Open Access is a term used to describe content that a reader can access free of charge. With the new UMI® Open Access publishing service, graduate students can now publish their dissertations and theses with ProQuest on an open access basis, significantly increasing the reach of their research.

What are the benefits of Open Access publishing?
Open Access publishing guarantees the widest possible exposure of your graduate research. It can also help ensure that the officially published version of your dissertation or thesis is the most widely available version in the primary literature.
In addition to the standard features of our Traditional publishing service - rigorous quality assurance, assignment of an ISBN, permanent storage in our microfilm vault, and so on - the Open Access publishing service includes the following:

• Free, public access to your graduate work in PQDT Open, our online repository of Open Access graduate works.
• Free access to the citation, abstract, full text (including supplimentary files) for your graduate works for all institutional subscribers to ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), the database of record for graduate research.

How does Open Access publishing compare with ProQuest's Traditional publishing service?
Read more here about the details and see a comparison chart showing the benefits of our Open Access and Traditional Publishing services (downloadable PDF).

Where can I find out more?
Check out our Open Access Publishing FAQ.

You can also contact us via email at scholarlypublishing@proquest.com with additional questions.