How Long Before My Dissertation is Published?
The Library does not release your dissertation to ProQuest until just before your graduation. We do this so any last-minute changes to formatting can be accommodated before we release it to ProQuest.
When the Library releases a dissertation for publication, the dissertation is locked. If changes are needed after release for publication, the student author must work with ProQuest directly to do so, and ProQuest charges fees to make changes.
If you have any substantial changes to the intellectual content of your dissertation after approval, it is your responsibility to discuss that with your advisor and committee.
Once the Library administrator releases your dissertation for publication by ProQuest, you can expect that it will be about 6-8 weeks for you receive the printed copies you may have ordered.
But It will only be about 4 weeks until ...
- your dissertation's bibliographic information will begin to appear in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses service and in Google Scholar results;
- your full-text dissertation will be available for download or viewing on the PQDT platform,
And your dissertation take its place as part of the scholarly conversation of education!
