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Harvard University Theses, Dissertations, and Prize Papers

The Harvard University Archives ’ collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University’s history.

Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research institution as well as the development of numerous academic fields. They are also an important source of biographical information, offering insight into the academic careers of the authors.

Spanning from the ‘theses and quaestiones’ of the 17th and 18th centuries to the current yearly output of student research, they include both the first Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (by William Byerly, Ph.D . 1873) and the dissertation of the first woman to earn a doctorate from Harvard ( Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson , Ed.D. 1922).

Other highlights include:

• The collection of Mathematical theses, 1782-1839
• The 1895 Ph.D. dissertation of W.E.B. Du Bois, The suppression of the African slave trade in the United States, 1638-1871
• Ph.D. dissertations of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Ph.D. 1925) and physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Ph.D. 1922)
• Undergraduate honors theses of novelist John Updike (A.B. 1954), filmmaker Terrence Malick (A.B. 1966),  and U.S. poet laureate Tracy Smith (A.B. 1994)
• Undergraduate prize papers and dissertations of philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson (A.B. 1821), George Santayana (Ph.D. 1889), and W.V. Quine (Ph.D. 1932)
• Undergraduate honors theses of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (A.B. 1940) and Chief Justice John Roberts (A.B. 1976)

What does a prize-winning thesis look like?

If you're a Harvard undergraduate writing your own thesis, it can be helpful to review recent prize-winning theses. The Harvard University Archives has made available for digital lending all of the Thomas Hoopes Prize winners from the 2019-2021 academic years.

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The International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER) is a US based Journal dedicated to disseminating scholarly theses to a global academic audience. We provide a platform where Master's and Doctoral research thesis papers can be published and accessed by a global audience of fellow researchers, students, and academics.

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Begin by completing our Thesis submission form to obtain a unique ID for your work. Our dedicated Editorial Team will review your paper and get back to you within 3 business days.

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About OATD.org

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 7,206,043 theses and dissertations.

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We’re happy to present several data visualizations to give an overall sense of the OATD.org collection by county of publication, language, and field of study.

You may also want to consult these sites to search for other theses:

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• NDLTD , the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. NDLTD provides information and a search engine for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), whether they are open access or not.
• Proquest Theses and Dissertations (PQDT), a database of dissertations and theses, whether they were published electronically or in print, and mostly available for purchase. Access to PQDT may be limited; consult your local library for access information.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

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. 

Increasing Discovery & Usage of ETD Research

With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions 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.

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.

How Does EBSCO Open Dissertations Work?

Libraries can add theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to their institutional repository.  ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to the institution's IR.

EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .

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OATD.org provides 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 6,654,285 theses and dissertations.

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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 4,678,222 theses and dissertations.

Ebsco open dissertations.

EBSCO Open Dissertations now includes the content from  American Doctoral Dissertations.  It is freely available to researchers everywhere with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.

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Collection of theses and other research created by the academic community of CAMP. Researchers can only use all theses and other research submitted by CAMP students, faculty, and staff within the library's premises.

Accessibility of each CAMP Thesis depends on the access permission and limitations authors have assigned to their studies as stated on their study's Public Access Information Page.

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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.

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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 are dissertations and theses.

A doctoral  diss ertation is a paper written as part of the requirements to earn a doctoral degree such as a Ph.D or Ed.D.  Dissertations generally address a research question that no one has investigated and published about before, and they are generally subject to a "defense" before a committee of experts at the school before considered complete.

A master's thesis is a paper written as part of the requirements to earn a master's degree.  Thesis papers may take a variety of forms, but most typically may represent a thorough mastery and novel synthesis of the published literature and available knowledge on a topic.

Many dissertations and theses are available at Murphy Library as summarized here. Copies of those unavailable at Murphy Library can often be borrowed through interlibrary loan  (ILL; use the Dissertation/Thesis Request form). Dissertations are more likely to be available through ILL than master's theses.

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• Dissertation Express (ProQuest) Over 2 million dissertations and theses from graduate schools around the world since 1938 are available for purchase as PDF download, unbound, softcover, hardcover, microfilm, or microfiche.
• Dissertation.com Some dissertations and theses may be identified and purchased from this alternative publisher.
• Global ETD Search From the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), which aims to build a comprehensive gateway to all doctoral and master-level theses and dissertations, worldwide.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) Access to more than 1.6 million open-access theses and dissertations freely available from over 800 institutions worldwide.
• PQDT Open An online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The full text – in PDF format – of each open access graduate work is available to any researcher for free.

UWL Theses and other Graduate Student Research Papers

Many UWL graduate student theses and other papers are available, either online or in print.  Print copies are listed in the Murphy Library Catalog ; digital copies are included in the  Digital Collections at UW System Libraries .

Master's Theses  by UWL graduate students are available online in the  UW-L Master's Theses collection in MINDS@UW (when authors have granted permission). 

Print copies (1958- ) are kept in Special Collections, shelved at the call number: WT

Circulating copies (1958-2013) can be found in the second floor stacks, shelved at the call number: WT

Action Learning / Graduate Projects  by UWL graduate students are available online in the  UW-L Master's Theses collection in MINDS@UW (when authors have granted permission). 

Print copies (1979-2009) are kept in Special Collections, shelved at the call number: W X

Circulating copies (1979-2008) can be found in the second floor stacks, shelved at the call number: W X

Seminar Papers  by UWL graduate students are available online in the UW-L Seminar Papers collection in MINDS@UW (when authors have granted permission). 

Print copies (1957-2010) are kept in Special Collections, shelved at the call number: WS

Software Engineering Manuscripts by UWL graduate students are available online in the  UW-L Manuscripts (Software Engineering)  collection in MINDS@UW (when authors have granted permission).

Learning Community Project Summaries by UWL graduate students (MEPD program, 2000-2001) can be found in Special Collections, shelved at the call number:  WY

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More Dissertations & Theses available at Murphy Library

Some copies of dissertations and theses that were written by students at other schools are available at the library.  These are listed in the Murphy Library Catalog .

Our holdings include thousands of theses and dissertations published on microfiche by University of Oregon Microform Publications, later known as Oregon Microform Publications in Sport and Human Performance, and now known as OregonPDF in Health & Performance.

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