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ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index

The ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses, offering over 5.5 million records representing dissertations and theses from thousands of universities around the world.

Extending from they early 1600s to present, PQDT coverage is broadly multidisciplinary and includes foundational research in the life sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities. Within dissertations and theses is a wealth of scholarship, yet it is often overlooked because most go unpublished.

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The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index will be a standalone database and included in an All Databases search by default. WoS users also have filter options available in each search so that they can search broadly and then narrow focus on a particular collection, subject category, document type, etc. If a user wants to locate dissertations or theses specifically, they can also search of ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index only.

Standalone and aggregated search

PQDT is included in ALL Database search and can also be searched as a unique collection.

Track citation activity in Web of Science Core Collection

Dissertations and theses that have been cited by Web of Science Core Collection records will include a citation count and a link to the citing articles.

Claim dissertation or theses to a Web of Science Researcher Profiles

Researchers can manually claim their dissertation or thesis to their Web of Science Researcher Profile and make it part of the public view of their profile.

Links to Full Text of dissertations and theses on ProQuest platform

Institutions that subscribe to PQDT Global on the ProQuest platform will be able to link directly to their entitled full text.

Note: ProQuest Dissertation and Theses Citation Index will be released to customers in two phases. Phase 1: In July 2023, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Citation Index will go live with metadata records for 5.5+ million dissertations and theses. The records will not include cited reference indexing, which means that functionality such as Related Records and Cited References lists and associated navigation will not display. Phase 2: In late 2023, Linked Cited References lists and Related Records will be released to fully connect dissertations to the Web of Science citation network. If you have any questions regarding PQDT entitlement or functionality, please contact the Web of Science support team .

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the largest editorially curated repository of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses in the world. It includes millions of full-text dissertations, the majority of which were published after 1997, but hundreds of thousands of titles published before 1997 are also available. In addition to the full-text content, citations for over 5 million dissertations and theses are included. Content comes from thousands of universities located in 100+ countries. The database increases in size by 200,000+ works each year, and is designated as the official dissertation repository by the United States Library of Congress.

E-learning modules, webinar recordings, and additional resources are available at the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Libguide .

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global   is a wealth of unique global scholarship, which is a credible and quality source to Uncover the Undiscovered research insights and intelligence in easiest and most effective ways. The equitable discoverability of more than 6 million dissertations and theses with coverage from year 1637, allows researchers to amplify diverse voices and place their research in a global context. The database offers more than 3.6 million full texts for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

By leveraging the rich citation data found in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and with new citation insight tool, researchers can benefit from focused pathways of discovery to build foundational knowledge on various research topics. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year to enrich the citation data continuously.

For more information about the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global , navigate to the Content Page .

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global   Database  is also part of ProQuest One Academic .  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global resides on the ProQuest Platform. For additional information about basic and advanced functionality or administrative capabilities, visit the   ProQuest Platform LibGuide .

The Dissertations Bootcamp eLearning Modules are a free resource that help support graduate student planning, writing, and research.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Citation Connections

Here you can have a preview of the new features just launched for the Cited Reference documents in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Librarian

Intended for Librarians who want to learn how to use the database's advanced search to support subject area research at their institution. Duration: 2 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Searching Titles and Languages

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can use the database's advanced search to identify known dissertations by title and search/analyze by languages other than English. Duration: 3 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Searching Names

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or Ph, can use the database's advanced search to identify dissertations of known Authors or Advisors and further refine/analyze them. Duration: 4 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Cited References

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can use the dissertations to retrieve and explore further the Cited References. Duration: 4 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Supplemental Files

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can identify dissertations with Supplemental files which may contain useful materials for their graduate work. Duration: 3.5 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Subject Searching

This session will show Students, both Masters or PhD, some Search techniques both Basic and Advanced to locate dissertations on a certain topic. Duration: 5.5 minutes.

Webinar Title : Best Practices for Searching ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global

This session demonstrates how users can utilize the best practices of searching the " ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global  database" to connect with relevant information for their academic work. Duration:  52 minutes.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index on the Web of Science

Accessing scholarly content in ProQuest through Google Scholar

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ProQuest has partnered with Google to enable the full text of its scholarly journal content to be indexed in Google Scholar. Users starting their research in Google Scholar will be able to access scholarly content via the ProQuest interface (search.proquest.com). Here are answers to some common questions on accessing ProQuest content in Google Scholar.

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Which products will be indexed in Google Scholar?

Google indexes scholarly content not products. That said, most ProQuest platform scholarly content including nearly half a million full text dissertations are indexed in Google Scholar. Google’s definition of scholarly content covers the source types and document types listed below. Read Google Scholar’s content guidelines for additional details.

• Scholarly Journal articles
• Dissertations & theses (New!)
• Conference Papers
• Conference Proceedings
• Working Papers

Which content types will Google Scholar not index?

The following non-scholarly content types will not be indexed by Google:

• Current news
• Historical newspapers
• Trade journals
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• Encyclopedias & Reference Works
• Funds, Grants, Fellowships & Awards
• Non-scholarly historical periodicals (i.e. The Spectator)
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Are dissertations indexed in Google Scholar?

Good news! Almost half a million full text ProQuest dissertations are now indexed and accessible in Google Scholar. Now users starting their search in Google Scholar can seamlessly discover and access this set of full text graduate works in their libraries subscription collections.

Will ebrary and EBL ebooks be indexed in Google Scholar?

We are still working through the best way to index ebrary and EBL e-books in Google Scholar, but we do not have an update at this time.

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Will this require any technical set up on the library’s part.

No additional setup is required. We are sharing the necessary subscriber information to enable authenticated Google Scholar users to access the ProQuest content purchased by their libraries.

Will Google share customer information with third parties or use it for marketing purposes?

No. Google has strict policies that they will not share customer demographic or holdings information. Those policies are outlined here .

How will end users access ProQuest content in Google Scholar?

Google Scholar groups multiple versions of a work into a single record to improve its ranking in search results. It’s Google’s policy that the publisher's full-text, if indexed, is the primary version. This means that when an article is available from a customer’s publisher subscription and their ProQuest subscription, the publisher link will be the primary version.

When Google Scholar does not have full text content from the publisher, but the full text has been indexed from ProQuest AND the subscription information indicates that full text is available to the user from ProQuest, the end user will be directed to ProQuest to access full text.

When Google Scholar has the full text content from the publisher AND does not have the subscription information from the publisher, but instead, ProQuest provides that subscription information, the end user will be directed to ProQuest to access full text.

How will users authenticate from Google Scholar into ProQuest?

Users will authenticate into ProQuest from Google Scholar by IP authentication or by any of our other authentication methods, including username/password, institutional/library login, and Athens.

• On-campus and IP authenticated – Provided the document is available in the institution’s ProQuest subscription, the user clicks on the document from Google/Google Scholar search results and clicks through to the full-text in ProQuest. Note, if the document is not included in the institution’s ProQuest subscription, they user will land on a document preview page with an abstract of the article and text explaining that the article isn’t available in their library’s subscription. The user will have the option to search for similar full-text content within ProQuest.
• Off-campus authentication (non-authenticated users) – For researchers who are not authenticated, when they click through to a ProQuest document in Google Scholar they will land on a document preview page with an abstract of the article. From here they can log into ProQuest via any of the usual methods to see the full article or item.

My institution is participating in the Google Scholar library links program, what should I do?

Nothing, you can continue participating in the Library Links program. Our collaboration with Google will make it easier for researchers to access your institution’s scholarly full text content from ProQuest.

Google Scholar/Google Search

Is everything in google scholar indexed in google search.

Yes. Everything in Scholar is indexed in the Google Index; Google Scholar is a subset of scholarly research. Google presents the data differently within Scholar vs. Google Search. Here are the most important points of differentiation:

• Scholar: Versions of the same article are collapsed into a single record.
• Google Search: Display as individual results.
• Scholar: Searches against full-text when it’s available.
• Google Search: Does not match queries against full-text yet…it is being worked on. At one point it was planned for 2015, our Google contacts have not confirmed timing.  If implemented it may impact relevance ranking because the content may be more likely to match queries.
• Scholar is not matching against the entire contents of the web.
• No special relevance ranking for scholarly articles in web search; treated like any other content on web
• The same criteria that influences relevance ranking in the main index (SEO, inbound links, relevance of content) are applied to scholarly articles within the main search index

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