The amount of time between submission and availability depends upon any embargoes or access restrictions you have requested. The review and approval processes vary considerably among the graduate schools. For more information on the status of your ETD, please contact your ETD Student Services Staff Member.

If you have selected an embargo, your ETD will only be visible to University of Pittsburgh users with an active computing account (because D-Scholarship requires a login for accessing embargoed files). This will prevent your ETD from being read by those outside of the university - including you, once you graduate!

In ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses Global database, the full text of your ETD will only be available to users with a subscription depending on the publishing options you have selected.

Select your embargo period very carefully.