After you submit your manuscript, it must be approved by your graduate school before the site administrator sends it to ProQuest Dissertation Publishing. Once we receive the manuscript from your school, it can take 8-12 weeks before it is available online.
If you would like to inquire about the status of your submission after it has been approved and sent by the graduate school, you may contact our Author and School Relations group at disspub@proquest.com or 800-521-0600 x77020. Please include your manuscript ID with your query; the ID was included in the confirmation email sent to you by the ETD Administrator.
If the author selects the Traditional publishing option, yes, the author is eligible for royalties for sales in all formats—print, microfilm and electronic. If the author selects the Open Access Publishing PLUS option, however, the author is not eligible for royalties, as we make the full text available online for free access. Please see the Author Agreement Form for more details.
As the author, you retain sole and complete ownership over your dissertation or thesis.
No, submission to ProQuest Dissertation Publishing is done on a non-exclusive basis.
Once the files have been sent by the Graduate School to ProQuest Dissertation Publishing, questions regarding changes can be directed to the Author and School Relations group at disspub@proquest.com or 800-521-0600 x77020.
Please see the PDF Questions Tab of this FAQ for help.
Go to ProQuest's website to learn more about PQDT, the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world.
Yes, as long as they conform to the requirements of your Graduate School. Contact your Graduate School to get the appropriate forms for paper-based submissions.
If you have already completed the submission process and you have received a confirmation email that publication of your work is complete, you may place an order for copies directly through ProQuest. To place your order online via ProQuest and receive an author discount, refer to the "Order Copies" button on your submission details page.
If you are experiencing difficulty with the order button, contact our Customer Service Department
For assistance using ETD Administrator, please contact Dissertations Support. If you have trouble formatting your Microsoft Word document, please review the FAQs on this page to see if a solution to your problem has been included here. Your school's computer or writing centers can often help. For specific questions about using Microsoft Word, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
To revise a submission:
Your thesis/dissertation must be submitted as a single file.
To make one PDF file from multiple files:
See Adobe's Acrobat Help documentation for more details.
Your manuscript must be submitted as one file. So, to create different formats of page numbers or to restart page numbering in the document you'll need to divide your document into "sections", then change the page number format for each section. (Note that specific steps will vary for different versions of Microsoft Word.)
From Microsoft Word's Knowledge Base: If a page of your document is formatted with landscape orientation, the header and footer of the page are also are formatted with landscape orientation. This article describes how to use rotated text in a text box or table to add a page number in portrait orientation to the header or footer layer of a landscape-oriented page.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211930.
To do this using ETD Administrator, please upload a PDF containing the title of your graduate work and any other relevant written material in the "PDF" section of the site. In the "Supplemental Files" section, please upload the non-PDF component of your graduate work. (You may upload multiple files as needed in the "Supplemental Files" section).
The Supplementary Files step of the submission process lets you upload supporting files like sound clips and data sets. These files will be submitted to ProQuest Dissertation Publishing along with the PDF version of your dissertation/thesis. You will be able to upload multiple files, and we ask that you include a description of each file (or set of files, if more appropriate) in your abstract.
If you are having issues uploading your supplementary files due to a slow connection or other impediment.: deliver them on a CD, DVD or USB jump drive to your graduate school administrators for approval.
Note: the instructions will vary depending on whether the file is your dissertation/thesis or a supplemental file.
For all files:
On your CD, DVD or USB jump drive include the following:
In the ETD Administrator, go to Notes and enter a message to your graduate school administrators, explaining that a file is being submitted separately because of issues uploading it.
For very large dissertation/thesis PDF files:
For very large supplemental files:
For administrators:
When the student's ETD submission has been approved and delivered to ProQuest for publishing, please mail the CD, DVD or USB jump drive to the following address, along with a printout of the information file that includes the student's name, school, dissertation/thesis title and submission ID to:
Attn: Lewis Kreutzer ProQuest Dissertation Publishing
ProQuest
789 E. Eisenhower Parkway
P.O. Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346
Authors should submit individually to ensure all parties receive acknowledgment for their work. ProQuest does not accept multiple author submissions.
Deliver them on a CD, DVD or USB jump drive to your graduate school administrators for approval.
Note: the instructions will vary depending on whether the file is your dissertation/thesis or a supplemental file.
For all files:
On your CD, DVD or USB jump drive include the following:
In the ETD Administrator, go to Notes and enter a message to your graduate school administrators, explaining that the file(s) that could not be uploaded are being submitted separately.
For very large dissertation/thesis PDF files:
For very large supplemental files:
For administrators:
When the student's ETD submission has been approved and delivered to ProQuest for publishing, please mail the CD, DVD or USB jump drive to the following address, along with a printout of the information file that includes the student's name, school, dissertation/thesis title and submission ID to:
Attn: Lewis Kreutzer ProQuest Dissertation Publishing
ProQuest
789 E. Eisenhower Parkway
P.O. Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346
When I copy and paste abstracts into the Submit form, some text is missing, quotes look odd, or strange characters appear in the abstract. What's going on?
When copying abstracts from a word processing file or a PDF file, and pasting the text into the submission form, you are taking text from an environment that may support fonts, and special characters like symbols or "smart quotes". Please read through any abstract that you copy and paste from a word processing file or PDF file. Look for how single and double quotes appear, usage of special symbols, and incorrect conversion of glyphs from PDF files (e.g. "ff", "fl", or "fi" might disappear causing a word like "difficult" to change to "di cult").
Yes, the DTD can be accessed here: http://www.etdadmin.com/dtds/etd.dtd
Many tools are available to create PDF files. For example:
The following sites provide additional resources:
Postscript to PDF:
TeX/LaTeX to PDF:
You simply write your document as you normally would in your word processor, keeping a few tips in mind to improve the quality of the PDF document:
Though each version of the PDF creation software will differ slightly in how you create the file, you should always choose the following options:
Other important tips for creating the best PDF files:
When fonts are embedded, readers of your work will be able to see your document as you intended, with the same fonts that you used.
If you do not embed all of your fonts, and those fonts are not available on the reader's computer, Adobe Acrobat will make its best guess at what font it should use as a substitute. This can result in significant differences between your original document and what the reader sees (particularly with symbol fonts).
How do I embed my fonts?These instructions differ depending on whether you are using a PC or a Mac
Please note that previous versions on Microsoft Word on a Mac are not able to embed fonts.
Another option you might consider is using OpenOffice (which embeds fonts automatically while converting to PDF) or using a PC to embed fonts in your manuscript.
Alternatively, if you have Adobe Acrobat Professional available to you, you can follow the excellent instructions provided by the Graduate Thesis Office at Iowa State University:
Creating a PDF file from a word processing document is fairly straightforward. Once you have installed the software necessary to write PDF files (for example, Adobe Acrobat Distiller), you can essentially print to a PDF file instead of printing to paper.
If your submission consists of multiple documents (such as a word processing file, graphics, spreadsheets, etc.), it is best to consolidate them first in one document and then print that file as a PDF document. If you aren't able to consolidate the files before creating the PDF file, it is possible to combine PDF files using the commands in Adobe Acrobat.
Please do your best to follow these guidelines when creating PDF files to be submitted to ProQuest, and check your results.
To check your file:
If you encounter problems while checking your file, please consult the following resource:
If you are having trouble printing a PDF file, first be sure that you have the appropriate software (Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader). Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for free from Adobe. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
If you can view the manuscript correctly on screen but it fails to print correctly, you should do the following:
Visit adobe.com to learn more about troubleshooting PDF printing problems.
Depending on the version of Adobe Acrobat you are using, open the document and do one of the following: