A new electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) dashboard can help administrators and librarians gather valuable data on their university’s research output – and it is now available free to all universities who disseminate their dissertations and theses with ProQuest.
Developed in collaboration with librarians and graduate school administrators, the ETD Dashboard offers a visual summary of data generated from the usage and retrieval of dissertations and theses from the ProQuest® platform.
The dashboard lets institutions view their dissertation and theses retrieval trends by subject, author, country, university and more. They can also benchmark the data against other university groups. Retrieval and usage data is gathered from the 4 million researchers from 3,100 institutions that subscribe to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global® database across more than 100 countries.
Librarians and graduate-school administrators can use the ETD Dashboard data to support grant-writing efforts and investment decisions, market university standings, enhance the most frequently accessed dissertation titles and subject areas, and track retrieval data against other universities in Carnegie Tiers, Times Higher Education World University Rankings or a custom group of peer institutions.
More information about the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses dissemination program can be found at https://about.proquest.com/products-services/Include-Dissertations-and-Theses.html.
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