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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global indexes dissertations and masters' theses from most North American graduate schools as well as some European universities.

It provides full text for most indexed dissertations from 1990 to present.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the largest editorially curated repository of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses in the world. It includes millions of full-text dissertations, the majority of which were published after 1997, but hundreds of thousands of titles published before 1997 are also available. In addition to the full-text content, citations for over 5 million dissertations and theses are included. Content comes from thousands of universities located in 100+ countries. The database increases in size by 200,000+ works each year, and is designated as the official dissertation repository by the United States Library of Congress.

E-learning modules, webinar recordings, and additional resources are available at the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Libguide .

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Link to proquest platform libguide, new citation connections, look up lists, document view: supplemental files, order a copy and references.

In this page we will show the unique search features for ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  . Go to the Platform LibGuide for a complete guide to ProQuest's search and display features.

ProQuest brings more focus to the search process by combining its unique dissertation citation database with knowledge graph technology, delivering only highly relevant, impactful sources, including newspapers, journal articles, dissertations, and more. The new Citation Connections, a dynamic network discovery tool which transform each dissertation or theses into a catalyst for topic-related source collection for all types of users.

Foundational Research

Foundational Research panel displays all those records who shares at least five similar references with the seed document. These foundational research documents are available with number of citations which may be journal articles, newspapers, books, dissertations, video etc. Foundational Research records are ranked according to the frequency with which they are cited by documents in the Neighborhood. These documents are available in ProQuest databases that have cited this source.

The idea behind the Foundational Research papers is to connect the students and research scholars with those highly cited research documents which have related themes and ideas with the seed document. This collection of Foundational Research documents can be useful when building a foundational understanding of a topic or when selecting a topic for a research project.

Dissertation citations

Dissertation citations are extracted, cross-linked, and searchable, offering users a “ready-made” list of sources on a topic through Reference links, Cited by links, and Shared References links. Researchers can quickly build a credible source list targeted to their specific topic.

Similar Dissertations 

Similar Dissertations is a collection of dissertations with research closely aligned with the seed document displayed on the page, which can be useful to identify other dissertations that have been written on this topic. 

Similarity Index 

The similarity index is used to rank the collection of Similar Dissertations by the degree of relationship to the topic of the seed document displayed on the page. The closer the score is to 100%, the more likely this dissertation is about the same topic .  

Shared References

Shared References is the number of references in common with the seed document displayed on the page. The more references in common, the more likely the overlap in the topic of research. 

Click on any “i” icon to view the description of a feature for more information. 

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses  offers five   Look ups or browsable indexes, so you can easily find spelling or format variations of, for example, an author's name or a subject name. You can find the Look up links in the advanced search page and they are available for the following searchable fields: Author, Advisor, Subject name, Index term and School name. For a description of these fields, please see the Searchable fields table to the right. 

Note: Look ups are also available from the Command Line search (through the Look up terms link). 

To use and locate a Look up or browsable index, select the field from the Advanced Search pull-down menu. If a Look up is available, under the search row you will see a link to the Look up. Other Look ups and browsable indexes will be listed in the Limit To section of the Advanced Search page.

Each Look-up provides a search and browse function and the ability to add multiple terms separated by Boolean Operators similar to the thesaurus.

Some of the Look up links will be listed in the lower section of the advanced search page.

In Advanced Search, you can find 2 boxes with advanced limiters:  Manuscript types  provides a controlled list highly specific to this database, and  Language features  allows to select dissertation/thesis with  several types of  languages.

In your results page, you might see links to supplemental files, order a copy and references, if available.

Supplemental files are included if part of the documentation that had been submitted with the dissertations/theses text to enhance the scholarly record. You can download the supplemental files as required:

You can use the order a copy tab to purchase any dissertation/thesis.

You can dive deeper into the relevant literature by reviewing references within each dissertation on your topic. Examining the resources that other authors rely upon may reveal a very useful resource that hadn’t turned up in your own search .

If one of the References is available to your library through another ProQuest database, you will be able to click on the reference to view the full record.

On results page, you can also get an unique option to filter the documents based on university/institution and university/institution location.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global offers browsing (in addition to searching) as a way of finding content. Use this page to easily locate dissertations/theses based on subject and location.

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New ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Citation Connections

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Citation Connections are the next step in the evolution of the ProQuest Platform, moving functionality beyond standard recommender lists and towards technology that delivers more effective, targeted results that enable you to spend less time searching and more time researching. 

Getting Started 

Start the process by performing a search on ProQuest Dissertations & These Global (PQDT Global) and you normally perform using key terms in the search bar. Since the Citation Connections algorithm uses extracted references, you may want to add “AND ref(1)“  to your search terms to ensure that all returned results include references. From the results page, select the dissertation or theses that you wish to use as the starting document and click on the link to open the Document View. 

Seed Document 

When a dissertation or thesis in PQDT Global is selected, the document displayed on this page is used as the ‘seed’ of a computational framework to identify other sources related to the topic. The seed document is used to surface relevant items in Similar Dissertations and Foundational Research on this topic. 

Similar Dissertations Panel  

At the bottom of the Document View page, the new Similar Dissertations panel is displayed. The Citation Connections algorithms start by building a “neighborhood” of similar documents based on the overlap in their citation lists.  

Each card in the Similar Dissertations panel is a dissertation or thesis that has an overlap in references with the seed document and are they are displayed ranked by the most reference overlap and should be useful to help identify other dissertations that have been written on this topic. Clicking on the title inside a card will take you to that dissertation, with its own set of Similar Dissertations and Foundational Research citations, using that dissertation as the “seed document”. 

Similarity Index 

Inside of each card in the Similar Dissertations panel, you will see a Similarity Index icon. The Similarity Index is used to rank the collection of Similar Dissertations by the degree of relationship to the topic of the seed document displayed on the page. The closer the score is to 100%, the more likely this dissertation is about the same topic. 

In this example, the dissertation, Motor Learning Guided Treatment with Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Cueing & Feedback, has 91%, or 253, references in common with the seed document, Speech Motor Complexity in Childhood Apraxia of Speech, which is the selected dissertation displayed on the Document View Page. 

If a document in Similar Dissertations has every reference in common with the seed document, the Similarity Index for the document would be 100%. 

Shared References  

Inside of each card in the Similar Dissertations panel, you will see a Shared References icon. Shared References is the number of references in common with the seed document displayed on the card.  

In this example this document has 253 references in common with the seed document displayed on the Document View Page. 

Foundational Research Panel 

At the right side of the Document View page the new Foundational Research panel is displayed. Foundational Research is a list of records from a Neighborhood of related sources that cite at least five documents cited by the seed document displayed on this page. Foundational Research records are ranked according to the frequency with which they are cited by documents in the Neighborhood. This collection can be useful when building a foundational understanding of a topic or when selecting a topic for a research project. 

The Citation Connections algorithms start by building a “neighborhood” of related documents that share at least five citations with the “seed document” or the document you are viewing. Then the top 20 most cited documents in this neighborhood are presented in the Foundational Research panel, ranked by their citation frequency with the most cited at the top of the list. The assumption behind Foundational Research is that the more cited references two documents share, the closer the subject relationship, and the most frequently cited sources in a subject area are part of the core knowledge in that topic.  

Foundational Sources can include references to books, journal articles, newspaper articles, and more, and if your library has subscription access, or if a document is open access, the sources in the Foundational Research panel may be linked to the abstract or full text of the source, allowing you to save, download, or export the record, which may be useful when building a foundational understanding of a topic or when selecting a topic for a research project. 

This image shows the title of a source recommended by the algorithms in our Citations Connections. Clicking on the title will take you to more information about document, and may include access to full text. 

Cited By 

Cited By is the number of documents in ProQuest databases that have cited this source. You can find Cited By counts associated with references throughout the ProQuest database, including the Foundational Research panel of Citation Connections. 

A mouse click on a Cited By link will open a list of documents in the ProQuest database that have cited that document. For example, if a document has a Cited By count of 83, this means that it has been cited by 83 other documents in the ProQuest database. 

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Not Seeing Results Message 

In some instances, you could see a “Not Seeing Results” message in the Foundational Research panel.   You may see this result if 

Citations are not extracted into the citation network for the seed dissertation or thesis. The algorithms that support Citation Connections require the citations to be integrated into the citation network to provide the list of recommended sources. 

If there are not very many documents available for your topic, that is, if your topic is unique. 

We recommend selecting another dissertation or thesis on the same topic that has full text or starting a new search that expands the topic more broadly.  Refer to the  Support Article for Tips & Tricks for help with your search experience. 

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Provides online access to over 3.8 million dissertations and master's theses with 1.7 million available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database. 

ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index

The ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses, offering over 5.5 million records representing dissertations and theses from thousands of universities around the world.

Extending from they early 1600s to present, PQDT coverage is broadly multidisciplinary and includes foundational research in the life sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities. Within dissertations and theses is a wealth of scholarship, yet it is often overlooked because most go unpublished.

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The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index will be a standalone database and included in an All Databases search by default. WoS users also have filter options available in each search so that they can search broadly and then narrow focus on a particular collection, subject category, document type, etc. If a user wants to locate dissertations or theses specifically, they can also search of ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index only.

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PQDT is included in ALL Database search and can also be searched as a unique collection.

Track citation activity in Web of Science Core Collection

Dissertations and theses that have been cited by Web of Science Core Collection records will include a citation count and a link to the citing articles.

Claim dissertation or theses to a Web of Science Researcher Profiles

Researchers can manually claim their dissertation or thesis to their Web of Science Researcher Profile and make it part of the public view of their profile.

Links to Full Text of dissertations and theses on ProQuest platform

Institutions that subscribe to PQDT Global on the ProQuest platform will be able to link directly to their entitled full text.

Note: ProQuest Dissertation and Theses Citation Index will be released to customers in two phases. Phase 1: In July 2023, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Citation Index will go live with metadata records for 5.5+ million dissertations and theses. The records will not include cited reference indexing, which means that functionality such as Related Records and Cited References lists and associated navigation will not display. Phase 2: In late 2023, Linked Cited References lists and Related Records will be released to fully connect dissertations to the Web of Science citation network. If you have any questions regarding PQDT entitlement or functionality, please contact the Web of Science support team .

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.

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