of
their degree programs must submit their ETDs to DScholarship@
Pitt. See the main ETD Web site for more information.
All University of Pittsburgh ETDs will be automatically deposited into
DScholarship@
Pitt immediately upon approval by your school.
University of Kentucky:
(still have not completely moved away from ProQuest)
***UK electronic theses and dissertations are available as a standalone
database at this URL: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool/.
(UKnowledge is approx. 2 years w/ ETD’s from 2000til)
University of Memphis:
http://www.memphis.edu/history/dissertations.htm
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***Beginning with the Fall 2010 semester, dissertations at The
University of Memphis must be submitted to the Electronic Thesis
and Dissertation Repository (ETD).
Auburn University:
(still have not completely moved away from ProQuest)
http://etd.auburn.edu/etd/
***The database contains a PDF version of every thesis or
dissertation successfully defended at Auburn since the Fall 2005
semester.
Virginia Tech:
(still have not completely moved away from ProQuest)
http://etd.vt.edu/etdfaq.html#faq4
***How does UMI/ProQuest get VT ETDs?
When an electronic dissertation is approved by the Graduate School
and it becomes publicly available, an email is automatically
generated notifying UMI/ProQuest. The ETD author must have also
submitted the UMI/ProQuest form(s) and paid the appropriate fees.
In addition, I found…
Oregon State:
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/grad_school/thesis_faq.php
***How will electronic theses and dissertations be archived and
maintained over time?
Dissertations (whether submitted in electronic or hardcopy
format)
will continue to be archived and maintained in electronic and
microfilm format by ProQuest (formerly known as UMI/Bell & Howell).
In addition, both theses and dissertations submitted in electronic
format will be archived and maintained on a University Libraries
server. The University Libraries are committed to regular updating of
archived electronic documents to ensure they continue to be
accessible to future technologies and use an open architecture for
file types and structures so that they can be more easily migrated to
future file types.
Many of these universities I list here have dual submissions, which I
hope is just a prestep
to ProQuest optional or no quest.
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Kevin Hawkins
on January 8, 2013 at 7:44 pm said:
If you have URLs documenting the decision for the original list of nine as well, it
would be great to include those as links from each institution name.
Thomas Dowling
on January 28, 2013 at 7:09 pm said:
As more schools get out of PQ, it will be vitally important that they keep their ETD
metadata plugged into larger efforts. “Those records are in our catalog” won’t be
enough. We need to play nicely with OAIPMH
harvesting projects and (dare I say
it?) Google and Google Scholar.
Lou Haines
on May 13, 2013 at 11:40 am said:
Hi Gail,
The Graduate School at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) does not require ProQuest.
It is completely optional, and we have now moved to asking the students to get in
touch with ProQuest themselves if they wish to be included in their database or use
any of their services. Our students are required to upload their work to OhioLINK.