ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world’s largest multidisciplinary database for electronic theses and dissertations. The database contains over 5 million citations and 2.7 million full text works. The intuitive platform is specially designed for finding dissertations and theses with search fields for specific institutions, advisors, and subject categories. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is useful for current graduate students in any discipline to see samples of other dissertations and theses in their field, for researchers to find the most recent research on a particular topic, and for conducting research on theses and dissertations as a genre

It Doesn\u27t Take a Rocket Scientist: Navigating the Universe of Theses and Dissertations at the University of Central Florida

Theses and Dissertations at the University of Central Florida are a giant mess of a universe, consisting of galaxies of both print and electronic, undergraduate honors theses, and graduate theses and dissertations. We have a large galaxy of legacy, print-only theses and dissertations, the galaxy of retrospectively scanned theses and dissertations is growing slowly but steadily, and our born-digital theses and dissertation galaxy, started in 2004 (graduate) and 2011 (undergraduate honors), is maintained in two, soon to be three, different programs. This combination of galaxies has made it difficult for students, faculty, and librarians to search and use our universe of over 10,000 undergraduate honors theses and graduate theses and dissertations. This poster will demonstrate how we are working to streamline these galaxies into one, public-facing universe for all theses and dissertations, making them more visible to the wider community

Transgenre Theses & Dissertations

Lightning talk for Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) at Purdue University on May 23, 2019

Citation Analysis of Engineering Graduate Student Theses Indicates Students Are Using More Electronic Resources

Objective - To determine the citation pattern of graduate students' theses and dissertations. Design - Citation analysis. Setting - An institutional repository at a South African university of technology. Subjects - 201 Engineering Master's theses and Doctoral dissertations. Methods - A random sample of Master's theses and Doctoral dissertations from the Faculty of Engineering were analyzed. The theses and dissertations were drawn from the institutional repository covering the period 2005-2014. Refe