When you submit your dissertation or thesis, the Grad School in turn submits it to ProQuest for processing. This process can take from 3-6 months. Once everything is complete, your dissertation or thesis will become available in ProQuest Dissertations and These, and in UDSpace, the University's institutional repository. If necessary, embargos can be put in place.
Dissertations & Theses @ University of Delaware (ProQuest)
Graduate College Collections (UDSpace)
Traditional publishing:
ProQuest Open Access publishing:
NOTE: Since your dissertation is going into UDSpace, it will be openly available anyway!
ProQuest has copyright guidelines that you need to follow in order for your work to appear on their dissertation and theses database.
You must use materials that:
For their complete guidelines, please see Copyright and Your Dissertation or Thesis (opens as a PDF). Please contact your subject librarian if you have questions about materials you want to include in your dissertation or thesis.
The University of Delaware's manual for formatting dissertations and theses can be accessed here: https://www.udel.edu/content/dam/udelImages/grad-college/graduate-college-pdfs/UD-Thesis-Manual-7-19.pdf
UD's ProQuest ETD submission portal
UD's steps to graduation information for graduate students: https://www.udel.edu/academics/colleges/grad/current-students/academic-support/steps-to-graduation/