ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Overview SW/McLean and Coles… · • The number of new...
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Austin McLean and Marlene Coles CGS Summer Workshop, July 2017 ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Overview
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Overview SW/McLean and Coles… · • The number of new dissertations and theses published annually is over 200,000 • Not just PhDs – Thousands
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ProQuest believe in the importance of the dissertation as a form of scholarly communication
PQDT Global: Graduate Works (in millions)
4.0M total citations (A&I)
2.0M available in PQDT Global in Full
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more than 3,100 graduate schools and universities globally
A Tried & Trusted Solution for Dissertations Discovery
• Most top-ranked research universities – as defined by the Carnegie Foundation – publish with ProQuest
• Includes works by authors from more than 3,100 graduate schools and universities the world over
• The number of new dissertations and theses published annually is over 200,000
• Not just PhDs – Thousands of Master’s Degrees are included each year
• More than 3,000 libraries around the world have access to the ProQuest Dissertation and Theses database (PQDT)
• Including 80% of the world’s top universities
Database Users
ProQuest Editorial creates more discoverable content
Author Submission to
ProQuest Editor Checks
Metadata Discovery
enhancements Metadata & PDF
ingested & searchable
Author Submission to ProQuest Dissertation/thesis author supplies abstract and keywords
Quality Check Editorial team of subject matter experts reviews metadata and quality of each submission
Discovery enhancements Editorial team supplements the submission with additional keywords and subject terms from ProQuest’s controlled vocabulary for maximum exposure
Ingest Dissertation/thesis is ingested into the PQDT database and is fully searchable!
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ProQuest employs a full-time editorial team of subject matter experts that manage intake of dissertations content, verifying that metadata supplied by authors adheres to our strict quality standards and increasing searchability and discoverability by adding appropriate subject terms from ProQuest’s controlled vocabulary. The team reviews every author-supplied abstract and supplements author keywords with additional terms that aid in exposing their work to the widest possible audience.
ProQuest is a non-exclusive publisher
Authors / universities retain their copyright
ProQuest pays a 10% royalty to authors on all sales (PDF, hard and soft bound, microfilm)
Free – no fee for author or university
Why Distribute with ProQuest?
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For body copy: Main copy points, use 24 point Arial Bullet points, use 18 point Arial For bullet points with longer copy, can go to 16 point Arial. Also consider breaking into two slides for easier reading.
ProQuest provides thesis citations to all major subject indexes, expanding the reach of your university’s research. Subject indexes include SciFinder, Inspec, Compendex, PsycINFO, ERIC, MathSciNet, ABI/INFORM, Wilson Art Index, Institute of Physics, etc. (full list here: http://media2.proquest.com/documents/ThirdPartyIndexingPartnersSubjectalpha.pdf)
Why Distribute with ProQuest?
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For body copy: Main copy points, use 24 point Arial Bullet points, use 18 point Arial For bullet points with longer copy, can go to 16 point Arial. Also consider breaking into two slides for easier reading.
ProQuest can distribute dissertations and theses in all formats including:
Audio
Video
Datasets
Operating systems
…and more!
Technology Leadership
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The System
Electronic Submission
• The ProQuest ETD Administrator is a no-fee web based submission and management system.
• Each ETD Administrator site is customized specifically for the university
• Populates your Institutional Repository
• Over 700 universities use the ETD Administrator to submit dissertations and theses to ProQuest
Key Advantages of the System
• Easy for administrators / universities
• The system keeps track of all actions
• Great for libraries
• University Deposit Agreement • Constant development of enhancements
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Historical Usage Trends (2014 focus)
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Home page for the Dissertations Dashboard showing overviews of each dashboard All of the pages of the Tool contain: -Dashboard button which brings you back to the page we are currently viewing. -A list/or a button for all of the currently available reports –in this case the 6 we are viewing -A “print” button. - Under Proquest Support or the name of the person logged in are some additional features: ---My University Groups ---Account Details –change you password ---Manager Users---provide access to other people ---Go to ProQuest ---a link that takes you to our content platform ---Logout You can access any report by clicking on the report itself or clicking on the report button on the left hand side of the page
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Historical usage trends – month by month trends 2013-2014. Filterable by date and Subject This Report provides an “export” button which allows you to download a report into Excel There are 4 filters on this page Date filter– allowing you to look at usage for specific years. Another Date filter that allows you to look a usage of dissertations published for in specific time frame Format filter: Offers the options of Full-text usage, PDF preview or citation/abstract usage Subject Filter: covers some 475 subjects - You can select multiple subject areas
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The most commonly retrieved subjects for dissertations from your university This report has an additional filter: It allows you display not only the top 10, but 30 and 50 subject categories.
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The most Popular dissertations will vary by time period as might be expected. And the publishing year filter and/or if a subject filter is applied.
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Top 10 users of your university’s ETDs
Short Form Video Pilot
ProQuest is undertaking a pilot project in 2017 that would include the following related to short form videos which summarize dissertation/thesis research:
1) Build an open access web portal to collect and display short form videos (including, but not limited to, 3MTs) from universities around the world
2) Transcribe the short form videos and provide videos + transcription to universities for local use
3) Facilitate discovery and access of short form videos via search engines
Short Form Video Pilot
Similar to the rights that ProQuest obtains for master’s and PhD theses, ProQuest would seek:
1) Non-exclusive rights to include short form videos in ProQuest’s open access short form thesis video database
2) Author or university would retain copyright
3) Provide rights to universities to use ProQuest-created video transcripts for local use at no fee
Rights and ProQuest Pilot
Short Form Videos
A new form of scholarly activity. Adopted around the world.
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