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Ohio State has agreements with two organizations, OhioLINK and ProQuest/UMI , that store and provide access to Ohio State theses and dissertations.

OhioLINK  is Ohio’s state library network and includes a consortium of Ohio colleges and universities. 

ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing  has been collecting and making dissertations available to the public for purchase since 1938, and now manages a database of 90 percent of the dissertations released in the United States. Ohio State has an agreement with ProQuest/UMI to microfilm all approved Ohio State dissertations for archival purposes. This microfilmed archival copy is retained in the Ohio State libraries.

Delay Policy

Graduate students can apply to delay electronic access to their dissertations and theses for one to five years. These requests are reviewed by the Graduate School. If the initial request is granted, additional extensions can be requested up to five years. Graduate students bear the responsibility for requesting extensions. If the Graduate School does not receive a request for an extension,  OhioLINK  will release the document according to the original schedule. 

While a delay is applied to a student's document, the document title and abstract will be publicly available once the student's  OhioLINK  submission is published by the Graduate School.  

A publication delay approved for a doctoral dissertation on OhioLINK means that the document will not be sent to  Proquest/UMI  until the OhioLINK delay expires. If a ProQuest delay is still desired at that time, the student must request it directly through ProQuest. A separate form, the  UMI Publishing Agreement , must be completed and e-mailed directly to UMI/ProQuest to request a delay of publication on the Proquest Dissertation Publishing Database.

Requesting an Access Delay through OhioLINK

Graduate student can request a delay in access when they submit their document PDF to  OhioLI NK  and by submitting the Delay of Final Document form in  GRADFORMS .

• Master's students: Check "Do not upload to UMI" box in the UMI Permissions box (Master’s theses are not archived through UMI.)
• PhD and DMA students: Check "Upload my paper to UMI for traditional publishing."
• Graduate students must also complete and submit the Graduate School’s Delay of Final Document Form via  GRADFORM

The OhioLink and GRADFORMS processes are both required. If a graduate student checks the OhioLINK delay button but does not submit Delay of Final Document form, the dissertation will be released for access.

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University Library and UMI offer Dissertation Express

Taking a cue from the Old West, albeit doing things a little more quickly, the University Library now offers “Dissertation Express.”

Individuals who need copies of dissertations now can get them in approximately two to three days, for only $15.

In the past, if you wanted a dissertation, you first had to visit a library and find out what library owned the dissertation. Then, if it was available, you’d have to borrow a microfilm copy, which might take several weeks to receive. Or you could contact University Microfilms Inc. (UMI) and purchase a copy, at approximately $35 and up to four weeks for delivery.

Thanks to a joint project of the Library and UMI, dissertations now are scanned on demand and then transformed from microfilm to digital text and printed unbound on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.

“The reproduction quality is excellent, including graphic material, and the response has been phenomenal,” says Wendy Lougee, director of the Digital Library Program. “We’ve done very basic advertising and had several hundred requests. And people are very pleased with the quality.”

Lougee says the next phase of the project will take the process at least one step further—sending digital images over the network to printers located on campus.

“This pilot project offers an attractive model for information delivery, Lougee notes, ‘just-in-time’ from publishers.”

Dissertation searchers also have access to Dissertation Abstracts International via the Internet through the “Ulibrary” gopher to help speed the search process.

Sample copies of digitally printed dissertations are available at the Graduate Library Reference and Information Center, the Interlibrary Loan Office (Room 106, Hatcher Library North) or the Engineering Library Reference Desk.

Express Dissertation orders can be placed at any University Library reference desk, and payment can be made by check (payable to UMI), money order or University account. Those using U-M accounts can place their orders via e-mail to [email protected].

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• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Search the NDLTD Union Catalog of more than one million electronic theses and dissertations. Or, search specific country sites. Not all theses and dissertations found here are open-access (i.e. the full text may not be available).
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• Interlibrary Loan We will attempt to borrow dissertations from other libraries. There is no charge for this service, but it can be difficult to obtain a dissertation. Other libraries may not be able to lend their dissertations and the only loanable copy might be on microform. You may be able to get sections of dissertations, so you can include a note in your request, or we can work with you to find the parts you need.
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Check Cornell’s library catalog , which lists the dissertations available in our library collection.

The print thesis collection in Uris Library is currently shelved on Level 3B before the Q to QA regular-sized volumes. Check with the library staff for the thesis shelving locations in other libraries (Mann, Catherwood, Fine Arts, etc.).

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

According to ProQuest, coverage begins with 1637. With more than 2.4 million entries,  ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global  is the starting point for finding citations to doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master’s theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI also offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. The full text of more than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download. Use  Interlibrary Loan  for the titles not available as full text online.

Foreign Dissertations at the Center for Research Libraries

To search for titles and verify holdings of dissertations at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), use the CRL catalog . CRL seeks to provide comprehensive access to doctoral dissertations submitted to institutions outside the U. S. and Canada (currently more than 750,000 titles). One hundred European universities maintain exchange or deposit agreements with CRL. Russian dissertation abstracts in the social sciences are obtained on microfiche from INION.  More detailed information about CRL’s dissertation holdings .

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection This database lists over 2 million dissertations and theses from over 700 academic institutions worldwide, with the full text for many of them. It does not include Cal Poly Pomona theses. Our subscription includes both the Humanities and Social Sciences Collection and the Sciences and Engineering Collection. Coverage: 1637 - Current.

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• Open DOAR OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
• NDLTD NDLTD is the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) A resource for finding open access (free) theses and dissertations published around the world.
• PQDT Open With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
• UMI Dissertation Express You can do a general search for dissertations in the UMI Dissertation Express. If you find one you like, search for it in Google, Google Scholar and/or OpenDOAR.

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The Library of Congress holds an extensive collection of U.S. doctoral dissertations. Most of these dissertations do not have records in the  Library of Congress's Online Catalog , however, and none are freely available online through the Library. Resources through which researchers can access the Library's collection of dissertations are discussed below.

The majority of the Library's dissertations are available on microfilm and have been acquired through a subscription with University Microfilms International (UMI), now known as  UMI Dissertation Publishing  (a division of  ProQuest ).  The Library's subscription was  established in 1938 , when UMI began microfilming dissertations for archival purposes. Although initially not all universities participated in this archival project by sending their dissertations to UMI for microfilming (the University of Chicago did not participate until 2009), today all major universities submit electronic dissertations to UMI; as a result, the program is very comprehensive.

Of the roughly 1,000,000 dissertation titles in the Library's collections, most are microfilm or microfiche and may be requested in person in the Library of Congress's  Microform and Electronic Resources Center  (Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ 139). Some early dissertations and those from the University of Chicago through June 2009 are found in paper copies throughout the Library's General Collections and can be searched by title or author in the Library's  online catalog also available at catalog.loc.gov.

The Library of Congress also subscribes to  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  ( PQDT ). This database provides citations for nearly five million dissertations from 1861 to the present, as well as the full-text of 2.6 million dissertations.  Full-text access to most dissertations since 1997 is available, along with full-text access to many pre-1997 dissertations. These dissertations can be downloaded in PDF format; other dissertations are available for purchase through the database. Due to the limitations of the Library's license to use this product, only researchers in one of the reading rooms at the Library of Congress are able to gain access to  PQDT . The database is also available through many larger academic libraries. Of special note: dissertations in this database are  indexed through Google Scholar . As  noted by ProQuest : "An authenticated ProQuest dissertations user searching Google Scholar will be recognized by the ProQuest platform and connect to the full text in their library’s collection. Users who are not recognized are sent to a landing page where they can purchase the dissertation or access the first 24 pages at no charge. Dissertations that have been published using the ProQuest Open Access publishing model are available to all users for free."

If a dissertation is not available electronically through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  ( PQDT ) , the citation provides a unique number that can be used to request dissertations on microfilm, as specified above.

Several printed reference sources, also available at many academic libraries, offered cumulative coverage comparable to  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global .  These are  Dissertation Abstracts International ;  Masters Abstracts International ; and  American Doctoral Dissertations . The latter two print publications have ceased; and print editions of  Dissertation Abstracts International  no longer appear to be published.

For researchers who lack library access to  PQDT , ProQuest offers various options for searching and purchasing copies of dissertations  available through  PQDT . Researchers who would like to purchase a known dissertation listed in  PQDT  but don't have access to the database can search for the dissertation by title, author, and order number, and then purchase a copy, through  Dissertation Express .

An increasing number of free databases allow users to search for citations to and sometimes the full text of U.S. and international dissertations. For example:

• A limited version of dissertations submitted to ProQuest have been published as open access materials and can be searched through  PQDT Open .
• The British Library's  Electronic Theses Online Service  ( EThOS ) allows users to search across 500,000+ theses from the United Kingdom for free and order their full text quickly and easily. Database content is also indexed in the larger  EBSCO Open Dissertations  database (see below).
• The  Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations  contains nearly six million electronic theses and dissertations from the U.S. and other countries.  Start your search here .
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations  is an index of over 3.5 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from around the world. To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.
• The  DART-Europe E-theses Portal  includes more than 828,000 full-text theses and dissertations from 619 participating universities from 28 European countries.
• The  Theses Canada Portal  includes more than 200,000 electronic theses from the Library and Archives Canada's collection.
• EBSCO Open Dissertations i ncludes records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations, including the content of the former  American Doctoral Dissertations  database. By providing access to  American Doctoral Dissertations , it offers a comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities during 1933-1955 and listed in the print index  Doctoral Dissertations. EBSCO Open Dissertations  also indexes the content of the British Library's EThOS database (see above).
• Records for 800,000 dissertations from more than 90 countries and over 1,200 institutions are available through the  Center for Research Libraries .
• Records for selected dissertations and theses by  WorldCat member libraries  can be found through the  WorldCat database's Advanced Search page  (limit search by Content to  Thesis/dissertation ).

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) lists  additional online sources for international dissertations .

Many Library researchers are interested in accessing Masters theses. While many Masters theses are indexed by ProQuest, a comprehensive listing is not available through  PQDT .  In addition, as a general rule the Library of Congress does not collect Masters theses. With few exceptions, the best source for obtaining Masters theses is the library of the university granting the degree.

Library of Congress researchers interested in Chinese dissertations can access the contents of  Chinese Electronic Dissertations (CETD)  database through the  Airiti Library  subscription database . Similarly, the  China Doctor/Master Dissertations Full-text Database  (1999- ) can be accessed through the larger  China National Knowledge Infrastructure  database. Researchers  should contact  the Library's  Asian Reading Room  for additional guidance locating dissertations in Chinese and other Asian languages. Additionally, researchers should:

• contact the Library's European Reading Room  for additional guidance locating dissertations in European languages;
• contact the Library's African and Middle Eastern Reading Room  for additional guidance locating dissertations in African and Middle Eastern languages; and
• contact the Library's Hispanic Reading Room  for additional guidance locating dissertations in Spanish and other languages spoken in parts of the world encompassing the Caribbean, Latin America, and Iberia.

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Style guide and formatting your manuscript ( open this section).

The student and their committee are jointly responsible for seeing to it that the thesis or dissertation follows a correct form of scholarly style and usage. The student can follow the guidelines outlined in the   Style Guide   or may follow the style specified by their committee or department as long as the style is consistent throughout the paper.

Submit your manuscript to your committee several weeks before your defense so they have time to read it. Please review the   Format Checklist   before submitting to your committee.

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Each member of a candidate’s advisory committee must have made their criticisms and have seen and approved the revisions the student has made. Such approval is tentative acceptance of the content, organization, form of expression, style and usage.

• The committee approval shall be executed on the Preliminary Approval and Notice of Defense form and filed in the School of Graduate Studies by the deadline. The signed approval is a commitment that the members of the committee will require no major changes of the content, organization, or style after the final copy has been prepared.
• The Preliminary Approval and Notice of Defense form must be submitted to the School of Graduate Studies two weeks prior to the scheduled oral examination date and on or before the Preliminary Approval deadline.

Please note that it is expected there will be content revisions needed after receiving feedback from you committee. However, it is also expected that the document is ready to defend, meaning that your document is in its final stage of completion.

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The candidate and committee members must be physically present at the defense unless the program has developed clear guidelines and instructions by which the candidate or committee members may participate at a distance using real-time synchronous technology. Any technology used to facilitate distance participation by the candidate or committee members must be supported by UND, capable of real-time audio and video, compatible with “presentation” software, such as PowerPoint, and must be open and accessible to the candidate, committee, and public.

The Final Report on Candidate form and Approval page will both be initiated and signed after your successful defense. Both of these forms are available in DocuSign and can be found on the   forms page .

The Approval Page must be included in your final manuscript, but you have the option to include an unsigned copy or the DocuSign signed copy. You will receive a PDF of the completed form to insert into your document if you choose to do so.

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Students may hold their defense in-person, virtually, or hybrid. Technology adds an extra layer to a virtual or hybrid defense and we want you to be successful.

The School of Graduate Studies has approved Master’s and Doctoral defenses to be done virtually via Zoom.

Scheduling Your Zoom Defense

Zoom links can be included on the   Preliminary Approval and Notice of Defense form .

Advisors and student should work with department chairs and graduate program directors to ensure that all parties involved in the defense have access to the technology necessary to conduct defenses in real-time synchronous fashion.

Zoom Defense Tips

• Assign someone on the committee – not the student defending – to setup, manage, and moderate the Zoom call so that the student doesn’t have to manage that extra potential stress. Make sure that the committee provides for extra time and backups in case things go wrong. Set up the connection early (15+ minutes) and ask the committee to show up early to check everything is working. Have one or more backups including something as simple as a phone-based conference call.
• If the defense incorporates a presentation, ask all committee/audience participants to mute themselves at the start or have the committee member managing the call mute them all centrally. It’s easy to forget you aren’t muted and unintentionally interrupt the candidate.
• A Zoom defense will be new territory for many; as such, having committee and audience members using video is especially important – barring bandwidth issues – so that the candidate, to the degree possible, can see audience reactions. This will be especially important during the private portion of the defense, with just the committee members. Audience and committee members should consider exaggerating your positive responses; clear head nods, thumbs up, big smiles, can all help mimic the normal positive audience cues and non-verbal feedback of an in-person defense. Giving a presentation without clear audience response can be really difficult. Of course, if there are bandwidth issues, the committee member managing the call should alert everyone and ask for audience members to stop their video until the issue is resolved. And in the event that the candidate prefers not to see the audience, that can also be accommodated.
• As technology access allows, a candidate can use a 2 monitor setup that will let them see those attending the talk plus their slides and notes. You can show a whole screen of faces – using gallery view – on the second monitor. During Q&A, the ‘hand raise’ function can help prevent voice collisions. The committee moderator can help manage this as well.
• When it comes time for the student to “step out of the room” while committee members deliberate, one option is to have the committee member managing the zoom conversation put the student “on hold”. Committee members might also move into a break out room.
• Recommendations for changes required prior to submitting final paperwork (e.g. final report)
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Submit as a pdf.

The manuscript of your thesis or dissertation must be submitted to ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing in Adobe PDF format. When preparing the PDF, the following must be done:

• Embed all fonts (information on how to embed fonts can be found on the   ProQuest website .)
• Make sure there is no password protection on the PDF.
• Ensure that security settings allow printing.

View Proper Formatting

ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing makes no changes to the formatting and content of submitted manuscripts. Therefore, the burden of how the manuscript looks when it is accessed or printed is entirely the responsibility of the author. ProQuest strongly recommends that individual authors take responsibility for reformatting the document into Adobe PDF, for checking the reformatted document for accuracy, and for submitting the PDF document to the graduate school via the   ProQuest ETD Administrator Site   for publication.

ProQuest does not have a word limit on your abstract, as this constrains your ability to describe your research in a section that is accessible to search engines, and therefore would constrain potential exposure of your work. However, we continue to publish print indexes that include citations and abstracts of all dissertations and theses published by ProQuest/UMI. These print indexes require limits of 350 words for doctoral dissertations and 150 words for master’s theses. Additionally, our print indexes allow only text to be included in the abstract. In the editorial process for these print publications, we will simply truncate your abstract if it exceeds these word limits and remove any non-text content. You may want to limit the length of your abstract if this concerns you. The abstract as you submit it will not be altered in your published manuscript.

Submit Electronic Manuscript ( Open this section)

After you make the required changes or corrections, you will electronically upload the final version of your manuscript in PDF format to the   ProQuest ETD Administrator site at UMI/ProQuest .

Once you electronically submit your final manuscript for publishing, no changes are made to the format or content. Therefore, the burden of how the manuscript looks is entirely the responsibility of the student author.

Steps for Thesis/Dissertation Electronic Submission

When you submit your final PDF to ProQuest/UMI Publishing, it will be logged, indexed, and published. ProQuest/UMI is a private company that has served for many years as the publisher and distributor for most theses and dissertations written in the United States. Please keep in mind that ProQuest acts as a publisher and does not own the copyright to your manuscript. As the author, you retain control of your work’s intellectual content.

Your document will be available after approximately 8 weeks in the ProQuest/UMI database, unless you restricted it. The Chester Fritz Library will receive your bound copy that will be available in the Library periodicals as well as an electronic copy that will be available in the   UND Scholarly Commons .

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Traditional – this choice will meet the needs of most students. There is no fee and this choice allows UMI to reproduce, distribute, and sell copies of your work-0 with royalties paid to you as the author.

Open Access – this optional service makes your work freely available for viewing or downloading by anyone with access to the Internet. The Open Access publishing fee is $95.

Embargo/Hold Information

You have the option of restricting access to your manuscript for up to two years. If you choose to delay access, your work will default to whichever publishing method you have selected at the expiration of the embargo.

Copyright Registration

There is a fee for Copyright registration (an optional service). You automatically own the copyright to your electronic work as soon as it is published without any special requirement of notice or registration. International copyright law provides full protection and establishment of the author’s rights. However, ProQuest offers an additional copyright registration service that registers your copyright, establishes your claim to copyright, and provides certain protections if your copyright is violated. This means that ProQuest will submit your application to the United States Copyright on your behalf and provide you with the certificate from the Library of Congress. The cost to have ProQuest register your copyright with the Library of Congress is $55.

There is no submission fee for submitting your document electronically through ProQuest/UMI. The publishing fee is waived when submitting electronically. The only required charge when submitting your manuscript is $30 for a hard-bound copy to be kept at the Chester Fritz Library. A credit card is required to place this order. You may also choose to order personal bound copies of your manuscript during the submission process for an additional fee.

All costs for the manuscript or optional services is subject to change without notice.

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You are required to purchase, thru ProQuest, one copy of your thesis/dissertation that will be mailed to the UND Chester Fritz Library. Be aware that they are printed double-sided, so margins may need to be adjusted. 

Additional copies may be ordered through ProQuest or you may order personal copies through a third-party site. The Chester Fritz Library no longer offers binding services.

Survey of Earned Doctorates (Ph.D. Students Only) ( Open this section)

This survey is for Ph.D. Students only, this does not apply to Ed.D. or D.A. students.

• Ph.D. students need to complete the   Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED)   online.
• The School of Graduate Studies, as well as yourself, will receive a confirmation email after you have completed the survey

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Past Graduate Students and their PhD Dissertations

Links to pdfs are provided for many of the dissertations listed below. Others can usually be obtained from UMI dissertation services or the University of Michigan.

• “Optimizing Emerging Graph Applications Using Hardware-Software Co-Design”, Nishil Talati, The University of Michigan, 2022. [ pdf ] (Co-chairman Ronald G. Dreslinski Jr. ) Current position: Assistant Research Scientist Dept Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [ pic ] Nishil c. 2022
• “Optimizing Sparse Linear Algebra on Reconfigurable Architecture” , Dong-hyeon Park, The University of Michigan, 2021. [ pdf ] Current position: Military service in the Republic of Korea Army. [ pic ] Dong-hyeon c. 2021
• “Rethinking Context Management of Data Parallel Processors in an Era of Irregular Computing”, Jonathan Beaumont, The University of Michigan, 2019. [ pdf ] Current position: Lecturer IV Dept Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [ pic ] Jon c. 2019
• “Architecting Memory System for Emerging Technologies” , Byoungchan Oh, The University of Michigan, 2017. (Co-chairman Ronald G. Dreslinski Jr. ) [pdf]   Current position: Memory Architect, Intel Federal LLC. [ pic ] Byounchan c. 2017
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Reimagining Design with Nature: ecological urbanism in Moscow

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The twenty-first century is the era when populations of cities will exceed rural communities for the first time in human history. The population growth of cities in many countries, including those in transition from planned to market economies, is putting considerable strain on ecological and natural resources. This paper examines four central issues: (a) the challenges and opportunities presented through working in jurisdictions where there are no official or established methods in place to guide regional, ecological and landscape planning and design; (b) the experience of the author’s practice—Gillespies LLP—in addressing these challenges using techniques and methods inspired by McHarg in Design with Nature in the Russian Federation in the first decade of the twenty-first century; (c) the augmentation of methods derived from Design with Nature in reference to innovations in technology since its publication and the contribution that the art of landscape painters can make to landscape analysis and interpretation; and (d) the application of this experience to the international competition and colloquium for the expansion of Moscow. The text concludes with a comment on how the application of this learning and methodological development to landscape and ecological planning and design was judged to be a central tenant of the winning design. Finally, a concluding section reflects on lessons learned and conclusions drawn.

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