Instructional Resources

Dissertations

• Dissertations held at UCLA Library
• Dissertation Databases
• How to obtain copies of UCLA dissertations (for non-UC users)
• How do I find UCLA's dissertations for the graduates of a specific department sorted by year?
• UCLA Policies and Procedures for Thesis and Dissertation Preparation and Filing
• Thesis and Dissertation Advisor
• Dissertation Calculator (from University of Minnesota)

For dissertations and theses, primarily UCLA’s, search the UCLA Library Catalog. The full-text of UC dissertations (1996+ ) are available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.

Dissertation Databases

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, formerly ProQuest Digital Dissertations

Index to doctoral dissertations from 1861 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. In addition to the full text of dissertations and theses from University of California campuses since 1997, UCLA now has access to all full text dissertations in the database. If the full text is not available, UCLA students, faculty, and staff may request non-UCLA dissertations on interlibrary loan rather than purchase dissertations. The Dissertation Abstracts and Digital Dissertations databases are produced by the Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company (formerly University Microfilms, UMI).

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses

Provides access to over 5,000,000 dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries; UCLA Library is an OCLC member library. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution. UCLA students, faculty, and staff may request non-UCLA dissertations on interlibrary loan.

Center for Research Libraries Foreign Dissertations

Search the CRL Catalog for dissertations already held at the Center. If a foreign dissertation is not at CRL, UCLA's interibrary 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.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic analogues to traditional paper-based theses and dissertations with the goal to more effectively share knowledge.

British Library EThOS

EThOS is a UK electronic theses online service, currently in beta, launched by the British Library in January 2009. It aims to offer a 'single point of access' where researchers the world over can access all theses produced by UK Higher Education. The database currently contains 250,000+ records with 25,000 open access theses available for immediate download. Theses not available electronically can be requested by researchers which are then scanned and made freely available through EThOS.

Most UCLA PhD dissertations are available for purchase through ProQuest UMI. The UCLA Library does not interlibrary loan materials to individuals unaffiliated with UCLA. However, dissertations are lent to institutions (Information For Borrowing Institutions).

 For UCLA dissertations search the UCLA Library Catalog:

• Click Advanced search
• Type in dissertations "department name" UCLA for example: physics UCLA
• Keep the middle box set at "all of these words"
• Change the right box to "subject"
• Then, sort the results by date.