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ProQuest is the website USF uses to facilitate the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Review. It saves all versions of the ETD, and allows us to work with you on revising your document to meet the format requirements. 

To start, you'll need to create a new account and then upload your thesis or dissertation in PDF format for review. You will receive a confirmation email once you've submitted the ETD.

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NOTE: Please double-check your inbox and spam folder for emails from ProQuest before reaching out to the ETD Administrators for an update on your submission.

Making Revisions & Submitting the Revised ETD

If the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) requires modifications to the submitted ETD, the student will receive an email with instructions on how to view the requested revisions. In order to see the comments, download the PDF, containing the ETD Administrator's commentary, from ProQuest and then open it. 

NOTE: Make the needed revisions in the Word or LaTeX document you originally used. Do not try to make corrections to the ProQuest PDF or try to save the PDF as a Word document. Doing so messes with the formatting and makes it nearly impossible to make the corrections. We strongly suggest saving the revised word document as a new copy so that you have the original version. This protects your work if anything happens to the document as you revise it.

The student must make all corrections and resubmit the corrected ETD to ProQuest at least a few days before the OGS deadline. 

Be sure to click all "Submit Revision" confirmations within ProQuest – this lets us know you are ready for your revisions to be annotated!

The Office of Graduate Studies will then re-review the corrected ETD as described above. 

Reviews may require an additional 5-7 business days - depending on the current number of ETDs in review and the level of revision required.

Late ETD Submission

ETDs submitted after the respective deadline without an extension request form from the Dean of Graduate Studies may not be processed for that semester's graduation. You may have to register again in the following semester.

Publishing Options - Embargo

An Embargo allows students to withhold the release of their ETD for one year (1Y) . Reasons for an embargo include patentable rights; sensitive/classified information; interest of academic/commercial press in acquiring the rights to publish as a book; or content likely to be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.

If you would like to embargo your ETD for one year, you must select the correct option in ProQuest.

ProQuest Asks: Delaying Release “Do you want your work to be available in ProQuest as soon as it is published?” Choose either:

○ Yes (Immediate Worldwide Access – No Embargo) ○ No (One-Year Embargo)

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Doctoral Dissertation Submission

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To be eligible for graduation, doctoral students must submit their dissertations for publication to both  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and the Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository .  

Before your document is published, it may require additional review and preparation; please check the Dissertations Formatting Guidelines for each school:

• Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education & Administration --  Formatting Guidelines
• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
• Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies --  Formatting Guidelines (revised, May 2021)
• Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology --  Formatting Guidelines
• Katz School of Science and Health --  Formatting Guidelines
• Wurzweiler School of Social Work --  Formatting Guidelines

You can contact Wilf Campus Writing Center or Beren Campus Writing Center if you need help.

In addition, ProQuest's Preparing Your Manuscript guide offers additional information on formatting the PDF. ProQuest ETD Administrator Resources and Guidelines  web page offers several guides to assist you in preparing your PDF, choosing publishing options, learning about copyright considerations and more.

* Please contact the Office of the Registrar before submitting the dissertations.

When you are certain your graduation status is approved by the Office of the Registrar , please follow these steps to complete the publication process.

• Go to https://www.etdadmin.com/main/home?siteId=933 and create an account.​ Some items to have on hand: A PDF copy of your dissertation/thesis. This must be a single file. If your manuscript is in Word or RTF format, we can convert it into a PDF. Abstract Optional Supplementary files (images, data, etc.) that are an integral part of the​ dissertation/thesis but not part of the full text. Advisor and other Committee Members' Names Subject Categories - 1 - 3 that best describe your dissertation/thesis' subject area. ( Subject Category List )
• Choose your ProQuest publication type a. Traditional Publishing (Free): your thesis will only be viewable to an individual or institutional ProQuest subscribers b. Open Access Publishing PLUS ($95.00): your thesis will be available freely to internet users via ProQuest databases. You don't need to pay for Open Access Publishing Plus because you can choose Open Access in Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository publishing Options.
• Choose your IR ( Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository ) publishing Options Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository, an Open Access database, searchable via Google Scholar, makes our scholarship available to researchers freely via the internet.
• Purchase bound copies
• Optional: Copyright Registration ProQuest offers the optional service of registering your copyright on your behalf. The dissertation author owns the copyright to their dissertation regardless of copyright registration.

Thank you for contributing your scholarship to the library’s print and digital collections.  If, for any reason, you would like your dissertation or thesis excluded from the Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository, please e-mail [email protected] with your request.

Whether publishing to ProQuest or the Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository , please understand that you , the author, retain copyright to your work. 

For more information on copyright, including avoiding copyright infringement in your dissertation or thesis, see this guide from ProQuest: https://media2.proquest.com/documents/UMI_CopyrightGuide.pdf

Once your dissertation has been published by ProQuest (please wait for the email notification from ProQuest), you may place an order for copies directly through your ProQuest ETD student account, or order from ProQuest Dissertation Copy Options .

Please note that you can always contact Customer Service at ProQuest to order more copies.

Please refer to ProQuest Dissertation/Thesis Correction Policy . The library will update the PDF file in YAIR.

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