Are any of you out there responsible for thesis and/or dissertation submission at your universities?  We use Proquest for everything except the binding.  For the bound copy (required for our library), we use a local bindery. 

Some of our students are getting the idea that they do not need to publish their thesis or dissertation, but that they can simply submit an original to us (the library) for binding.  This circumvents Proquest (and fees) completely, creating a situation whereby the work is not in our Proquest “Current Research@Hofstrta” database.  I think students are required to publish their work (in our case, through Proquest), but I am unable to find definitive documentation stating this.  What do the rest of your do?  Do you require students to publish their theses/dissertations?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Sally

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Sarah (Sally) Glasser

Serials/Electronic Resources Librarian

022B Axinn Library

123 Hofstra University

Hempstead, NY  11549

Tel: 516-463-5959