Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that the Singapore Management University, through a joint project with its Office of Research and its Li Ka Shing Library, has joined the ranks of research institutions worldwide who contribute to ProQuest's acclaimed Dissertations and Theses database. With the addition of Singapore Management University's intellectual output, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, a commercially available repository of graduate works, will expand its global reach into Singapore.
Singapore Management University is the first university in Singapore to publish with ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. This is part of a larger movement of international universities that are raising their global profiles by making their graduate works accessible through ProQuest's service. The University supports open access of theses and dissertations and makes its graduate research available for free on the open Web.
Singapore Management University will release its enhanced institutional repository platform in the last quarter of 2010. The repository serves as the central knowledge base of the research and scholarly intellectual assets of the University. Presently, it includes primarily faculty journal articles, with links to full text where available, as well as working papers. The university will use ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open, a new service that enables authors to make their research available for free on the open Web via an easy to use search box.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses is the seminal repository of intellectual property and emerging research from the world's great universities. Chosen by United States Library of Congress as the official archive of American dissertations, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses now encompasses more than one quarter of a billion pages, creating a unique, continually growing trove of emerging research, landmark works and surprisingly engaging prose. Researchers rely on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses as both a source of enlightening information and as a pivotal component in making their own scholarly production available to the world's intellectual communities. The archive is managed at ProQuest by a team of scholars and technologists, who combine their talents to make the archive accessible, reliable and supported by continually advancing technology.
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