Submit your dissertation electronically

Submit your dissertation electronically

  • You must submit your dissertation to the Graduate School and upload your warrant by the deadline in order to graduate in the final term in which you are enrolled.
  • If the Graduate School requires formatting changes after the dissertation has been submitted, you will receive an email explaining what you must do.
  • Regarding the timing, you will need to follow the instructions in the email as soon as possible.
  • Your official deposit date will be the date you initially submit your dissertation, even if you have to make changes and resubmit.

Submit your dissertation by the deadline in order to graduate

  • You must submit your dissertation to the Graduate School and upload your warrant by the deadline in order to graduate in the final term in which you are enrolled.

Enter a current, active email address

When you create an account to submit your dissertation, be sure and enter an email address that you check regularly in order to receive notifications from the Graduate School about your dissertation status.

Registration of copyright

  • Registration of copyright, a public record of your copyright, is optional.
  • If you ever litigate, it is important to be covered for attorney fees and damages.
  • If you would like to select this option, it will cost $55, which you will when you submit your dissertation, which will be sent to the Library of Congress and you will receive a certificate from the Library of Congress.

Publishing your dissertation

  • After your dissertation has been accepted at the Graduate School, we will deliver it simultaneously to ProQuest and Memorial Library. 
  • ProQuest will allow web indexing services like Google and Google Books to make a copy of the dissertation.
  • UW Library will automatically receive the digital texts from ProQuest and make them available in Madcat.
  • They are kept behind net ID for one year, which means they are only available to campus community.
  • After that year, UW Library allows Google and Google Books to index and capture dissertations in full text.
  • One year after you deposit your dissertation at the Graduate School, Memorial Library strives to make it free, open, and potentially searchable on Google.

Embargoes/Delayed Release

  • An embargo or delayed release means you withhold your dissertation from public view.
  • You may choose to embargo your dissertation for 6 months, 1 year, or 2 years.
  • If you want 3 years, you can mention this in a textbox note.
  • No special permission is needed for up to 3 years.
  • If you would like to embargo your dissertation for more than 3 years, you will need to request special permission from the AD in writing, not at the time of your final review, but about a month before the 3-year embargo expires. You will need to provide proof from a publisher that more time is needed.
  • The Graduate School will not release the dissertation to ProQuest or Memorial Library until the embargo period is over.
  • If you choose an embargo, there will be no public record of your dissertation while it is held at the Graduate School.

Delayed Release and ordering a bound copy of your dissertation from ProQuest

  • If you order a bound copy of your dissertation for yourself through ProQuest, you will not receive it until your dissertation is released to ProQuest at the end of the embargo period.

Where to submit

Go to the following website to submit your dissertation:

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