Maynooth University, also known as The National University of Ireland Maynooth, is one of the first Irish institutions to include its graduate research in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global® (PQDT) database. The PQDT database claims to be the largest curated collection of theses and dissertations in the world.
The ProQuest database will include more than 1,200 full-text PhD and Master’s theses and dissertations from Maynooth University, as well as future graduate research submitted at Maynooth on an ongoing basis. These works will be accessible by PQDT users globally and will be broadly discoverable via citations in major subject indexes and Google Scholar, giving Maynooth’s authors greater visibility and recognition for their research outputs.
Dissertations and theses often provide the most up-to-date, comprehensive and sometimes unique research on specific subjects. Now, more than 4 million researchers at 3,100 universities will have access to content authored by Maynooth graduates. Maynooth can also track, monitor and see trends in usage with the new ETD Dashboard.
Originally created in 1939 in microfilm format, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global has grown to more than 5 million works, with 2.7 million in full text. Cross-searching with other scholarly material on the ProQuest platform simplifies research workflows even further, saving time for users and broadening the scope of their searches. The full spectrum of content in PQDT is also available in ProQuest One Academic.
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