Uncover the Undiscovered

Dissertations and theses are a powerful, untapped resource. Often, graduate research remains unpublished in books and journals, leaving these scholarly works and critical insights undiscovered. With over 6 million metadata records including 4 million full text documents, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world leader in providing access to dissertation and thesis research. With records from North America, Europe, Asia, to Africa and beyond, researchers can obtain a global view of the research landscape within a unified, enriched search experience not available anywhere else.

Dissertation references can be a treasure trove for obscure topics, here students discover shorter works like articles.

SCOTT DENNIS, LIBRARIAN CORE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Connecting Global Scholarship

Disseminating since 1939

Disseminating since 1939

Disseminating graduate works since 1939, and is the largest editorially curated repository of dissertations and theses.
6+ million works

6+ million works

A multi-disciplinary collection of over 6 million citations and 4 million full text works.

250,000 Annually

250,000 Annually

The database increases in size by 250,000 works each year.

3,600+ Institutions

3,600+ Institutions

Explore content from more than 3,600 institutional repositories, including 70+ countries and 60+ languages.

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Short Description

ProQuest’s Vast Collection of 6 Million Post Graduate Dissertations and Theses Now Discoverable on Web of Science

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global with the Web of Science™ enables researchers to seamlessly uncover early career, post-graduate research in the form of more than 6 million dissertations and theses citations from over 3,600 institutions from more than 70 countries, alongside journal articles, conference proceedings, research data, books, preprints and patents.

The integration and introduction of the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, eliminates the need for researchers to search multiple databases, allowing them to streamline their workflow and focus more on their academic success and research advancements.

To further enhance accessibility, direct full text linking from the Web of Science to the ProQuest platform is available for joint subscribers of the Web of Science and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

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ProQuest Research Assistant

DISCOVER Unique Scholarship

The average length of a dissertation is 200 pages. With the new ProQuest Research Assistant, novice and expert researchers alike can streamline research, gain deeper insights, and discover the value of graduate scholarship.

    • Key takeaways: Quickly evaluate topic relevancy to work more efficiently
    • Key Concepts: Build deeper understanding within the research workflow

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UNCOVER the Value of Dissertations

The ProQuest Research Assistant in PQDT Global converts dissertations into a resource that is more accessible, giving students access to niche topic coverage and untapped resources.

    • Suggested Research topics: Explore related research topics for course assignments or capstone projects

FOCUS Your Research Path

Citation connections features are a set of research tools unique to dissertations, now incorporated into the ProQuest Research Assistant for PQDT Global.

AI-powered features that make building depth of expertise more efficient:

    • Foundational Research provides an on-demand list of highly co-cited sources in a subject area to build expertise
    • Similar Dissertations provides all levels of researchers with the ability to accelerate the discovery of additional research related to a topic

Testimonials

Avoiding Bias by Starting at the Source

Professor Terri Pigott Ph.D. discusses the expectations she presents to her students on meta-analysis and unbiased research requirements and how the use of ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global helps to ensure that comprehensive data sets are included in new research outputs.

Using Dissertations as a Primary Source

Student researcher and published author Ida Joiner discusses how she uses ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global as a core resource that helps her to build towards her own research goals.


Online Learning Support to Inspire and Guide

ProQuest has developed on-demand instructional resources for students to use in a virtual learning environment. eLearning Companions are available to support the graduate student during their research and writing process as well as the undergraduate student who is developing their information literacy skills.

Success Story

Improving Diversity in Curriculum by Uncovering Unheard Voices

Improving Diversity in Curriculum by Uncovering Unheard Voices

Psychology Professors and Research Scientists come together to build a course and write a supplemental text for Psychology curriculum emphasizing the dissertations by women of color prior to 1980, filling research gaps in the early history of psychology.

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Trends in the Evolution of Research and Doctoral Education

Trends in the Evolution of Research and Doctoral Education

Bruce A. Weinberg, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Public Affairs from The Ohio State University shares how text and data mining of ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global allows researchers to understand doctoral career trajectory patterns.

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