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Submitting your thesis/dissertation.

Submission of the final thesis/dissertation must be within 60 days of the final exam. Students who miss the 60 day submission deadline are ineligible to register in future terms.

The Graduate School uses ProQuest to administer the electronic thesis/dissertation (ETD) submission and committee approval process that results in publication in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) database and Cornell’s Library Repository, eCommons. Before initiating the electronic process, students are required to complete the Survey of Earned Doctorates (for doctoral students only). A SED Certification of Completion is provided to the student when the survey has been completed. Once the survey is completed, the final ETD can then be submitted to the Graduate School using the ProQuest system. The SED Certification of Completion is required for submission to ProQuest.

ProQuest Submission Steps

In order to complete the submission process, you will need to have the following:

• A single PDF file of your thesis or dissertation
• Your abstract
• Supplemental material
• SED Certification of Completion 

Step 1: Begin Submission Process

Master’s students go to  Cornell Master’s ProQuest site, doctoral students go to  Cornell Doctoral ProQuest site. Click on the “sign up and get started today” button and follow instructions to begin the submission process.

Submission Process: Submission steps are outlined on the left menu. You will see the items checked off as you progress through the submission steps. You must click “Save & Continue” at the bottom of each page, even pages on which you do not enter any information. Using the left menu, you can return to any page and make changes until the point of final submission.

Step 2: Publishing Options

Traditional Publishing:  “Traditional Publishing” is automatically selected and is included in the Cornell Thesis and Dissertation filing fees.

Delayed Release:  ProQuest provides six months, and one and two year embargoes. The Graduate School recommends you discuss the publishing options with your advisor. If your advisor is unavailable or has no opinion, the conservative approach is to choose a two-year embargo.

Step 3: Read and Agree to ProQuest and University Distribution License

Both ProQuest and Cornell University distribution licenses will be presented for your acceptance.

Step 4: Enter Thesis/Dissertation Information

In addition to the mandatory information, such as title and abstract, you will have the opportunity to select up to three categories (subject areas) and six key words that describe your ETD. This information will make it easier for others to find your work when searching the web.

Step 5: Upload PDF and Supplemental Files

Upload PDF: Whether you use the PDF conversion tool provided by ProQuest or you convert your document to PDF yourself, review your PDF to ensure your formatting remains as you intended after conversion.

Supplementary Materials: If supplementary materials – such as audio, video, and spreadsheets – are an integral part of your ETD, you can submit them as supplementary files during the online submission process.

Step 6: Upload Required Documents

The SED Certification of Completion if you are a Ph.D. candidate is required for submission to ProQuest.

Step 7: Register for Copyright

You can complete this process through ProQuest for a fee, or you complete the process independently through the U.S. Copyright Office.

Step 8: Order Copies

If you would like to purchase additional copies of your thesis/dissertation for yourself, your field, or your committee members, you may order bound copies through ProQuest (Order Copies page). The required bound archival copy for the library is automatically ordered for you and included in the Cornell thesis and dissertation filing fees.

Select the “Decline – do not order” option if you don’t wish to order additional copies.

Bound copies can also be ordered through Cornell Print Services .

Step 9: Review and Submit

Once the thesis editor has reviewed the formatting of your thesis/dissertation, you will receive an email to let you know whether any corrections are required. You will then have five days to make the changes and upload the revised PDF. You will not be certified for graduation until the formatting of your ETD has been fully approved by the Graduate School. You will receive a confirmation email of final acceptance.

Step 10: Submitting Revised PDF (if needed)

You will receive an email describing the formatting changes needed with instructions and a link for resubmission.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

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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MCW employees and students can access all published MCW dissertations and theses online.

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The School of Graduate Studies and the School of Medicine (Honors in Research) utilize ProQuest for publishing dissertations and theses. If you are a student, you can create or continue your submission of your dissertation or thesis with ProQuest online by clicking one of the options below:

• Publishing of MCW dissertations and theses is at no cost to the student when selecting traditional publishing.
• There is cost to optional additions such as having ProQuest file for copyright on your behalf, Open Access Publishing, and ordering bound copies of your work.
• For more information, reference the Publishing Guides and Bound Copies sections.

Publishing Guides

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• Create or continue your dissertation or thesis submission with ProQuest  here .
• Online Submission FAQs
• Preparing your manuscript for submission (including supplemental files) . Provides guidance on how to embed fonts and other issues important to preparing your manuscript for submission.
• Open Access Service compared to Traditional Publishing . Information on the publishing options available to you, and why you might choose one over the other. Traditional Publishing is at no cost to the student.
• ProQuest Subject Categories . A complete list of the available ProQuest subject categories.

Delayed Release of Your Work (Embargo)

• Delayed release and other publishing options . Provides guidance on why you may or may not want to put an embargo or sales restriction on your graduate work.
• Why Copyright
• Copyright and Your Dissertation or Thesis: Ownership, Fair Use, and Your Rights and Responsibilities  
• Copyright Laws Around the World. A supplement to Copyright Your Dissertation or Thesis: Ownership, Fair Use, and Your Rights and Responsibilities.

Bound Copies

Purchase a bound copy.

• Effective October 1, 2024, all Graduate School graduates will receive one free bound 8 ½ x 11 hardcover, double sided, color copy of their dissertation or thesis. The Graduate School will contact the graduate 3-4 months after the dissertation or thesis ProQuest online submission to coordinate pick-up or shipping of the one free bound copy.
• Students have the option to purchase additional bound copies of their thesis or dissertation through ProQuest with their submission to be shipped directly to them separately from the one free bound copy.
• After the thesis or dissertation is published in ProQuest, anyone else can order bound copies online  here .
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