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Taking the Bang Out of the Gang: The Impact of Catholic Schools on Gang Homicides in El Salvador , Ann Jillian Villanueva Adona
Financial Literacy and Aspirations: Experimental Evidence from Eastern Uganda , Ester Agasha
EVALUATING CLIMATE MIGRATION THROUGH DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK AND “EL PROGRESO” COMMUNITY BLOG , Olusola Akanni
SPORT AS A MEANS OF EMANCIPATION: A GLOBAL FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE, EXPLORING THE CASE STUDY OF SAHRAWI ATHLETE INMA ZANOGUERA , Olivia Alexandre
What The Stork Brought: Endogenous Fertility Preferences , Lucas Fortier Borden
The Investigation of the Reaction of 2,3-Dimethylfuran With O(³P) and the Estimate of the Photoionization Cross Section of C-Cl and Absolute Photoionization Cross Sections of Chlorinated Organic Compounds , Yilan Lori Chen
vrouwENwerk | BEyondTheGlassCeiling: Educate, Empower, Reimagine , Malou Lena Julia Desplenter
Early Career Women of Color as Social Justice Change Leaders , Amy Anh Hoang Dinh
Can aspiration and financial literacy interventions relieve internal constraints? Evidence from Uganda and India , Veronika Divis
Carnistic Colonialism and Yellow Peril Rhetoric: Analyzing U.S. Media Framing of Chinese Animal Consumption During COVID-19 , Maia Earnshaw
The impact of refractive error correction on harvest productivity in the Guatemalan coffee sector , Bryce C. Everett
Comfortability in the Latino and Hispanic Community , Vanessa Flores
Investigating Racial Disparities within Maternal Health care in the United States: How Race, Socioeconomic Status and Geographic Location Affect quality and access to Maternal Health Care , Olivia Clopton Foster
Differential Impacts of COVID-19 Policy Enforcement on Food Security Dynamics , Shiv Gargé
Undocumented and Unsupported: How College Students Navigate to Meet their Basic Needs , Mario Alberto Gonzalez
Does Trust Influence Being Generous? An Empirical Study Across Five Countries , Andrew Hall
Labors of Love and Loss: Exploring Relationships in Remitting Latine-American Families , Sequoyah SV Hilton
Knowledge Production and the Unthinkable: Weaving Stories of Art, Gender, and Land , Christin Huntsman
The Impact of Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) on Child Nutrition in Marsabit County, Kenya , Jackson Kadyampakeni
Online ESL / EFL Instruction for Korean Children Under 7 Years Old: A Curricular Design , Seong Sun Kim
Role of Toll-like Receptor 2 in macrophage recognition and response to Borrelia burgdorferi , Yukiye A. Koide
Magpie Naheševehe: An Autoethnographic Study of a Chief’s Son Reclaiming His Language , Quinn A. Magpie
Human Trafficking: Foreign National Adolescent Survivors in the United States, A Call to Expand OTIP Eligibility Letters , Ailleene L. Maldonado
Impacting Queer Trans-Migrations in Mexico: A Case Study of civil society organization Casa Frida Refugio LGBT+ , Leticia Morales
What Gives? Trust, Risk, Altruism, and Reciprocity Across 76 Countries , Sherwin Mosavat
Queering the Care Chain & Migration Discourse , Duun O'Hara
Assesing Electronic Waste Management Strategies in Ghana , Valere Daphne Ossie
Cognitive and Social Behavioral Effects of War , Antonio Pagano
Disabilities, Identity, and Success at Law School , Andrew Palos
To Burn or Not To Burn: Causal effect of farm stubble burning on Air Quality. , Chaitanya Pasupala
The Impact of Female Political Leadership on Intimate Partner Violence in India , Khushboo Patel
Enhancing Refugee Resettlement and Displaced Population Support through Elder Communities in the United States: A Model for Sustainable Solutions , Ponnaka Pok
Exploring the Relationship Between Load Shedding and Crime in Gauteng , Bhavesh Ram
Does Endogamous Marriage Impact Women's Fertility Gaps in India? , Natalya Francis Schafer
Game Changer: Mobile Apps Leveling Up Field Experiments , Lucie Schulz
Fleeing Towards Healing: How CAM Can Heal Refugee Communities , Sarah B. Shaalan
Leveling Up Financial Literacy: Evidence from Game-Based Intervention with Aspiration Treatment amongst Rural Women in India , Akash Shaji
Impact of Temperature on Children’s Nutrition: A Comparative Study of Three Ecological Regions of Nepal , Prakriti Shakya
The Diorama of Coexistence Hypnagogia: The Liminal Space between Dream and Reality , Yunseok Song
“Bad Hombres”: Trump Era Politics and Media in Shaping the Perceptions of the Mexican Diaspora in the United States , Angelica Soria
Heat and Social Behavior: The Effect of Personal and Social Well-Being , Antonia Michele Sottile
Matrilineal Ethnic Affiliation and Female Empowerment: Investigating Attitudes towards Female Autonomy and Health in Ivorian Households , Martine Hind Stølan
2-Tertbutylfuran at 550 and 700 K: A Multiplexed Photoionization Mass Spectrometric Investigation and Determination of Cross Sections of a Carbon- Bromine Bond and Various Brominated Organic Compounds , Ameyali Tapia
Buddhism in Thailand: Why don’t the youth believe in Buddhism? , Nutnicha Teekatanasuk
Effects of Temperature on Economic Preferences: A Cross-Cultural Laboratory Study of Prosocial Behavior , Nikita Tkachenko
Using Virtual Power Plants to Advance Decarbonization and Energy Equity in California , Cheri Tsoi Yu Tse
LGBTQIA+ Immigrant Healing: Ulysses Syndrome & Community-Based Organizing , Tay Villaseñor-Ingersoll
THE PLAGIARISM QUESTION OF AI: HOW TEACHERS HAVE RESPONDED TO LLMS IN THE CLASSROOM , Anthony E. Wolf
PREVENTING CONFLICT-RELATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ETHIOPIA: AN APPLIED APPROACH TOWARDS PREVENTION , Leah Yared
CONFLICT RELATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ETHIOPIA: AN APPLIED APPROACH TO PREVENTION , Liya Yared
Exploring the Learning Outcome of a Financial Literacy Game , Stanley Yip
Does Higher Socioeconomic Status Associate with Better Mental Health Outcomes Among Primary Caregivers in Rural China? , Wenwen Zhang
Dose Higher Socioeconomic Status Associate with Better Mental Health Outcomes Among Primary Caregivers in Rural China? , Wenwen Zhang
The Cost of Prosperity in China, Comparison of Early Development Differences Between Left-Behind Children and Non-left-behind Children in Rural China , Yuchen Zhu
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The Child Nutrition Cost of Weather Shocks in Nigeria , Danielle M. Abaya
Fourthspace: The Role of Active Social Inclusion in the Workforce Entry of Syrian Refugees in Scandinavia , Anisa Abeytia
Silent Weapon: A documentary on ending police corruption in Nigeria with a Nonviolent Social Movement , Damilola Adesanya
The Labor and Educational Effects of DACA: Evidence from California , Oscar A. Alonso Guerra
Effects of posttranslational modifications on metal ion binding to the antimicrobial peptide PG-KI , Tiffany Alvarez
Interest Convergence and Neoliberalism: Effects on Entry-Level Staff of Color Who Perform Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education , Jesse N. Avila
The Armed Forces of Ukraine: From the Collapse of the Soviet Union to the Russian Invasion , Gunnar Bash
Covalent Inhibition of Enzyme Sortase A as a New Pathway Against Bacterial Resistance of Staphylococcus Aureus , Umyeena Bashir
Leave the Sea , Clare Bayard
How a Study Abroad Program Supports Its Students of Color: A Case Study , Hannah E. L. Bloom
Preparing to Engage Migrant-Origin Students through Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Handbook for Teachers , Grayson E. Briggs
Between Life and Death: Reimagining Black Reproductive Healthcare , Briana Britton
BRAIDING HEARTS/CORAZONES: THE HEALING OF INTERGENERATIONAL STORIES , Nicole A. Buchanan and Glendy V. Alvarez
The Impact of High Temperatures on Child Anthropometric Outcomes Worldwide , Natalia A. Cancino Garcia
Climate & Conflict: View into a Warming World , Faelynn Carroll
Restorative Justice: How Adult Practitioners Navigate Contested Learning Environments , Andrés Castañeda
Positive out of the Negative: Tracking Renewable Energy Projects in Central America , Jordan Ethan Castillo (Miner)
Tempers Rising: The Effect of Heat on Spite , Jake C. Cosgrove
Heat & Social Cooperation: The Effects of Thermal Stress on Altruism , Alexander J. Courtman
The United States and Spain Border Externalization Practices: A Comparison of their Functioning and Impact on Migrants' Rights , Jesús M. de la Torre Cañadilla
War and Genocide in Darfur and its Impact on Darfur society , Hamid Elshareif
Cost-a-lot of Evictions and Displacement: MEDA's Role in Community Organizing and the Impacts of the Costa-Hawkins and Ellis Acts , Henna Gandhi
Jakarta's Kampungs: An Analysis and Evaluation of Their Role in the City and Their Relationship with Urban Policy, Global Capital, and the Discourse of Development , Alberto Gardner López
Development and Economic Complexity of Mexican municipalities: based on their energy access and gross production. , Angelica Gloria Velasco
Post-Pandemic Digital Experiences & Attitudes Among Adult Immigrant ESOL Learners , Lacey D. Goodloe
INVISIBILITY: Bringing Statelessness to the Forefront of U.S. Political Advocacy , Claire G. Green
Ties that Bind: Allomaternal Care and Cooperation among Matrilocal and Patrilocal Northeast Indian Tribes , Shreeja Guha
Impacts of Rising Temperatures on Human Behavior with a Focus on Gender Differences , Stephanie Marie Emilia J. Hermoso
FOOD & CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: RECIPES FOR UPWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY AMONG EMPRENDEDORAS INMIGRANTES IN THE BAY AREA , Mariel Hernandez
Heating Systems and Households’ Expenditure , Svitlana Holyk
"Filipino Enough": Racism and Filipino American Student Leadership , Janrey Millare Javier
Political Economy of General Normative Force in the Paris Agreement , Jonah B. Jellesed
The Relationship Between Economic Complexity and Income Inequality: A study on the United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas , Brooke Johnson
How Violence Shaped the Next Generation: Intergenerational Impacts of Abduction in Northern Uganda , Mansi Kalra
Impact of Long-Term Trauma Exposure on Competitiveness and Generosity , Anchal Khandelwal
Feminist Foreign Policy: Branded for All, Reserved for Some , Madeline King
Feeling the Heat: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Heat on Human Cooperation , Scott K. Klaus
From Instability to Civil Liberties: Nonviolent Resistance in Afghanistan , RACHEL L. KNOWLES
Liberté, Égalité, Identité: Media and the Construction of French National Identity , Hannah D. Lahey
Refugee Resettlement: Assessing the Quality of Reception in the Southeast U.S. , Adrian Laudani
GDPR, Privacy and Europe's Power Gambit , Daniel Maneloveg
The Invisible Brats: Bringing Attention to the Unique Experiences of Coast Guard-Connected Youth , Cameron A. Marshall
The Grid that Binds: The Renewable Energy Transition in Germany, France, and Italy , Katherine A. Mason
From Margins to Museums: Tracing the Evolution of Representation for Contemporary African Artists in the United States , Victoria Mouraux Durand-Ruel
Giving Birth To A Stateless Citizen: Gendered Citizenship Laws in International Human Rights. , Serena Nader
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Cornell theses.
Check Cornell’s library catalog , which lists the dissertations available in our library collection.
The print thesis collection in Uris Library is currently shelved on Level 3B before the Q to QA regular-sized volumes. Check with the library staff for the thesis shelving locations in other libraries (Mann, Catherwood, Fine Arts, etc.).
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Proquest dissertations and theses.
According to ProQuest, coverage begins with 1637. With more than 2.4 million entries, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global is the starting point for finding citations to doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master’s theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI also offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. The full text of more than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download. Use Interlibrary Loan for the titles not available as full text online.
Foreign Dissertations at the Center for Research Libraries
To search for titles and verify holdings of dissertations at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), use the CRL catalog . CRL seeks to provide comprehensive access to doctoral dissertations submitted to institutions outside the U. S. and Canada (currently more than 750,000 titles). One hundred European universities maintain exchange or deposit agreements with CRL. Russian dissertation abstracts in the social sciences are obtained on microfiche from INION. More detailed information about CRL’s dissertation holdings .
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More than 40,000 theses and dissertations produced at the University of Arizona are included in the UA Theses and Dissertations collections. These items are publicly available and full-text searchable. A small percentage of items are under embargo (restricted).
- Submitting master's theses to the UA Libraries was optional for many decades; as a result, we do not have all master's theses that were written at the University of Arizona.
- A small number of historical theses containing culturally sensitive material are not available online.
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The theses and dissertations of graduate students at Cornell University have been deposited in Cornell's institutional repository (eCommons) since about 2004. This collection also includes a few earlier Cornell theses.
Students retain ownership of the copyright of their work. Students also have the option of imposing a temporary embargo on access to the full text of their theses for limited amount of time (see eCommons access policy ). If access to a thesis is restricted, the metadata record for the thesis is still visible, but the text "Access to Document Restricted" is displayed, and a field labeled "No Access Until," which indicates the date when the full text of the thesis will become accessible.
More information about finding Cornell theses and dissertations is available on this library guide , and the eCommons help page for finding content in specific collections , including theses and dissertations.
In general, older theses and dissertations from Cornell University are not currently available as digital files in eCommons. The Library is willing to digitize and make available older Cornell theses on a cost recovery basis. If you are interested in this service, please contact [email protected] .
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The majority of print dissertations in the UC Berkeley Libraries are from UC Berkeley. The libraries have a nearly complete collection of Berkeley doctoral dissertations (wither online, in print, or both), and a large number of Berkeley master's theses.
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Index and full text of graduate dissertations and theses from North American and European schools and universities, including the University of California, with full text of most doctoral dissertations from UC Berkeley and elsewhere from 1996 forward. Dissertations published prior to 2009 may not include information about the department from which the degree was granted.
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Selected UC Berkeley master's theses freely available online. For theses published prior to 2020, check UC Library Search for print availability (see "At the Library" below).
UC Berkeley dissertations may also be found in eScholarship , UC's online open access repository.
Please note that it may take time for a dissertation to appear in one of the above online resources. Embargoes and other issues affect the release timing.
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The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
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An index of over 3.5 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.
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An Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) is a requirement for graduation from Doctoral programs and available to graduates from Masters programs.
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An electronic thesis or dissertation (ETD) is a digital version of a thesis or dissertation that will be deposited in the JScholarship repository managed by the Sheridan Libraries and be available online to the public.
Universities and colleges in the United States and abroad have been moving toward this type of publication for the past decade. Johns Hopkins started its own ETD program beginning in the fall semester of 2013.
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How and when do I submit my ETD?
- Submit after you have defended your thesis or dissertation and made all edits required by your committee
- Follow the formatting requirements
- Login with your JHED ID to the JHU ETD submission system , fill in the required metadata, and upload a PDF/A file of your thesis or dissertation
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No. If your department does not coordinate printing and binding, you might consider Thesis on Demand or PhD Bookbinding . You can upload your PDF, and they will print it, bind it, and ship it to you.
Yes. No individual file can be larger than 512 MB, and the total size of all files cannot exceed 4 GB. If your thesis or dissertation is larger than that, please email [email protected] .
Within two months following degree conferral, ETDs are published to JScholarship , our institutional repository. There are separate sections in JScholarship for masters theses and doctoral dissertations . If you placed an embargo on your ETD, only the metadata (author, title, abstract, etc.) will be available until the embargo period is up.
Your ETD will be published to our institutional repository, JScholarship , within two months following degree conferral. An ETD is considered published when it is deposited in JScholarship, even if it is under embargo.
Once published, changes cannot be made to your ETD. Your ETD will be published within two months following degree conferral. You are responsible for ensuring your ETD has been thoroughly proofread before you submit to the library.
Students submitting Electronic Theses and Dissertations are responsible for determining any copyright or fair use questions. For assistance, please consult the Copyright LibGuide or contact the librarian listed on the guide.
By default, ETDs are published to JScholarship within two months after you graduate. If you wish to temporarily restrict public access to your ETD, during the ETD submission process you can embargo your document for up to four years. Please note that the title and abstract of your document will still be visible during your embargo. You may release your document from embargo early or extend it up to the four-year maximum by emailing [email protected] . Once your document is publicly accessible, however, we cannot make changes to embargoes.
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Theses and dissertations produced by students as part of the completion of their degree requirements often represent unique and interesting scholarship. Universities are increasingly making this work available online, and UC is no exception. Find information related to open access theses and dissertations below.
UC has an open access policy for theses and dissertations, but procedures and specifics vary by campus
Several UC campuses have established policies requiring open access to the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) written by their graduate students. As of March 25, 2020, there is now a systemwide Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations , indicating that UC “requires theses or dissertations prepared at the University to be (1) deposited into an open access repository, and (2) freely and openly available to the public, subject to a requested delay of access (’embargo’) obtained by the student.”
In accordance with these policies, campuses must ensure that student ETDs are available open access via eScholarship (UC’s open access repository and publishing platform), at no cost to students. By contrast, ProQuest, the world’s largest commercial publisher of ETDs, charges a $95 fee to make an ETD open access. Institutions worldwide have moved toward open access ETD publication because it dramatically increases the visibility and reach of their graduate research.
Policies and procedures for ETD filing, including how to delay public release of an ETD and how long such a delay can last, vary by campus. Learn more about the requirements and procedures for ETDs at each UC campus:
- UC Berkeley: Dissertation Filing Guidelines (for Doctoral Students) and Thesis Filing Guidelines (for Master’s Students)
- UC Davis: Preparing and Filing Your Thesis or Dissertation
- UC Irvine: Thesis/Dissertation Electronic Submission
- UCLA: File Your Thesis or Dissertation
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- UCSF: Dissertation and Thesis Guidelines
- UC Santa Barbara: Filing Your Thesis, Dissertation, or DMA Supporting Document
- UC Santa Cruz: Dissertation and Thesis Guidelines (PDF) from the Graduate Division’s Accessing Forms Online page
Open access can be delayed in certain circumstances
Some campuses allow students to elect an embargo period before the public release of their thesis/dissertation; others require approval from graduate advisors or administrators. Visit your local graduate division’s website (linked above) for more information.
Common copyright concerns of students writing theses and dissertations
Students writing theses/dissertations most commonly have questions about their own copyright ownership or the use of other people’s copyrighted materials in their own work.
You automatically own the copyright in your thesis/dissertation as soon as you create it, regardless of whether you register it or include a copyright page or copyright notice (see this FAQ from the U.S. Copyright Office for more information). Most students choose not to register their copyrights, though some choose to do so because they value having their copyright ownership officially and publicly recorded. Getting a copyright registered is required before you can sue someone for infringement.
If you decide to register your copyright, you can do so
- directly, through the Copyright Office website , for $35
- by having ProQuest/UMI contact the Copyright Office on your behalf, for $65.
It is common to incorporate 1) writing you have done for journal articles as part of your dissertation, and 2) parts of your dissertation into articles or books . See, for example, these articles from Wiley and Taylor & Francis giving authors tips on how to successfully turn dissertations into articles, or these pages at Sage , Springer , and Elsevier listing reuse in a thesis or dissertation as a common right of authors. Because this is a well-known practice, and often explicitly allowed in publishers’ contracts with authors, it rarely raises copyright concerns. eScholarship , which hosts over 55,000 UC ETDs, has never received a takedown notice from a publisher based on a complaint that the author’s ETD was too similar to the author’s published work.
Incorporating the works of others in your thesis/dissertation – such as quotations or illustrative images – is often allowed by copyright law. This is the case when the original work isn’t protected by copyright, or if the way you’re using the work would be considered fair use. In some circumstances, however, you will need permission from the copyright holder. For more information, please consult the Berkeley Library’s guide to Copyright and Publishing Your Dissertation .
How to find UC Dissertations and Theses online
All ten UC campuses make their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) openly accessible to readers around the world. You can view over 55,000 UC ETDs in eScholarship , UC’s open access repository. View ETDs from each campus:
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Electronic dissertations and masters’ theses have been deposited in the Libra scholarly repository at the University of Virginia since 2012. Libra makes UVA scholarship available to the world and provides safe and secure storage for the scholarly output of the UVA community. Submitting your work to Libra is a graduation requirement for all graduate students whose programs have required theses and for PhD students. LibraETD is can be used by all students, undergraduate or graduate, whose programs have optional theses or capstones.
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All dissertations submitted to the UVA Library in CD format were deposited into Libra in early 2014. Access to these items is UVA-only, replicating the accessibility level of the originally deposited CDs.
If you are the author of one of these dissertations and would like to change the access level to be world-wide open access, please contact us .
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We no longer accept paper copies for the Library shelves. Many frequently requested dissertations from the UVA collection have been added to Libra through a generous grant from Jefferson Trust. If you are the author of one of these dissertations now in Libra and would like to change the access level to be world-wide open access, please contact us .
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Many UVA dissertations were deposited in ProQuest until 2012, and some students continue to take the option to deposit to this commercial vendor of databases and other information products. ProQuest’s Dissertations and Theses Full Text database contains many dissertations published in the U.S. and is used by scholars worldwide whose institutions opt to provide paid access to the database. ProQuest also sells full-text copies of dissertations directly to the public, though it is worth noting they do not share revenue from those sales with authors. NOTE: To access "online" ETD's in Proquest, you must be affiliated with an institution that subscribes to the ProQuest database.
ProQuest charges fees for submission, and they have particular formatting and copyright requirements. Please see their submission instructions for details. UVA does not require thesis or dissertation deposit to ProQuest, nor does UVA have an institutional agreement with ProQuest for such deposit. Students who opt to deposit with ProQuest do so as individuals contracting with this vendor.
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Oxford theses
The Bodleian Libraries’ thesis collection holds every DPhil thesis deposited at the University of Oxford since the degree began in its present form in 1917. Our oldest theses date from the early 1920s. We also have substantial holdings of MLitt theses, for which deposit became compulsory in 1953, and MPhil theses.
Since 2007 it has been a mandatory requirement for students to deposit an electronic copy of their DPhil thesis in the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) , in addition to the deposit of a paper copy – the copy of record. Since the COVID pandemic, the requirement of a paper copy has been removed and the ORA copy has become the copy of record. Hardcopy theses are now only deposited under exceptional circumstances.
ORA provides full-text PDF copies of most recent DPhil theses, and some earlier BLitt/MLitt theses. Find out more about Oxford Digital Theses, and depositing with ORA .
Finding Oxford theses
The following theses are catalogued on SOLO (the University libraries’ resource discovery tool) :
- DPhil and BLitt and MLitt theses
- BPhil and MPhil theses
- Science theses
SOLO collates search results from several sources.
How to search for Oxford theses on SOLO
To search for theses in the Oxford collections on SOLO :
- navigate to the SOLO homepage
- click on the 'Advanced Search' button
- click the 'Material Type' menu and choose the 'Dissertations' option
- type in the title or author of the thesis you are looking for and click the 'Search' button.
Also try an “Any field” search for “Thesis Oxford” along with the author’s name under “creator” and any further “Any field” keywords such as department or subject.
Searching by shelfmarks
If you are searching using the shelfmark, please make sure you include the dots in your search (e.g. D.Phil.). Records will not be returned if they are left out.
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)
ORA was established in 2007 as a permanent and secure online archive of research produced by members of the University of Oxford. It is now mandatory for students completing a research degree at the University to deposit an electronic copy of their thesis in this archive.
Authors can select immediate release on ORA, or apply a 1-year or 3-year embargo period. The embargo period would enable them to publish all or part of their research elsewhere if they wish.
Theses held in ORA are searchable via SOLO , as well as external services such as EThOS and Google Scholar. For more information, visit the Oxford digital theses guide , and see below for guidance on searching in ORA.
Search for Oxford theses on ORA
Type your keywords (title, name) into the main search box, and use quotes (“) to search for an exact phrase.
Refine your search results using the drop-downs on the left-hand side. These include:
- item type (thesis, journal article, book section, etc.)
- thesis type (DPhil, MSc, MLitt, etc.)
- subject area (History, Economics, Biochemistry, etc.)
- item date (as a range)
- file availability (whether a full text is available to download or not)
You can also increase the number of search results shown per page, and sort by relevance, date and file availability. You can select and export records to csv or email.
Select hyperlinked text within the record details, such as “More by this author”, to run a secondary search on an author’s name. You can also select a hyperlinked keyword or subject.
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The Rare Books department of the Weston Library keeps an author card index of Oxford theses. This includes all non-scientific theses deposited between 1922 and 2016. Please ask Weston Library staff for assistance.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
You can use ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global to find bibliographic details of Oxford theses not listed on SOLO. Ask staff in the Weston Library’s Charles Wendall David Reading Room for help finding these theses.
Search for Oxford theses on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
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The default Basic search page allows for general keyword searches across all indexes using "and", "and not", "and or" to link the keywords as appropriate. Click on the More Search Options tab for specific title, author, subject and institution (school) searches, and to browse indexes of authors, institutions and subjects. These indexes allow you to add the word or phrase recognised by the database to your search (ie University of Oxford (United Kingdom), not Oxford University).
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The Advanced search tab (at the top of the page) enables keyword searching in specific indexes, including author, title, institution, department, adviser and language. If you are unsure of the exact details of thesis, you can use the search boxes on this page to find it by combining the key information you do have.
Search tools
In both the Basic and Advanced search pages you can also limit the search by date by using the boxes at the bottom. Use the Search Tools advice in both the Basic and Advanced pages to undertake more complex and specific searches. Within the list of results, once you have found the record that you are interested in, you can click on the link to obtain a full citation and abstract. You can use the back button on your browser to return to your list of citations.
The Browse search tab allows you to search by subject or by location (ie institution). These are given in an alphabetical list. You can click on a top-level subject to show subdivisions of the subject. You can click on a country location to show lists of institutions in that country. At each level, you can click on View Documents to show lists of individual theses for that subject division or from that location.
In Browse search, locations and subject divisions are automatically added to a basic search at the bottom of the page. You can search within a subject or location by title, author, institution, subject, date etc, by clicking on Refine Search at the top of the page or More Search Options at the bottom of the page.
Where are physical Oxford theses held?
The Bodleian Libraries hold all doctoral theses and most postgraduate (non-doctoral) theses for which a deposit requirement is stipulated by the University:
- DPhil (doctoral) theses (1922 – 2021)
- Bachelor of Divinity (BD) theses
- BLitt/MLitt theses (Michaelmas Term 1953 – 2021)
- BPhil and MPhil theses (Michaelmas Term 1977 – 2021)
Most Oxford theses are held in Bodleian Offsite Storage. Some theses are available in the libraries; these are listed below.
Law Library
Theses submitted to the Faculty of Law are held at the Bodleian Law Library .
Vere Harmsworth Library
Theses on the United States are held at the Vere Harmsworth Library .
Social Science Library
The Social Science Library holds dissertations and theses selected by the departments it supports.
The list of departments and further information are available in the Dissertations and Theses section of the SSL webpages.
Locations for Anthropology and Archaeology theses
The Balfour Library holds theses for the MPhil in Material and Visual Anthropology and some older theses in Prehistoric Archaeology.
The Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library holds theses for MPhil in Classical Archaeology and MPhil in European Archaeology.
Ordering Oxford theses
Theses held in Bodleian Offsite Storage are consulted in the Weston Library. The preferred location is the Charles Wendell David Reading Room ; they can also be ordered to the Sir Charles Mackerras Reading Room .
Find out more about requesting a digitised copy, copyright restrictions and copying from Oxford theses .
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EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. Content Includes: 1,500,000 electronic theses and dissertations. 320 worldwide universities that have loaded their ...
MIT's DSpace contains more than 58,000 theses completed at MIT dating as far back as the mid 1800's. Theses in this collection have been scanned by the MIT Libraries or submitted in electronic format by thesis authors. Since 2004 all new Masters and Ph.D. theses are scanned and added to this collection after degrees are awarded.
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Global ETD Search. Search the 6,506,290 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive:
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Open Access Theses and Dissertations. Database of free, open access full-text graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Direct Link. University of Southern California. 3550 Trousdale Parkway. Los Angeles, CA 90089. Database of free, open access full-text graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Access is available to everyone, anywhere. Description: Coverage: 1990s to the present. Indexes over 4 million graduate-level electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) freely available from over 1,100 institutions worldwide. Search for keywords from titles, author names, abstracts, subjects, university/publisher and more.
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With more than 2.4 million entries, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global is the starting point for finding citations to doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
The full content is available to all, although some theses may have embargoes. If an embargo exists the date will be listed instead of the download button. The download button will appear once a thesis is no longer embargoed. To browse a fuller listing of theses from Purdue please visit the Theses and Dissertations Available from ProQuest series.
More than 40,000 theses and dissertations produced at the University of Arizona are included in the UA Theses and Dissertations collections. These items are publicly available and full-text searchable. A small percentage of items are under embargo (restricted). We have digitized the entire backfile of UA master's theses and doctoral ...
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The theses and dissertations of graduate students at Cornell University have been deposited in Cornell's institutional repository (eCommons) since about 2004. This collection also includes a few earlier Cornell theses. Students retain ownership of the copyright of their work. Students also have the option of imposing a temporary embargo on ...
At the Library: Dissertations: From 2012 onwards, dissertations are only available online. See above links. Master's theses: From 2020 onwards, theses are only available online.See above links. To locate older dissertations, master's theses, and master's projects in print, search UC Library Search by keyword, title or author. For publications prior to 2009 you may also include a specific UC ...
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As of March 25, 2020, there is now a systemwide Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations, indicating that UC "requires theses or dissertations prepared at the University to be (1) deposited into an open access repository, and (2) freely and openly available to the public, subject to a requested delay of access ('embargo ...
Electronic dissertations and masters' theses have been deposited in the Libra scholarly repository at the University of Virginia since 2012. Libra makes UVA scholarship available to the world and provides safe and secure storage for the scholarly output of the UVA community. Submitting your work to Libra is a graduation requirement for all ...
The Digital Repository Service is a secure repository system, designed to store and share scholarly, administrative, and archival materials from the Northeastern University community. The DRS was developed by the Northeastern University Library as a tool for University faculty and staff to protect the valuable information and data that has been created as part of the University's research ...
An index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online. Materials Indexed: Books, Theses & Dissertations Database Type: Electronic Book Collection, Full Text Collection Interface Language: English Materials ...
Oxford theses. The Bodleian Libraries' thesis collection holds every DPhil thesis deposited at the University of Oxford since the degree began in its present form in 1917. Our oldest theses date from the early 1920s. We also have substantial holdings of MLitt theses, for which deposit became compulsory in 1953, and MPhil theses.
Research Space is UKZN's institutional repository where copies of masters and PhD theses and research articles are uploaded and available for public access.. All UKZN theses are listed in the UKZN library catalogue with clickable links to those that are full text. The catalogue can be searched by author, title, keyword.