About the ProQuest Author Agreement formProquest Author Agreement • January 30th, 2008
All doctoral students pay a $45 dissertation microfilming fee at the time that they pay their Graduation Fees. This fee goes to ProQuest Information and Learning (PQIL), a corporation that will microfilm and archive the dissertation as well as assign it a unique ISBN and create a bibliographic record for distribution to resources such as OCLC, Silver Platter, STN and Dialog.