Soon after its founding in 1938, UMI became the publisher of record for U.S. doctoral dissertations. To this day, ProQuest Information and Learning fills that role for graduate students whose dissertations & theses have been accepted by institutions throughout North America and around the world.  Read more here about the many reasons why graduate schools publish their dissertations & theses with ProQuest/UMI.  The ProQuest/UMI® dissertations & theses product line -- which consists of bibliographic data, indexing, access tools, and the published documents themselves -- is recognized worldwide because of its comprehensive coverage, high-quality information, and rigorous editorial control.

The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database (PQDT) catalogs over 2.3 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses, dating from the first U.S. dissertation in 1861. Thousands more are added yearly.    Over 1.9 million dissertations and theses are available in full page image in microform and paper, both bound and unbound. More than 800,000 are also available in digital format, for downloading over the Web.   In fact, we are the US Library of Congress’ official offsite repository for digital dissertations and theses in digital format.

We offer a comprehensive overview of services offered by UMI Dissertation Publishing (both our dissertation products and our publishing services for graduate students) online.

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