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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions . OATD currently indexes 6,912,508 theses and dissertations.

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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. 

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EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. You can join the movement and add your theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to your institutional repository. 

EBSCO Open Dissertations extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

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With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. Our goal is to help make their students’ theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible.

This approach extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

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A Guide to Finding Dissertations

Dissertations are book-length works based on a PhD candidate's original research that are written as requirements for the doctoral degree. Theses are similar but shorter texts that are written by students working towards Master's and sometimes Bachelor's degrees.  Both dissertations and theses offer researchers valuable insights and analysis of all subjects. They can also be useful in leading to other resources as part of your own research.

Click on the tabs at the top of this page for information about specific resources and useful search techniques for finding dissertations. You can also navigate using the "Guide Contents" links on the left side of the page.

If you encounter difficulties in obtaining full-texts of dissertations or theses, consult a librarian. The "Ask A Librarian" instant message widget is located on the left of every page underneath the tabs.

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When looking for a specific dissertation, you need some or all of the following:

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When looking for dissertations in a specific subject area, you may need a variety of search terms and limiters. For example:

Where to Search

In general, start your search in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. If you are looking for an IU dissertation and cannot find it in ProQuest, search ScholarWorks. If it is not in ScholarWorks, search IUCAT.

Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.

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Why use a dissertation or a thesis.

A dissertation is the final large research paper, based on original research, for many disciplines to be able to complete a PhD degree. The thesis is the same idea but for a masters degree.

They are often considered scholarly sources since they are closely supervised by a committee, are directed at an academic audience, are extensively researched, follow research methodology, and are cited in other scholarly work. Often the research is newer or answering questions that are more recent, and can help push scholarship in new directions. 

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Locating dissertations and theses.

The Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global database includes doctoral dissertations and selected masters theses from major universities worldwide.

• Searchable by subject, author, advisor, title, school, date, etc.
• More information about full text access and requesting through Interlibrary Loan

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations provides free online access to a over a million theses and dissertations from all over the world.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses searches library catalogs from across the U.S. and worldwide.

Locating University of Minnesota Dissertations and Theses

Use  Libraries search  and search by title or author and add the word "thesis" in the search box. Write down the library and call number and find it on the shelf. They can be checked out.

Check the  University Digital Conservancy  for online access to dissertations and theses from 2007 to present as well as historic, scanned theses from 1887-1923.

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• E-Thesis at the University of Helsinki
• DissOnline (Germany)
• List of libraries worldwide - to search for a thesis when you know the institution and cannot find in the larger collections

University of Minnesota Dissertations and Theses FAQs

What dissertations and theses are available.

With minor exceptions, all doctoral dissertations and all "Plan A" master's theses accepted by the University of Minnesota are available in the University Libraries system. In some cases (see below) only a non-circulating copy in University Archives exists, but for doctoral dissertations from 1940 to date, and for master's theses from 1925 to date, a circulating copy should almost always be available.

"Plan B" papers, accepted in the place of a thesis in many master's degree programs, are not received by the University Libraries and are generally not available. (The only real exceptions are a number of old library school Plan B papers on publishing history, which have been separately cataloged.) In a few cases individual departments may have maintained files of such papers.

In what libraries are U of M dissertations and theses located?

Circulating copies of doctoral dissertations:.

• Use Libraries Search to look for the author or title of the work desired to determine location and call number of a specific dissertation. Circulating copies of U of M doctoral dissertations can be in one of several locations in the library system, depending upon the date and the department for which the dissertation was done. The following are the general rules:
• Dissertations prior to 1940 Circulating copies of U of M dissertations prior to 1940 do not exist (with rare exceptions): for these, only the archival copy (see below) is available. Also, most dissertations prior to 1940 are not cataloged in MNCAT and can only be identified by the departmental listings described below.  
• Dissertations from 1940-1979 Circulating copies of U of M dissertations from 1940 to 1979 will in most cases be held within the Elmer L. Andersen Library, with three major classes of exceptions: dissertations accepted by biological, medical, and related departments are housed in the Health Science Library; science/engineering dissertations from 1970 to date will be located in the Science and Engineering Library (in Walter); and dissertations accepted by agricultural and related departments are available at the Magrath Library or one of the other libraries on the St. Paul campus (the Magrath Library maintains records of locations for such dissertations).  
• Dissertations from 1980-date Circulating copies of U of M dissertations from 1980 to date at present may be located either in Wilson Library (see below) or in storage; consult Libraries Search for location of specific items. Again, exceptions noted above apply here also; dissertations in their respective departments will instead be in Health Science Library or in one of the St. Paul campus libraries.

Circulating copies of master's theses:

• Theses prior to 1925 Circulating copies of U of M master's theses prior to 1925 do not exist (with rare exceptions); for these, only the archival copy (see below) is available.  
• Theses from 1925-1996 Circulating copies of U of M master's theses from 1925 to 1996 may be held in storage; consult Libraries search in specific instances. Once again, there are exceptions and theses in their respective departments will be housed in the Health Science Library or in one of the St. Paul campus libraries.  
• Theses from 1997-date Circulating copies of U of M master's theses from 1997 to date will be located in Wilson Library (see below), except for the same exceptions for Health Science  and St. Paul theses. There is also an exception to the exception: MHA (Masters in Health Administration) theses through 1998 are in the Health Science Library, but those from 1999 on are in Wilson Library.

Archival copies (non-circulating)

Archival (non-circulating) copies of virtually all U of M doctoral dissertations from 1888-1952, and of U of M master's theses from all years up to the present, are maintained by University Archives (located in the Elmer L. Andersen Library). These copies must be consulted on the premises, and it is highly recommended for the present that users make an appointment in advance to ensure that the desired works can be retrieved for them from storage. For dissertations accepted prior to 1940 and for master's theses accepted prior to 1925, University Archives is generally the only option (e.g., there usually will be no circulating copy). Archival copies of U of M doctoral dissertations from 1953 to the present are maintained by Bell and Howell Corporation (formerly University Microfilms Inc.), which produces print or filmed copies from our originals upon request. (There are a very few post-1952 U of M dissertations not available from Bell and Howell; these include such things as music manuscripts and works with color illustrations or extremely large pages that will not photocopy well; in these few cases, our archival copy is retained in University Archives.)

Where is a specific dissertation of thesis located?

To locate a specific dissertation or thesis it is necessary to have its call number. Use Libraries Search for the author or title of the item, just as you would for any other book. Depending on date of acceptance and cataloging, a typical call number for such materials should look something like one of the following:

Dissertations: Plan"A" Theses MnU-D or 378.7M66 MnU-M or 378.7M66 78-342 ODR7617 83-67 OL6156 Libraries Search will also tell the library location (MLAC, Health Science Library, Magrath or another St. Paul campus library, Science and Engineering, Business Reference, Wilson Annex or Wilson Library). Those doctoral dissertations still in Wilson Library (which in all cases should be 1980 or later and will have "MnU-D" numbers) are located in the central section of the third floor. Those master's theses in Wilson (which in all cases will be 1997 or later and will have "MnU-M" numbers) are also located in the central section of the third floor. Both dissertations and theses circulate and can be checked out, like any other books, at the Wilson Circulation desk on the first floor.

How can dissertations and theses accepted by a specific department be located?

Wilson Library contains a series of bound and loose-leaf notebooks, arranged by department and within each department by date, listing dissertations and theses. Information given for each entry includes name of author, title, and date (but not call number, which must be looked up individually). These notebooks are no longer current, but they do cover listings by department from the nineteenth century up to approximately 1992. Many pre-1940 U of M dissertations and pre-1925 U of M master's theses are not cataloged (and exist only as archival copies). Such dissertations can be identified only with these volumes. The books and notebooks are shelved in the general collection under these call numbers: Wilson Ref LD3337 .A5 and Wilson Ref quarto LD3337 .U9x. Major departments of individual degree candidates are also listed under their names in the GRADUATE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT programs of the U of M, available in University Archives and (for recent years) also in Wilson stacks (LD3361 .U55x).

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ProQuest enables dissertations and theses to be indexed in Google Scholar to support discovery of this valuable work and ultimately improve research outcomes for scholars. An authenticated ProQuest dissertations user searching Google Scholar will be recognized by the ProQuest platform and connect to the full text in their library's collection. Users who are not recognized are sent to a landing page where they can purchase the dissertation or access up to the first 24 pages at no charge. Dissertations that have been published using the ProQuest Open Access publishing model are available to all users for free and immediate download. In addition to Google Scholar, dissertations and theses will also be available on google.com as Google Scholar makes metadata available.

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Beyond Harvard, ProQuest  Dissertations and Theses G lobal database (this link requires HarvardKey login) i s a good place to start:

• lists dissertations and theses from most North American graduate schools (including Harvard) and many from universities in Great Britain and Ireland, 1716-present
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Some out of copyright works (pre-1924) are available via large digital libraries. Search online for the title.

Networked Digital Library of Electronic Theses and Dissertations ' Global Search scans participating international libraries

The Center for Research Libraries ' Dissertations database includes many non-US theses.

WorldCat  describes many masters' & PhD theses. Use "Advanced Search" and limit to subtype "thesis/dissertation." No full text; it just tells you what libraries have reported having copies.

There are several excellent guides out there with international search recommendations like  University College London's Institute of Education Theses and Dissertations LibGuide .

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Find doctoral dissertations and master's theses from universities and institutions all around the world. Check out our  tutorial  for ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations Find graduate-level theses from around the world that are freely available online.

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Use the  UA Theses & Dissertations Repository , to locate UA dissertations and masters theses submitted to the library from 1895-present. You can search or browse by author, title, discipline (program) or date.

Honors College theses from 2008-present are available in the UA Campus Repository. Paper copies from 1960s-2005 are located in  Special Collections .

Several UA departments maintain their own archives of masters theses and masters reports that were not submitted to the library. Check with individual departments.

The Arizona State Museum (ASM) Library collection includes master's theses from the American Indian Studies and Anthropology programs that are not available at the UA Libraries. Search the  ASM online catalog  to find theses in their non-circulating research collection and visit the  ASM Library and Archives  for more information on location and hours.

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UA faculty, staff, and students can  request dissertations and theses  from other institutions through interlibrary loan. If you're a non-UA affiliate, you may be able to borrow UA theses and dissertations through your local library's interlibrary loan system.

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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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What is Google Scholar and Why Should You Care?

Google Scholar is a special division of Google that searches for academic content. It is not as robust as Google, and as such it can be harder to search. However, if you are looking for a specific article it is a fantastic resource for finding out if you can access it through your library or if it's available for free.

Below are a few videos on how to use Google Scholar (you can skip the intros if you want) that will show you tips and tricks on how to best use Google Scholar.

Did you know that you can use Google Scholar in addition to Primo to help search Kemp library materials? You just have to add us to your Google Scholar and our results will show up in your searches showing you what you have access to as an ESU community member!

• Go to  Google Scholar 
• Make sure you're logged into your Google Account -  you'll see your initials or your icon in the top right hand corner of the screen if you're logged in. 
• Click on  Settings  (either from the top of the Scholar home page, or from the drop-down on the right hand side of the results page).

Choose  Library Links .

Type ‘East Stroudsburg University’ into the search box.

Click the boxes next to “ESU” and "Kemp Library"

Click  Save .

If you have other institutions you're affilitated with, or ResearchGate, you can add them too!

Getting to Google Scholar Settings:

The Library Link Screen: Search, Select and Save!

What your search results will look like: 

 Add / Reorder  

Databases have more sophisticated search features than Google Scholar , but if you have a one or two word topic Google Scholar can be useful.  You can also try using the Advanced Search in Google Scholar (see the first video below). 

However, if you're having trouble finding something specific, i.e. a specific article, try Google Scholar. For example you want " Game of Thrones and Graffiti" and you don't see it in a database, search the title of the article in Google Scholar (here you'd search "Game of Thrones and Graffiti"). You may find it freely available OR discover it is available through the library, but in a database you didn't look at. 

If we don't have it and you can't access it on Google Scholar, you can always request it via interlibrary loan .

"If Google Scholar isn’t turning up what you need, try an open Google search with the article title in quotes, and type the added filter “filetype:pdf”. This scours the open web for papers hosted somewhere, by someone, in PDF format. Google Books provides limited preview access to many copyrighted books. Other alternate services include  SemanticScholar ,  Microsoft Academic ,  Dimensions , or  GetTheResearch . Here too there are subject-specific portals like  EconBiz  or the  Virtual Health Library , some of which offer multilingual search options." -  Paragraph taken from A Wikipedia Librarian. 

The other services like Microsoft Academic mentioned above are also useful when looking for freely available journal article and research! Don't forget to cite everything you use in your paper/project/presentation/etc. 

Google Scholar Videos

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new window Subscription database. Single access point for North American dissertations and theses with significant and growing international coverage. & more less... Includes citations for materials from the first U.S. dissertation (1861) to those accepted as recently as last semester. Starting in 1997 full-text is often available. If full-text is not available information about ordering the document is provided.
• PQDT Open Open access dissertations from the ProQuest database. ( North America .)
• CRL Guide to Dissertations Center for Research Libraries guide to foreign dissertations.
• EThOS This link opens in a new window & more less... EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. Register for free to download theses and dissertations.
• Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) Contains brief citations for theses and dissertations completed in African universities.
• Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD) IBICT ETD initiative for Brazilian theses and dissertations.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) This link opens in a new window & more less... International organization for ETDs.
• Theses Canada Portal Central access point for Canadian theses. See ProQuest database also.
• SUDOC: Système Universitaire de Documentation This link opens in a new window Union catalog for over 3000 French universities & more less... The combined catalogs of French academic libraries. See also the Bibliothèque Nationale de France .
• Digitaler Dissertationen in Deutschland This link opens in a new window A gateway to online dissertation sites of many German universities. & more less... A gateway to online dissertation sites of many German universities.
• Tesionline This link opens in a new window Italian service from the Corriere della sera. & more less... Provides bibliographic and full text access to over 8,000 Italian theses and dissertations, from the bachelors level to doctoral dissertations.
• DART-Europe This link opens in a new window Portal for European ETDs. & more less... Portal for European Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
• Base de datos de tesis doctorales (TESEO) Covers theses completed at Spanish universities.
• Theses en ligne This link opens in a new window & more less... Llimited in content, but provides access to the full text of some French dissertations.

Obtaining Dissertations the Library Does Not Hold

Current University of Chicago faculty, students, and staff may borrow dissertations and theses by placing an interlibrary loan request .

Dissertations from U.S. or Canadian Institutions

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses contains records for most North American doctoral dissertations. To locate dissertations of interest, search by keyword.  Select More Search Options or use the Advanced search interface to search for terms in specific fields (Author, School, etc.).  Note that some fields (Abstract, Advisor, Committee Member, Department) will not work for dissertations produced before a certain date.  Most titles submitted since 1997 are available online.

The Theses Canada Portal provides additional information about Canadian theses.

Dissertations from Academic Institutions Outside the U.S.

Dissertations and theses from institutions outside the United States and Canada can sometimes be challenging to obtain. The Center for Research Libraries has a large collection of foreign dissertations. We borrow material from them, and in many cases interlibrary loan staff will ask CRL to acquire material they do not hold. See the CRL guide to dissertations for additional information.

Other Sources for Identifying Dissertations

While ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and the CRL Guide to Dissertations are good starting points, many of the Library's subscription databases contain records for dissertations. Along with the records for books and other material, WorldCat contains records for dissertations or theses held by member libraries. Most of the major subject-specific indexes (such as PsycINFO, SciFinder Scholar, or Sociological Abstracts) will also include citations for dissertations. Some of the Library's research guides mention additional sources.

The Library also has some print sources and bibliographies which you may use to locate dissertations. Locate these sources by searching the Library Catalog using the subject term Dissertations, Academic in either the subject keyword search or the Begins with subject search option. If you are looking for dissertations from a specific country, you can add the country into your search terms (i.e. Dissertations, Academic -- Mexico ).

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The first thesis was defended at FTU on March 15, 1972. It was written by John M. Bateman and was titled " Computer Method for Airport Noise Exposure Forecast ."

The first dissertation, titled " An Associative Backend Machine for Data Base Management ," was defended in November, 1980, and it was a Ph.D. in Computer Science awarded to Alireza Hurson.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Starting in Fall 2004, as a result of UCF’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Initiative, ETD was made mandatory for graduate students. They began submitting ETDs during the Spring semester of 2004; electronic submission was required beginning in the Fall semester of 2004.

These titles are searchable in STARS , and may be searched by title, author, keyword, college, and  advisor or committee chair .  In most cases, the full-text is available, however some are restricted to use only while on a UCF campus.

Browse STARS for all ETDs:  http://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd

Browse all Masters Theses here:  https://stars.library.ucf.edu/masterstheses

Browse all Doctoral Dissertations here:  https://stars.library.ucf.edu/doctoraldissertations

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (RTDs)

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (RTDs) are scanned copies of theses and dissertations previously published only in print. 

For more information about the project or to learn about how to get your thesis or dissertation digitized, please visit the RTD website in STARS, read the  FAQ , or contact the  project coordinator .

The Library owns 2 print copies of most titles written through 2004: one copy in the General Collection which may be checked out, and one non-circulating copy in Special Collections.  The library also has one circulating copy of most theses and dissertations written between 2004 and 2007. Beginning in 2008, UCF no longer required students to submit a printed copy of any graduate thesis or dissertation.

Browse STARS for all print-only and retrospectively digitized theses and dissertations:  https://stars.library.ucf.edu/rtd/

Where to Find Print Copies at the Hitt Library

All print copies of UCF's theses and dissertations at the John C. Hitt Library are located in the ARC and only available by request. These items can be searched and requested using the UCF Libraries Catalog.

Theses and Dissertations Written before 1988: 

• Fully cataloged with keyword, author, and title access
• Subject specific Library of Congress subject headings. 
• Unique Library of Congress call number and held in the ARC.

Theses and Dissertations Written from 1988 to 1999:

• Partially cataloged: author, title, and keyword
• Very general subject headings, not subject specific
• Held in the ARC

Theses and Dissertations Written from 1999 to Fall 2007:

• Fully cataloged with keyword, author and title access
• Subject specific Library of Congress subject headings

Browse the Library Catalog for ALL graduate theses written at Florida Technological University (1972-1978)

Browse the Library Catalog for ALL graduate theses and dissertations written at UCF (1979-present)

Search tips for the Library Catalog:

Select the Advanced Search option.

• Use the first search line to enter a search term regarding the title, author, subject, or other information. Select the appropriate field to search from the drop down menu
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Many dissertations and theses contain instruments, or portions of instruments, in their appendices. Seeing the instrument is likely to help you decide if it will be useful for your own research. Remember, you still need to obtain permission from the original author of the instrument to use it.

It's best to have the name of the instrument that interests you, and search in the full text of the documents to locate it. Because you're searching very lengthy documents, use the full name, not an acronym. The following dissertation sources are not good places to search by topic for possible instruments to use.

Searching By Title

Approach all the search tools below by searching for the title of your instrument in quotation marks. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses and the UConn dissertation and theses archives, this is a full text search that will locate the instrument if it's mentioned anywhere in the document, including the references and appendices. In the open access repositories listed below, typically only information about a document is searched, so the instrument name must be mentioned in the abstract or other descriptive data.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Search and download the full text of doctoral dissertations completed in the U.S. Also includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Contains the full text of most UConn dissertations from 1996-2012 as well as citations going back to 1965.
• University of Connecticut Theses and Dissertations Search and download the full text of UConn theses and dissertations from 2013 to the present, with older materials from 1922-2013 added regularly.
• UConn Doctoral Dissertations via Digital Commons Search and download the full text of UConn dissertations submitted between 2013 and 2020.
• UConn Masters' Theses via Digital Commons Search and download the full text of UConn masters' theses submitted between 2013 and 2020.

There are a number of tools that let you search for open access dissertations across many institutional repositories. Anyone can download and read these documents. As a reminder, because they generally search only information about the documents, not the full text, so if the instrument is not mentioned in the abstract, you probably won't find it.

• EBSCO Open Dissertations Search thousands of open access dissertations.
• Global ETD Search Search electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations A resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
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Dissertations at UCLA and Beyond

• Classical Dissertations and Theses in Progress in North America and the United Kingdom (latest: October 2003) Available online but no longer maintained.
• Collection of Dissertations on Greek and Roman Antiquity, 1813-1939 (coll. 357t). Approximately 1500, mostly German, dissertations (1813-1939) concerned with classical antiquity. The finding aid includes both author and text, subject and name indexes.
• Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign Dissertations Search the CRL Catalog for dissertations already held at the Center. If a foreign dissertation is not at CRL, UCLA's Interlibrary Loan Service will request that CRL acquire it for your use. This special issue of Focus on Global Resources describes CRL's extensive collection of foreign dissertations.
• eScholarship, University of California This link opens in a new window UC's open access repository. Contains books, journals, working papers, conference publications, postprints, theses, and dissertations.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations This international organization promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic analogues to traditional paper-based theses and dissertations in order to more effectively share knowledge.
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2024-2025 Doctoral Dissertation Fellows

The graduate school is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 ddf fellowship recipients.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024-2025 DDF Fellowship! The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year.

Hamidreza Alai 

Mechanical Engineering Advisor(s): Rajesh Rajamani "Vehicle Tracking Based on Low-Cost Sensors: Applications to Micromobility Devices and Autonomous Vehicles"

Joshua Althoff

History Advisor(s): David Chang, Jean O'Brien "Vincennes in Myaamionki: Constructing and Contesting Indiana's Past in Miami Homelands"

Harsha Anantharaman

Geography Advisor(s): Vinay Gidwani "Exclusionary Inclusion: How Caste and Capital Logics Shape the Politics of Recognition, Formalization, and Infrastructural Reform in Contemporary Urban India"

Elizabeth Ancel

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Advisor(s): Benjamin Munson "Say exactly what I say: Social considerations for children’s performance in sentence repetition tasks"

Taiwo Aremu

Social and Administrative Pharmacy Advisor(s): Jon Schommer "Key Components for Planning and Developing New Pharmaceutical Enterprise that Produces the COVID-19 Vaccine in Nigeria for Local Uptake"

Amber Armstrong

Education, Curriculum and Instruction Advisor(s): Erin Baldinger "Learning the Nonlinear Dynamics of Climate Change through Mathematics Instruction"

Athanasios Bacharis

Computer Science Advisor(s): Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos "Efficient Robotic Automation Leveraging Optimal Visual and Language Information"

Kaylee Barr

Chemical Engineering Advisor(s): Theresa Reineke, Frank Bates "Design and synthesis of bottlebrush polymers for improved oral drug delivery"

Jessica Barry

Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Advisor(s): Angela Birnbaum "Prediction of fetal exposure of anti-seizure medication dosing during pregnancy through the development of physiologically-based models for prediction of lamotrigine exposure"

Anu Bompelli

Social and Administrative Pharmacy Advisor(s): Angeline Carlson "Postpartum Depression: Racial and Geographical Disparities, Social Determinants, and Healthcare Utilization Patterns in the United States"

Michael burns

Applied Plant Sciences Advisor(s): Candice Hirsch "Quantifying maize kernel attributes affecting quality in masa-based products"

Biostatistics Advisor(s): Weihua Guan, Tianzhong Yang "Statistical Models for Understanding Genetic and Genomic Foundations of Childhood Cancers: A Focus on Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"

sydney Carpentier

Rehabilitation Science Advisor(s): Ann Van de Winckel "Development of a Novel Evaluation Scale for Mental Body Representations (MBR) in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury

Epidemiology Advisor(s): Erin Marcotte "The effects of policy and neighborhood-level social determinants of health on childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia survival disparities"

Seohyeon choi

Educational Psychology Advisor(s): Kristen McMaster "Toward the Fair and Valid Use of Curriculum-Based Measurement in Writing with Struggling Writers From Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds"

husrev Cilasun

Electrical Engineering Advisor(s): Ulya Karpuzcu "Computing with Spins: The Good, the Bad, and the Odd"

Houda cohen

Integrative Biology and Physiology Advisor(s): Joseph Metzger, Xavier Revelo "Mechanism of Innate Immunity Activation and Inflammation Onset in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy"

Leah Costik

Political Science Advisor(s): Tanisha Fazal "Taking Care of Fighters: Rebel Groups and their Provision of Medical Care to Fighters"

korbyn Dahlquist

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Advisor(s): Christina Camell "Cytotoxicity, exhaustion, and immunosenescence in CD8+ T cells during aging"

karin de Langis

Computer Science Advisor(s): Dongyeop Kang "Cognitively Informed Natural Language Generation"

Lang DeLancey

Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Advisor(s): Sarah Hobbie, Peter Kennedy "Fungal controls on forest soil carbon storage under climate change"

Brylon Denman

Chemistry Advisor(s): Courtney Roberts "Inducing Regioselecitivty in Metal-Bound Arynes Reactions via Catalyst Control"

Sheetal Digari

Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development Advisor(s): Joan DeJaeghere, Bhaskar Upadhyay "Racialized and Sexualized Bodies: Northeastern Indian Students’ Experiences in Higher Educational Institutions"

Rashida Doctor

Earth Sciences Advisor(s): Joshua Feinberg "Approaches in rock magnetic analysis: Insights into remanence acquisition, sea-level reconstruction, and advancement of techniques"

Jolene duda

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Advisor(s): Stefani Thomas "Histone Deacetylase Proteins as Therapeutic Targets in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer"

Alexis Elfstrum

Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Advisor(s): Kaylee Schwertfeger "LYVE-1+ macrophages modulate the extracellular matrix and contribute to mammary tumor growth"

Rae Fox-charles

Education, Curriculum and Instruction Advisor(s): Betsy Maloney Leaf "The Three Rs: An Intergenerational Exploration of Black Womanhood in Education & Dance"

Colin Freilich

Psychology Advisor(s): Bob Krueger "Associations between Loneliness, Epigenetic Age Acceleration, and Chronic Physical Health Conditions at Midlife"

chloe gansen

Mass Communication Advisor(s): Rebekah Nagler "Responses to Politicized News Media Coverage About Health and Science: What is the role of perceived controversy?"

Physics Advisor(s): Maxim Pospelov "CP-violating observables within and beyond the Standard Model"

Megan Goeke

Educational Psychology Advisor(s): David DeLiema "Tree Climbing: Attunement to material contribution during playful climbing"

anna Graefe

Nursing Advisor(s): Carolyn Porta "Are We Preparing Nursing Students to Address Health Equity? A Mixed Methods Study of Baccalaureate Nursing Programs"

bria gresham

Child Psychology Advisor(s): Canan Karatekin, Megan Gunnar "How neighborhoods shape health from adolescence to adulthood: An examination of age-varying effects and change over time"

Abby Guthmann

Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Advisor(s): Craig Packer "Understanding human-wildlife interactions in a shared savanna landscape: impacts of cattle on wild herbivores spatiotemporal dynamics"

abigail hall

Anthropology Advisor(s): Kieran McNulty "The Ecological Context of Early Ape Evolution"

Arshia Zernab Hassan

Computer Science Advisor(s): Chad Myers "Computational methods for chemical genetic networks to discover precision cancer drugs"

stephanie Heidorn

Design Advisor(s): Brad Hokanson "The Effect of Creative Problem Solving Training on Students’ Creative and Critical Thinking Skills and Dispositions"

martin Herrera Perez

Mechanical Engineering Advisor(s): James Van de Ven "Flow and Torque Ripple Reduction in Positive Displacement Pumps and Motors"

hopewell hodges

Child Psychology Advisor(s): Ann Masten, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan "Resilience Processes in Twin Cities Immigrant and Refugee Children"

madeline honig

Chemistry Advisor(s): Phillipe Buhlmann "Expanding the Working Ranges and Applications of Ion Selective Electrodes"

Computer Science Advisor(s): Zhi-Li Zhang "Domain-Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning for Networked Systems"

Kazi Ranjibul islam

Physics Advisor(s): Andrey Chubukov "Interplay between nematicity and superconductivity in iron-based high temperature superconductors, application to doped FeSe"

Education, Curriculum and Instruction Advisor(s): Vichet Chhuon "The Problematics of Becoming Asian American: Karen Students in U.S. Schools"

mariel jones

Water Resources Science Advisor(s): Xue Feng "Towards Understanding Coupled Snow and Soil Frost Behavior in Peatland Landscapes"

brooke Kern

Plant and Microbial Biology Advisor(s): Dave Moeller "The role of mating system transitions in flowering plant speciation"

Alireza Khataei

Electrical Engineering Advisor(s): Kia Bazargan "Self-Similarity-Based Computing"

Daehyun kim

Mechanical Engineering Advisor(s): Jeff Tithof "Novel Strategies to Address Neurological Disorders through Numerical Simulation of Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage"

Hannah jo King

Natural Resources Science and Management Advisor(s): Mae Davenport "Homesteaders to Harvesters: Case Studies in Black and Indigenous Reparative Environmental Justice"

lucas kramer

Computer Science Advisor(s): Eric Van Wyk "Enabling Practical Modular Language Specifications"

sachin kumar

Mechanical Engineering Advisor(s): Uwe Kortshagen "Carbon-Free Iron Ore Reduction using Hydrogen Plasma: Towards Green Steel"

Yeon Joo lee

Business Administration Advisor(s): Karen Donohue "Improving the Sustainability of E-Commerce Logistics through Change in Consumer Behavior"

Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration Advisor(s): Eva Enns, Xiao Zang "Optimizing harm reduction services to prevent drug overdose deaths and improve racial/ethnic health equity among people at risk for drug overdose in Minnesota"

Computer Science Advisor(s): Yao-Yi Chiang "Spatiotemporal Prediction and Forecasting with Multimodal and Multiscale Data"

Anna Mahony

Civil Engineering Advisor(s): Bill Arnold "Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) in wastewater and the environment: Quantification and Removal"

Sushmita Majumder

Materials Science and Engineering Advisor(s): Nathan Mara, Calvin Sun  "Fundamental understanding of mechanical behavior in pharmaceutical crystals for accelerated drug manufacturing"

Doneila McIntosh

Family Social Science Advisor(s): Chalandra Bryant "African American Bereavement: How Do Youth and Families Navigate Loss?"

greta McKeever

Theatre Arts Advisor(s): Margaret Werry, Sonali Pahwa "Housewives, Writers, and Communists: Staging Domesticity in Imperial Germany to Make Labor Visible"

Kevin McKiernan

Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media Advisor(s): Christine Marran "The Stakes of Tricontinental Cinema: Radical Politics and Aesthetics in the Global 1960s"

Hannah Murphy

Comparative and Molecular Biosciences Advisor(s): Yuying Liang, Hinh Ly "New Insights into the Biology and Composition of Medically Important Viruses"

Sreejith Thampan nair

Chemical Engineering Advisor(s): Bharat Jalan "Engineering thin film synthesis and electronic properties of iridium-based oxides"

Noah Nathan Kochen

Biomedical Engineering Advisor(s): Jonathan Sachs "Investigation of fibril cavity amino acids and small molecules as modulators of selfassembly and toxicity of neurodegeneration-related proteins"

kayla nelson

Child Psychology Advisor(s): Sylia Wilson, Ann Masten "A Causally- and Genetically-Informed Approach to Depression and Substance Use Comorbidity During Adolescence and the Role of the Parent-Child Relationship"

huy Nguyen

Chemical Engineering Advisor(s): Matthew Neurock "First-principles Insights into The Catalytic Conversions of CO2 to Value-added Chemicals and Fuels"

mary O'Brien McAdaragh

Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development Advisor(s): Stuart Yeh "Public Narrative and Its Relationship to Traumatic Stress: Applying Evaluative Thinking and Problem Definition to a Critical Social Issue"

Moyosore Orimoloye

Medicinal Chemistry Advisor(s): Courtney Aldrich "Chemical Probes for the Identification and Validation of Targets in Mycobacterial Metabolism"

matthew pAwlak

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Advisor(s): Wendy Gordon "The Development and Utilization of High Throughput Methods of Mechanotypying"

Taylor Price

Plant and Microbial Biology Advisor(s): Trinity Hamilton "Microbial diversity across spatial and temporal scales in high mountain watersheds of the Teton Range, USA"

Conservation Sciences Advisor(s): Joseph Bump "Unraveling the Ecological Complexity of Yellowstone's Large Mammal Predator-Prey Dynamics"

Viktor Radermacher

Earth Sciences Advisor(s): Pete Makovicky "The Macroevolution of the Ornithischian Dental Battery"

Mskwaankwad Rice

Linguistics Advisor(s): Claire Halpert "Ge-gikendamang Enwewaad Netaa-anishnaabemojig: linguistic analysis of clause type in of Ojibwe language reclamation"

angela Ricono

Plant and Microbial Biology Advisor(s): Kathleen Greenham "Integrating time of day dynamics into transcriptomic and metabolic networks to improve crop performance"

christopher Robertson

Sociology Advisor(s): Michelle Phelps "Covenanted-Policing: Policing, Spatial Racism, and Health (In)Equity in Minneapolis, MN"

chris seong

Chemistry Advisor(s): Courtney Roberts "Advances in Modern and Traditional Methods for Pharmaceutically Relevant C–C and C–N Bond Formation"

yuting shan

Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Advisor(s): R. Stephanie Huang "Deciphering Sex Differences in Tumor Progression and Cancer Treatment Response by Studying Intratumoral Microbiome-Host Interactions"

jaan Sharma Pathak

Geography Advisor(s): Vinay Gidwani, Bruce Braun "A State of Uncertainty: Flood and Erosion Management in the Brahmaputra Valley (India)"

anala shetty

Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics Advisor(s): Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia, Walter Low "Overcoming barriers to organ generation for transplantation therapy through interspecies chimerism"

Nikoleta (Nika) sremac

Sociology Advisor(s): Joachim Savelsberg, Alejandro Baer "History in Whose Hands? Women's Collective Memory of the Yugoslav Wars in Serbia"

Chowdhury Tasnova "Nova" Tahsin

Rehabilitation Science Advisor(s): Manda Keller-Ross, Ida Fonkoue "Sympathetic Regulation and Endothelial Function in Postmenopausal Females with Sleep Disturbance"

Sneha Venkatachalapathy

Chemistry Advisor(s): Mark Distefano "Building the Protein-Drug Revolution"

sarah Wahby

Public Affairs Advisor(s): Ragui Assaad "The nexus of climate change, migration and conflict in Sudan"

elijah wallace

History Advisor(s): Andrea Sterk "Saints, Soldiers, and Society in the Late Roman West: Reassessing the End of Empire in Italy and Illyricum"

Family Social Science Advisor(s): Stacey Horn "Perceptions and Meaning-Making of Homophobic Language Among Mandarin-Speaking Adolescents"

Zijian wang

Pharmaceutics Advisor(s): Changquan Sun "Tabeletability Flip of Drugs upon Formulation"

dillon williams

Biomedical Engineering Advisor(s): David Wood "Defining the mechanics and kinetics of red blood cell sickling in sickle cell disease"

murphi williams

Chemistry Advisor(s): Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran "Modulating the structure and function of bacterial heme proteins"

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Doctoral candidate Lanyu Shang successfully defended her dissertation, "A Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence Approach Towards Equality, Well-Being, and Responsibility in Sustainable Communities," on June 19.

Her doctoral committee included Associate Professor Dong Wang (chair); Assistant Professor Jessie Chin; Ximing Cai, professor of civil and environmental engineering; and Na Wei, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

Abstract: This dissertation introduces a human-centric artificial intelligence for sustainable communities (HAI4SC) approach that harnesses the complementary strengths of artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence (HI) to foster equality, well-being, and responsibility. AI has shown superiority in processing large amounts of data, identifying latent patterns, and making predictions, addressing the scalability and complexity of sustainability challenges. On the other hand, HI excels in providing context, domain expertise, and human-centric insights, which are essential for understanding the complex social and physical factors for community sustainability. This dissertation develops a holistic HAI4SC approach by addressing three fundamental challenges: multimodality, adaptability, and trustworthiness. First, we develop a multimodal information fusion system to seamlessly integrate multimodal content in enhancing community information credibility. Moreover, we design an adaptive cross-domain analytic framework that explicitly incorporates and adapts domain knowledge from well-studied source domains for improving the resilience and well-being of sustainable communities. Additionally, we develop a trustworthy social-physical knowledge distillation scheme that effectively models the diverse and uncertain human inputs from community stakeholders to strengthen the community responsibility and sustainability.

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Joonyoung Cho Successfully Defends Dissertation

June 25, 2024.

Joonyoung Cho successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Aging in the Right Place: Effects from Relocation and Homebound Status.” His committee included Ruth Dunkle (co-chair) and Xiaoling Xiang. 

Cho has accepted an assistant professor position at the Center on Aging in the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa.

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