The London-based Royal College of Art (RCA) has joined the ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses publishing program to contribute its graduate students’ dissertations and theses to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global® (PQDT) database, the leading global source of emerging research from universities around the world.
Consistently ranked as the top art and design university in the world by the QS World University Subject Rankings, the RCA’s doctoral research is unique and wide-ranging, covering art, design, architecture, humanities and even science and technology. Hundreds of graduate works from the RCA – the only fully postgraduate art and design university in the UK – will be accessible by PQDT users around the globe and broadly discoverable via citations in major subject indexes and Google Scholar.
Dissertations and theses often provide the most up-to-date research on a particular subject and are crucial to the global academic community. Originally created in 1939 in microfilm format, PQDT has grown to meet the increasing demand of technology and the global research community to archive and disseminate graduate works. Their extensive bibliographies are often relied upon to surface and at times directly link ProQuest users to additional primary sources that might otherwise be missed.
The fast and seamless discovery of more than 5 million works in PQDT – 2.7 million in full text – improves access to the important content. The full spectrum of content in PQDT is also available in the ProQuest One™ Academic database.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.
Click here to read the original press release.
