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 (Yale) in 1861.
[3] In October 2015, ProQuest added the ability for authors to include an ORCID identifier when submitting a thesis.
It is divided in three sections: The usability of dissertation abstracts depends largely on their content.
Many journals within the medical community have settled on a seven sentence structure, which is also gaining acceptance in the social sciences, education and business.