UMI Formatting Requirements
Before submitting your dissertation or thesis for publishing, please make sure it is formatted correctly, as outlined below.
Submit as a PDF
The manuscript of your dissertation or thesis must be submitted to ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing in Adobe PDF format. When preparing your PDF, be sure to do the following:
- Embed all fonts
- Make sure there is no password protection on the PDF
- Ensure that security settings allow printing
Verify Proper Formatting
ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing makes no changes to the formatting or content of submitted manuscripts. Therefore, the burden of how the manuscript looks when it is accessed or printed is entirely the responsibility of the author. ProQuest/UMI strongly recommends that individual authors take responsibility for reformatting the document into Adobe PDF, for checking the reformatted document for accuracy, and for submitting the PDF document to the graduate school or library for publication.
Supplementary Materials
If supplementary materials - like audio, video, and spreadsheets - are part of your dissertation or thesis, you can submit them as supplementary files during the online submission process. Upload them as part of the submission process, and provide a description of each supplementary file or files in the abstract of your graduate work.
- Do not embed media files in your PDF:
Media files significantly increase the size of the PDF, making it difficult to download and access
- Upload media files as supplementary files:<p>During online submission, you will be asked to upload any supplementary files.
During online submission, you will be asked to upload any supplementary files.
- Describes files in your abstract:
Add a description of each supplementary file in your abstract.
Supporting Documentation for Supplementary Materials
In the situations below, including supplementary materials with your submission will require additional paper documentation before we can complete the publishing process.
- Reprint Permission Letters:
If you are going to include multimedia material covered under someone else's copyright - an audio or video clip, a digital photograph, etc. - you must provide us with written permission to include it.
- Third Party Software Licenses (if needed):
If you are including third party software with your submission, you must provide written permission to distribute it. Note that this is different than including a file generated by a particular program - i.e., including a copy of Microsoft Excel is different than including an .xls file generated in Excel. You do not need a software license to include an .xls file.
Additional paper documentation, when required, can be mailed to us at:
UMI Dissertation Publishing
ProQuest CSA
789 E. Eisenhower Parkway
P.O. Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346
