Institutional Repository Support

WashU Scholarly Repository is the institutional repository for Washington University in St. Louis. Maintained by the Scholarly Communication & Digital Publishing Services Department within the WashU Libraries, it provides free and open access to the scholarly and creative output of faculty, staff, and students by gathering it in one place.

The repository focuses on making the work of the WashU community openly available to the wider world. Content includes graduate theses and dissertations, reports and white papers from university centers, faculty research, undergraduate honors theses, and special course projects.

For more information about the Scholarly Repository, contact Repository Services Manager Emily Stenberg or email Scholarly Communication & Digital Publishing Services at [email protected].

For information on hosting data in the WashU Research Data (WURD) repository, please reach out to Data Services.

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Doctoral Dissertation Submission Information

Dissertation policies are administered through the Vice Provost of Graduate Education’s office. Doctoral candidates on the Danforth campus submit their dissertations through their individual schools to ProQuest. Contact your school’s registrar’s office for more information.

Master’s Thesis Submission Information

Master’s theses are submitted directly to the WashU Libraries repository and are reviewed by the appropriate school registrar. Anyone who submits a thesis will first need to create a free account using the following four steps:

1. Create an account through Elsevier Digital Commons on the Scholarly Repository by selecting My Account/Sign up.
2. Provide an email address, your full name, and a password. You do not have to use your WashU email address, but you should use one you check regularly.
3. After you sign up, you will receive a confirmation email with a link you must click to activate your account.
4. If you have successfully created an account and logged in, the Scholarly Repository site should take you to your My Account page. You can submit your thesis to the appropriate collection (series) from here. Contact your school’s registrar’s office for more information on submission requirements.

WashU Dissertations & Theses

• Scholarly Repository (2009 – ) | Beginning in 2009, all theses and dissertations completed at WashU must be submitted in electronic form. Dissertations are submitted directly to UMI/Proquest Dissertation Services; Master’s theses are locally submitted to the Scholarly Repository.
• Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis (1996-) | Full-text. Citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by WashU and published in UMI’s Dissertation Abstracts database. View 24-page previews of dissertations and theses and download the full-text.
• WashU Classic Catalog | To limit to dissertations and theses, modify the search and add title=theses and/or author=Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.).
• Quick Search | Researchers may find dissertations when filtering the Resource Type by Dissertations.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I (1743-) | The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions since 1743, updated monthly. View 24-page previews of dissertations and theses and download the full text. Abstracts are included from July 1980; abstracts for master’s theses begin in Spring 1988.
  
  Not all universities require doctoral candidates to submit their dissertations to this database. For the most comprehensive search, include other sources. Learn more about the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database.
  
  Note: Researchers cannot request full-text dissertations or theses from the ProQuest database. To request full-text dissertations or theses found on the ProQuest database, log in to ILLiad, select Request a Thesis, and complete the form.

Finding WashU Dissertations and Theses FAQs

• Are WashU theses and dissertations available to users at other institutions through Interlibrary Loan?
• How can I read a dissertation or thesis (an ETD) that is embargoed in the Scholarly Repository?
• How do I find WashU theses and dissertations?
• Read more FAQs on the Dissertation & Theses Ask Us thread

Submitting WashU Dissertations & Theses FAQs

• How do I embargo my thesis or dissertation?
• How can I make my thesis or dissertation available online?
• Should I embargo my thesis or dissertation?
• Read more FAQs for submitting WashU dissertations and/or theses

Submitting Undergraduate Honors Theses or Capstone Projects

Undergraduate Honors Theses or Capstone Projects may be submitted to the Scholarly Repository Senior Honors Papers/Undergraduate Theses collection using the Submit Research option under the Author Corner on the Scholarly Repository main menu.

Department or school-specific collections are at:

• Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers (Sam Fox School)
• Olin Business School, Honors in Management
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Honors Papers

Students may choose Restricted (campus-only) or Unrestricted (worldwide) access. Administrators do not review content before posting it and making it available online. Please ensure you have reviewed the content with your mentor(s) to confirm that you are authorized to include all the content, including data, in your submission.