Social publishing company Scribd, US, has announced an agreement with academic dissertations and theses publisher ProQuest to make selected graduate dissertations and theses available for purchase on Scribd (www.scribd.com/ProQuestUMI). The agreement will provide Scribd readers access to tens of thousands of original research and papers from leading academic institutions.
ProQuest UMI has over 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses in its library with more than 700 active university partners and over 70,000 new graduate works published each year.
Scribd seeks to make written works available for people to read and interact with, any time and on any device. Its document reader technology enables anyone to easily upload their files - including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and other document types - and share on Scribd.com or embed on thousands of other websites. Research organisations already publishing on Scribd include the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Harvard University Press, Institute for Public Policy Research (UK), The MIT Press, World Bank and World Economic Forum.
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