ProQuest and China Academic Library Information System (CALIS), a consortium of Chinese higher education libraries, have expanded their long-standing collaboration and are now enabling unprecedented, global access to more than 270,000 dissertation abstracts from China’s premier universities. The records, captured in English, are available in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Database (PQDT Global™), allowing 3,000 universities around the world to discover graduate research from institutions in China. The collaboration advances global research by making a more complete picture of scholarship discoverable. It also enables Chinese universities to disseminate their students’ work outside of their country.
This is the second major dissertations project from ProQuest and CALIS, who have worked together for more than a decade. In 2003, they created a dissertations resource that empowers CALIS member libraries to discover and access the full text of more than 630,000 dissertations from PQDT Global on the CALIS platform.
In addition to elevating the global profile of participating universities, the new program provides insights about how their dissertations are being used. Each library receives an analytical tool showing usage of their content overall as well as by country and university. The libraries can also monitor popularity of dissertations by work and subject area, pinpointing their university’s strengths on a worldwide stage – critical evidence that helps universities attract an international selection of high-quality students and premier faculty.
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