ASSOCIATES (vol. 7 no. 3, March 2001) - associates.ucr.edu

While at the Information Desk in the Documents Department of FSU's Strozier Library one of the questions we run into the most frequently is "How do I find Dissertations and Theses from other Universities?" Dissertation Abstracts is good but many do not understand until they see it that it is an abstract of the dissertation, not the dissertation itself.

In response to all of these requests I started looking on the Internet for sources for dissertations and I was supprised at how many I found. These are either full text or give directions on how to receive the full text version.

I hope this list is as helpful to you as it has been to me.

http://chronicle.com/colloquy/98/thesis/thesis.htm
Chronicle of Higher Education. - Requiring Thesis and Dissertations in Electronic form.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/GailsCCQarticle.html
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Merging Perspectives

http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/etds/bibliog.html
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Problems and Possibilities.

http://etd.vt.edu/
Virginia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation home page.

http://theses.mit.edu/
MIT Theses, a collection of selected MIT master's and doctoral theses which you can read through the World Wide Web. This service is provided by MIT Libraries and MIT Information Systems.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september96/theses/09fox.html
National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Unlock University Resources.

http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/tei10/tei10.papers/erickson.html
An SGML/HTML Electronic Theses and Dissertation Library.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/ETD.html
Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities, a Directory of Online References and Resources.

http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/
WPI Worchester Polytechnic Institute Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

http://www.wvu.edu/~thesis/
West Virginia University Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

http://www.theses.org/
EDT Digital Library - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/nov/etds.html
Problems and Possibilities of Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Christian Weisser, John Baker, and Janice R. Walker

http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/etds/etds.html
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Problems and Possibilities Christian Weisser John Baker Janice R. Walker University of South Florida Dept. of English.

http://www.ndltd.org/
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/etd/
North Carolina State University (NCSU) - Electronic Theses and Dissertations available at NCSU Libraries.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
VT University Libraries - Electronic Theses and Dissertations including available, restricted and withheld ETDs

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~uwetpt/pilot.html
University of Waterloo Electronic Theses and Dissertations Pilot Project. This site provides access to a selection of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) submitted by graduate students at the University of Waterloo.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/directory/directory.html
Directory of ETDs Currently in Progress - All of the works listed below exist solely, or at least primarily, in digital form and seek to use their electronic environment to support scholarship that could not be undertaken in print. Detailed project descriptions and contact information are available by clicking on each ETD's title.

http://www.cni.org/projects/theses/
Project: The Capture and Storage of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Call for Statement of Interest and Experience.

http://www.cs.queensu.ca/achallc97/papers/p037.html
Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum - University of Virginia.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etd/
The Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) project offers students the opportunity to submit their works electronically. ETDs will be stored in a digital library and made available through VIRGO as fulltext searchable documents.

http://www.lib.usf.edu/virtual/etd/
University of South Florida Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

http://www.unesco.org/webworld/etd/
UNESCO promotes free and universal exchange of scientific information and the transfer of advanced digital library and publishing technologies to developing countries. In this context, UNESCO is examining the possibilities of formulating an international strategy for creating and disseminating electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

http://www.cs.wvu.edu/~java/etd/
West Virginia University Computer Science Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

http://www.umi.com/hp/Products/DisExpress.html
Dissertations express is a commercial product where the person can purchase a copy from them.

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway
ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Commercial product. The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350 word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats.

http://dissertation.com/
Commercial Academic Dissertation Publishers.

http://www.eduserver.de/unesco/
UNESCO Clearing House on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD).

http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference/glance.htm
Third International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Applying New Media to Scholarship March 1618, 2000; University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida.

http://www.rgs.uky.edu/gs/ETDintro.html
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UK - Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).

http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/elec_thes.html
Report of the Taskforce on Electronic Theses And Dissertations.

http://www.soci.niu.edu/theses/theses.html
Selected Northern Illinois University School of Sociology Graduate Student Theses.

http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/etd/
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) project offers students the opportunity to submit their works electronically. ETDs will be stored in a digital library and made available through VIRGO as fulltext searchable documents.

http://mrg.esm.vt.edu/Composites/etds.htm
Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

http://www.rhodes.ac.za/library/theses/
Rhodes University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Initiative.

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/etd.html
University of Florida Theses and Dissertations are beginning to be published electronically, as are those from a number of other universities.

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