Am I required to submit my dissertation to ProQuest?
Answer
As a condition of degree conferral, all doctoral students are encouraged to submit their final and approved dissertation manuscript to ProQuest, National University’s approved dissertation manuscript publisher.
Upon receipt of a signed Dissertation Defense Verification Attendance Form from the Dissertation Chair (or other designee), the University Library will email the Doctoral Dissertation Publishing instructions to the specific students listed on the form received.
Students must create an account with ProQuest in order to publish their dissertation manuscript. It is recommended that students use their personal email address to create this account instead of their student email address. Students may elect to buy additional services from ProQuest, such as copyright services or binding of dissertation copies; these are not required for graduation.
Students can request to have the dissertation bound through ProQuest; this is not a requirement for graduation nor are additional paper copies of the dissertation manuscript.
Please note that before the final dissertation manuscript is approved and sent to ProQuest for publishing, the university Library will send an Approval Page to the student’s Dissertation Chair and Committee Members through Adobe Sign. Once the signed Approval Page is received, it is added to the student’s dissertation manuscript. Only after the signed approval page is received will the Library be able to upload the edited dissertation manuscript to ProQuest and send it for publishing.
