AUC Woodruff Library gathers and archives master’s theses and doctoral dissertations to ensure that the scholarly works of graduate students at Clark Atlanta University are preserved and accessible.
To electronically submit theses and dissertations, authors must garner approval from Graduate Education before gaining access to the ETD Submission Tool. Final versions of approved electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) should be uploaded as a word document and adhere to copyright as stated in Clark Atlanta University’s Guidelines for Submitting Electronic Theses and Dissertations on the CAU Thesis & Dissertation Website.
Electronic theses and dissertations are freely available for viewing and downloading from the library’s institutional repository (RADAR). Authors wishing to restrict access can contact GraduateEducation@cau.edu to request an embargo. An embargo request indicates that an author does not wish to have their work accessible for a specified period of time.
For additional information contact: dsd@auctr.edu
The following is a direct link below for students to submit work for publishing through the ProQuest ETD Administrator website:
https://www.etdadmin.com/pqdirect
This submission site was setup for students submitting their work without assistance from their university; although it is strongly suggested that students contact the graduate administrative office for any guidelines they may have about publishing their dissertation/thesis.
Submission instructions and associated costs:
To get started, the student will need to create an account to submit work online. After the work has been submitted, the ProQuest publishing team will review and electronically deliver the final dissertation/thesis to ProQuest for publishing. The ProQuest publishing process takes about 4-6 weeks to complete from the date delivered. Please note, the Traditional Publishing option is free. There is a one-time serve charge of $95.00 for Open Access Publishing. Payment is made through the ETD site during the submission process.
If the student will be pre-ordering bound copies of their graduate work through the ETD site, print copies are made after publishing is completed. It takes approximately 8-10 weeks to print and ship books once publishing is completed. The student will receive notification via email and a tracking number when their package is sent to FedEx for shipping and no signature required. Author discount pricing is available on the ETD site and online at https://about.proquest.com/en/dissertations/dissertation-copy-options/
Finally, if the student would like to copyright their work, it generally takes the U.S. Copyright Office a few months to process a new registration and it is mailed directly to the copyright holder's address. The cost for this service is $75.00 USD. Here is a link to their website that shows current processing times:
https://www.copyright.gov/registration/docs/processing-times-faqs.pdf
The CAU Graduate program will only grant an embargo if a student: 1) has a publication deal or 2) has time-sensitive research with a governing agency. If either of these purposes are relevant, the student must provide the publication deal or governing agency that will be willing to provide a letter of support.
If there are further questions, contact: GraduateEducation@cau.edu
In academia, an "embargo" is a restriction placed on a thesis or dissertation that allows only the title, abstract, and citation information to be released to the public, while the full-text of work is kept hidden for a limited period of time. An Embargo typically lasts from one to five years following the publication of a thesis or dissertation via the college or university's Institutional Repository. Since every school has a different set of rules about whether and how theses and dissertations can be embargoed, you are urged to contact the CAU Graduate Center for further information about the process and approval of an embargo request. Most theses and dissertations are not embargoed, and are made publicly available following their formal defense as part of completing a masters or doctoral degree.
Wonder where your electronic thesis or dissertation (ETD) will be housed after final submission? Interested in learning more about a Handle link that is attached to your final thesis or dissertation? Would you like to know how many page views your ETD has received since it was uploaded to RADAR? Check out this tour of RADAR to find out more hints to searching ETDs within our Institutional Repository at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library.
The timeline for ETD Submissions is available on the CAU Graduate Education website, here:
