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With more than 5 million dissertations and theses ,  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses  Global  is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. PQDT Global connects scholarship from 4,100 universities, diverse voices, ideas, and perspectives can be viewed within a singular global context.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  is the official dissertations repository for the Library of Congress. It   includes access to international scholarly works from USA, UK to Continental Europe, Africa to India and China. Our partnerships with universities have been key to expanding the reach and impact of graduate works. By working together, the visibility of both the institution and its PhD dissertation production are enhanced in the worldwide research community. In 2017, ProQuest joined forces with China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) to provide first-ever global access to abstracts of the graduate output of 80 Chinese Universities.

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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 Within dissertations and theses is a wealth of scholarship, yet it is often overlooked because most go unpublished.

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Provides online access to over 3.8 million dissertations and master's theses with 1.7 million available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database. 

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Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities.  Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.

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Becca will import to the unit’s online Connexion save file thesis and dissertation records which have been delivered from ProQuest and edited in MarcEdit. Becca and Amy will each take half the alphabet (by last name) and save the assigned records to their respective local Connexion save files.    

To catalog these, open the record in your save file, then search for the thesis or dissertation in the AU Research Commons ETD Collection [ http://aladinrc.wrlc.org/handle/1961/8719 ].  If the item cannot be viewed in the AURC, the full-text may be available in ProQuest’s Digital Theses and Dissertations database.  You can verify that an item is under embargo by checking the ETD submissions excel spreadsheet, found on the i-drive in the Thesis Accessions lists folder.  

Edit the following fields in Connexion, as necessary:

• Code Ill. fields in 008, if applicable.
• If no bibliography (such as for MFA theses), edit Cont. field
• Add thesis accessions number (found on thesis accessions spreadsheet) in second $a
• Edit pagination to match pagination found in PDF (e.g. 279 p. might become ix, 200 p.)
• Add illustrations, if any
•   Look up thesis in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database and add order number to second note.
• Edit DAI abstracts information
• Add pagination for bib. references.

Copy-catalog  all information in the record, in case there are errors.

Cross-check faculty name heading in 790 field with OCLC/Voyager name authorities, as ProQuest does not practice authority control.  Replace heading if necessary.

Next, update AU holdings and export the record into Voyager.  After export, make the following changes:

• Change 790 field to 700
• Change 791 field to 710
• Change 856 $u to $x

Add separate holdings and “dummy” item records for microform and electronic versions.

852 8_ $b aumt $h Thesis $i [number from accessions list]

Item barcode=aumicroformthesis

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852 8_ $b auetd $h AU Electronic theses and dissertations

856 4_ $u [add Dpsace handle link to resource] $z Click here to access the electronic thesis.

Item barcode=eresource

Perm loc=auetd

Item type=electronic

*Note about electronic holdings: if the item is under permanent embargo in the AURC, suppress auetd holdings.  

If the ETD spreadsheet indicates that the item is under embargo and/or is (or will be) campus-access only, please add a note to the holdings record in 852, subfield z indicating this.

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