ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: ProQuest and Publishing

• Arizona State University
• Boston University
• Brandeis University
• Brown University
• California Institute of Technology
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Colorado State University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• CUNY Graduate Center
• Dartmouth College
• Duke University
• Emory University
• Florida State University
• George Washington University
• Georgetown University
• Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
• Georgia State University
• Harvard University
• Indiana University Bloomington
• Iowa State University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Louisiana State University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Michigan State University
• Mississippi State University
• Montana State University
• New York University
• North Carolina State University
• North Dakota State University-Main Campus
• Northwestern University
• Ohio State University-Main Campus
• Oregon State University
• Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
• Princeton University
• Purdue University-Main Campus
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Rice University
• Rockefeller University
• Rutgers–New Brunswick
• Stanford University
• Stony Brook University
• Texas A&M University
• Tufts University
• Tulane University of Louisiana
• University at Albany, SUNY
• University at Buffalo
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• University of Alabama in Huntsville
• University of Arizona
• University of Arkansas
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Riverside
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of Central Florida
• University of Chicago
• University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
• University of Colorado Boulder
• University of Connecticut
• University of Delaware
• University of Florida
• University of Georgia
• University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• University of Houston
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• University of Iowa
• University of Kansas
• University of Kentucky
• University of Louisville
• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Miami
• University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
• University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
• University of Missouri
• University of Nebraska–Lincoln
• University of New Mexico-Main Campus
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus
• University of Oregon
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
• University of Rochester
• University of South Carolina
• University of South Florida-Tampa Campus
• University of Southern California
• University of Tennessee
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Utah
• University of Virginia-Main Campus
• University of Washington-Seattle Campus
• University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Vanderbilt University
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Virginia Polytechnic University
• Washington State University
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Wayne State University
• Yale University

None - they all use ProQuest

These peer institutions submit dissertations and theses to the ProQuest database. Below are links to webpage or documents that discuss the requirements to submit a thesis or dissertation to ProQuest for each institution.

Howard, J. (2012). Putting dissertation online isn't an obstacle to print publication, surveys find. Chronicle of Higher Education, 59(17), 12-12.

Summarizes the two articles below by Ramirez and others.

Ramirez, M. L., Dalton, J. T., McMillan, G., Read, M., & Seamans, N. H. (2013). Do open access electronic theses and dissertations diminish publishing opportunities in the social sciences and humanities? Findings from a 2011 survey of academic publishers. College & Research Libraries, 74(4), 368-380. doi: 10.5860/crl-356

• Editors-in-Chief and academic press directors were surveyed.
• Journals chosen were the top journals in each category within Thomson-Reuters' Journal Performance Indicators in Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities.
• 82.8% of academic presses and journal editors would accept submissions based on electronically available theses and dissertations at least on a case-by-case basis.
• There is widespread belief by publishers that dissertations and theses need to be revised for publication because the audiences for dissertations and theses are different from those for journal articles.

Ramirez, M. L., McMillan, G., Dalton, J. T., Hanlon, A., Smith, H. S., & Kern, C. (2014). Do open access electronic theses and dissertations diminish publishing opportunities in the sciences? College & Research Libraries, 75(6), 808-821. doi: 10.5860/crl.75.6.808

• Editors-in-Chief of scientific journals were surveyed
• Sample from the top journals in each category within Thomson-Reuter's Journal Performance Indicators in Science
• 70.8% of journal editors said they would accept submissions based on electronically available theses and dissertations at least on a case-by-case basis.
• 8.3% said they would accept submissions if the articles were substantially different from the electronically available thesis or dissertation.
• Medical journals in the sample were the least likely to accept submissions based on electronically available theses or dissertations.
• The sample was not large enough to support this as a generalization - the conclusion needs to be researched further.