Finding Theses & Dissertations
UMBC Theses & Dissertations
- UMBC Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
Find full-text theses and dissertations submitted by UMBC graduate students since April, 2007.
NOTE: off-campus access to full-text is only possible through the UMBC VPN.
Search Tips- Use Advanced Search to find theses & dissertations by academic department.
- Clear all Collections except UMBC Electronic Theses and Dissertations
- Search by Selected Fields to search by UMBC departments (select field = UMBC Departments)
- To limit search to either thesis or dissertation (select field = Document Type)
- Use Advanced Search to find theses & dissertations by academic department.
- Bound UMBC Theses & Dissertations
To find bound theses and dissertations submitted by UMBC graduate students you will need to search the UMBC library catalog
NOTE: Original copies are kept in Special Collections.
Dissertations only from 1976 - 2007: A second copy is available in the circulating collection: FOLIO LD3231.M6954d-- (5th floor).
Search Tips - This search works best if you know the author or title- search for words in... thesis institution/place and enter Baltimore County as a two-word phrase AND
- search for words in... Author and enter the author's last name
- OR - search for words in... Title and enter keywords from the title
- search for words in... thesis institution/place and enter Baltimore County as a two-word phrase AND
Other Sources for Theses & Dissertations
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Coverage: Some Full Text
Indexes and abstracts dissertations and theses primarily from the U.S and Canada, some international; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. Full text available for dissertations published since 1997 (1991 from UMBC) are available as PDFs. (Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI)
British Library EthOS : Electronic theses online service
EThOS provides a single point of access to all theses produced by UK Higher Education. Note: First time users must register before ordering/downloading.
- Australasian Digital Theses Program
Coverage: 2000-
The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The theses will be available worldwide via the web. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community. - DART-Europe E-theses Portal
Coverage: current
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). - Hong Kong LIS Dissertations and Theses Collections (DTC)
Coverage: Some Full Text
Dissertations and Theses Collections (DTC) is an online union collection of Hong Kong postgraduate students’ doctoral and master dissertations and theses indexed in the online catalogs of seven university libraries in Hong Kong. Includes some online full text. - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Also includes links to other useful ETD search tools.
