51³Ô¹ÏPro graduate students began submitting their theses and dissertations electronically (ETDs) in 2016. Because these unique research resources are available globally through the University's institutional repository , our ETDs have been downloaded more than any other collection in the repository.
To expand on this success, the Graduate School purchased digital copies of 2,488 pre-2016 dissertations and theses from ProQuest. The Libraries completed a project to add these files to 51³Ô¹ÏPro Digital Commons, further increasing 51³Ô¹ÏPro's research visibility. There are now more than 3,400 electronic theses and dissertations available, and they have been downloaded more than 250,000 times.
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Since Master's theses were not required to go to ProQuest (UMI), pre-2016 theses are only available in print. We hope to digitize these approximately 2,200 items, and add them to the repository, so that the full scope of 51³Ô¹ÏPro graduate scholarship is available worldwide. In the meantime, if you have an approved, electronic copy of your pre-2016 51³Ô¹ÏPro Master's thesis, we'd love to make it available. Please send it to Karen Vaughan at kvaughan@odu.edu.