Research Guides: Graduate Students' Guide to Library Resources and Services : Find Theses and Dissertations

Dissertations and Theses Resources

At UC Libraries

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (UC Electronic)
Access to a body of well over 8,000 University of Cincinnati electronic dissertations and theses, this is the best link to the broadest collection of electronic UC dissertations. The time period covers mainly from 1955 to the present. To acquire the dissertations electronically, users request the full text from UMI (ProQuest) and are sent a link and a password to access the dissertation. Dissertations from 1997 forward are available in the OhioLINK ETD at ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations). Coverage: 1955 to present
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. Coverage: 1861 - present
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Center (OhioLINK)
Electronic Thesis and Dissertations.

Center for Research Libraries (non-US dissertations)
Use ILLiad to request. Some dissertations are available online.
Inter-Library Loan Service (ILLiad)
If the dissertation is not available or digitized, use the Thesis/Dissertation form in ILLiad to request through interlibrary loan.

On the Public Web

British Library EThOS - Search and order these online
"Search over 480,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily."
DART - Europe E-theses Portal
Open access portal to theses from 400+ European universities.
eScholarship University of California
"eScholarship® provides scholarly publishing and repository services that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship."
Global ETD Search (NDLTD)
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).
OATD - Open Access Theses and Dissertations
"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."
PDTQ Open
Open access collection within ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses.

ETD Help -- UC Graduate School

The Graduate School ETD Informaton Web site provides an ETD submission time line, submission requirements and an FAQ page that addresses a wide range of formatting, PDF creation and publishing questions.

ETD Help Desk

Location:	110 Van Wormer Hall University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221
E-mail:	gradhelpdesk@uc.edu
Phone:	513- 556-1496