EDUC: Submitting Your Dissertation

Congratulations on completing your dissertation and achieving this significant accomplishment!

This guide helps with the final steps in the process -- submitting your dissertation to the University Library's Scholar Commons and to ProQuest ETD.

Questions along the way? Reach out to your Education Librarian or SCU Library's Ask a Librarian service for support.

Start by reviewing the SCU Library's graduate thesis submission guidelines, which covers process, requirements, policy, and format details.

Theses and dissertations completed in partial fulfillment of a graduate degree at Santa Clara University must be deposited electronically with the University Archives and made publicly available by the SCU Library through the Scholar Commons repository.

Scholar Commons archives and offers open access to intellectual work produced by faculty, students, and staff at SCU. Contents include open access publications, student projects, theses, dissertations, pre-print and post-print articles, instructional resources, data sets, and university archival material.

Questions about Scholar Commons? Email scholarcommons@scu.edu.

Doctoral candidates must also submit a copy of their dissertation to ProQuest. You'll use ProQuest ETD Administrator to submit your work to SCU and it will ultimately be included in the database Dissertation & Theses Global. This database is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research in the United States.

Questions about ProQuest ETD? Start by exploring the ProQuest ETD tab on this guide for more help and FAQs.