Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it is eliminating fees for basic submission to ProQuest Dissertation &Theses Database through its ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator. According to the company, use of the ETD Administrator - with its simple, paper-free, online process - has grown significantly and now accounts for 60 percent of submissions. An assessment of ProQuest's cost structure revealed workflow efficiencies as use has increased and the resulting cost savings are being passed along to users.
About 99 percent of North American graduate degree-granting institutions contribute their graduate students' works to the ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Database, enabling them to be easily discovered and accessed. Submission through the ETD Administrator has revolutionised the process, making it twice as fast and providing a significantly easier experience by eliminating the need to box and ship paper copies of each dissertation or thesis.
ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator is designed to support the needs of universities as well as students. Participating institutions have their own customised Administrator that guides students through the process of uploading their graduate works and providing all relevant information. An alert is sent to the school's designated contact when each student submission is complete, providing an opportunity to review the submission before it ultimately goes to ProQuest.
The ETD Administrator contains the ability for a university to create customised checklists and tags, among other functionality, that tracks electronically what previously had to be done by hand. Authors at the University of California-Berkeley, which electronically submits about 825 dissertations annually, will save as a group more than $50,000 through the elimination of the fee.
ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Database is the seminal repository of intellectual output and emerging research from the world's great universities. Chosen by United States Library of Congress as the official archive of American dissertations, ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Database 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 Dissertation & Theses Database as a source of enlightening information, 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.
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