The accepted thesis or dissertation is considered one's scholarly contribution to City College and CUNY. Students self-submit their work to CUNY Academic Works digital repository and, in the case of Ph.D students, the ProQuest Thesis and Dissertations A&I database to make it available to the scholarly community. Submitting your work makes it available to others engaged research in the same area of study to find, use, and cite your scholarly work. This guide is your access point for submitting and finding City College theses and dissertations.
CUNY Academic Works is the official repository for research, scholarship, creative, and pedagogical work for all of CUNY. Your advisor can provide you with information about City College's requirements for submission. For works under embargo, Academic Works allows CUNY scholars to set a date of release. Academic Works requires that you set up an account to upload your work.
Find the step by step process for submitting to Academic Works on the Submission Instruction tab above.
Only the Grove School of Engineering PhD candidates are required to submit their dissertations to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses A&I database. This ProQuest resource is the most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world.
Find the step by step process for submitting to the Proquest Dissertations Database on the Submission Instruction tab.
Please be sure you will have at least 15 minutes of uninterrupted access to the internet to complete each submission.
Before you start the deposit process, you will need
Master's theses and Dissertations are deposited in CUNY Academic Works. Grove School of Engineering Dissertations are also deposited in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses database
You can embargo (temporarily block public online access) to your dissertation or thesis in neither, either, or both databases — it’s up to you. If you embargo in both databases, you can select the same embargo length for both or choose different embargo lengths. For both databases, your initial embargo options are:
Embargoed dissertations and theses are not completely invisible or inaccessible.
If you want to change your embargo settings after you've deposited or graduated, you must contact ProQuest and the City College Library separately.
Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual by Jill Cirasella and Polly Thistlethwaite. This chapter was originally published in: Smith, K. L., & Dickson, K. A. (Eds.). (2017). Open access and the future of scholarly communication: Implementation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Hear and read some key thoughts from the CUNY Graduate Center's event “Share It Now or Save It For Later: Making Choices about Dissertations and Publishing,” featuring the MLA's Director of Scholarly Communications, two university press editors, and two alumni.
Content credit: Roxanne Shirazi, CUNY Graduate Center
If you have questions about depositing your work that your advisor cannot answer, please contact the appropriate person in your school or division.
Division or School | Name | Title | |
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Division of Humanities and the Arts | Migen Prifti | Director of Graduate Advising | mprifti@ccny.cuny.edu |
Grove School of Engineering | Belkys Bodre | Director of Graduate Affairs | bbodre@ccny.cuny.edu |
Division of Science | Elizabeth Rudolph | Assistant Dean | erudolph@ccny.cuny.edu |
Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership | Charlene Darbassie | Assistant, Office of the Dean | cdarbassie@ccny.cuny.edu |
The Center for Worker Education | Susanna Rosenbaum | Director, MA in the Study of the Americas | srosenbaum@ccny.cuny.edu |
Theses and dissertations dated from the last ten years can be found on CUNY Academic Works.
City College content can be searched and downloaded from the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses A&I. Search by entering a name, title, or subject into the search field. Advanced search offers a windowpane of search fields you can use for focused search. Browse over 200 City College items by entering the School ID 1606.
Search author names or titles in CCNY's OneSearch discovery tool. Copy the record information and request the bound copies at the Circulation Desk in the Library where the item is located. If you need assistance, ask a librarian.