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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
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<p><i>ProQuest Dissertations and Theses</i> (<i>PQDT</i>) is an online database that <a href="/facts/Index_(publishing)/amN9DI6s">indexes</a>, <a href="/facts/Abstract_(summary)/e5gdBf1N">abstracts</a>, and provides <a href="/facts/Full-text_database/DXWPvH2t">full-text</a> access to <a href="/facts/Dissertation/dYnTaYqQ">dissertations</a> and <a href="/facts/Thesis/dYnTaYqQ">theses</a>. The database includes over 2.4 million records and covers 1637 to the present. It is produced by <a href="/facts/ProQuest/yoBIhGBy">ProQuest</a> and was formerly known as <i>ProQuest Digital Dissertations</i>. The bibliographic database (without full-text dissertations) is known as Dissertation Abstracts or Dissertation Abstracts International. </p><p>PQDT annually publishes more than 90% of all dissertations submitted from accredited institutions of higher learning in North America as well as from colleges and universities in Europe and Asia. Over the past 60 years, PQDT has amassed more than 1.4 million titles beginning with the first U.S. dissertation accepted by a university (<a href="/facts/Yale_University/KUdS6jt1">Yale</a>) in 1861. ProQuest began digitizing dissertations in 1997 from a microform archive. </p><p>In October 2015, ProQuest added the ability for authors to include an <a href="/facts/ORCID/Xe65WNUb">ORCID</a> identifier when submitting a thesis. </p>