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University of Miami Theses and Dissertations

University of Miami Libraries hold approximately 9,100 theses and dissertations submitted from 1943 to the present. They can be searched by author and title via Richter’s  Library Online Catalog . The collection is in print format and it is kept at our Off-Campus Storage Facility.

Please request circulation copies of the theses and dissertations by using the “Request” function in the catalog or ask for assistance at the Circulation Desk. Non-UM users may request an item by contacting Access at [email protected] . It will take a day or two for the library to retrieve items from the off-site facility.

Archival copies of the theses and dissertations are managed by the University Archives.  We will not serve patrons with archival copies unless circulation copies are unavailable.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The University of Miami Libraries have digitized over 4,000 theses and dissertations created since 1961 presented by the University of Miami Graduate School, which supports masters-level and doctoral programs on the Coral Gables campus, at the Miller School of Medicine, and at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.  Please go to Scholarship@Miami to access them in PDF format by title, author, and publication year.

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The Undergraduate Honors Theses Collection contains theses written by University of Miami undergraduate students from 1989 to 2010.  University Honors ( summa cum laude, magna cum laude  and  cum laude ) are determined by a minimum GPA unique to the school or college from which the student is graduating. University honors only applies to undergraduate students.

Please visit the Undergraduate Honors Theses collection to research them by title, author, and publication year. The collection is in print format, and it is served at the Special Collections Reading Room.

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Electronic theses & dissertations formatting support subjectid: 690120, conversion guides.

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Welcome to the ETD Formatting Support Guide

The UM Libraries support the University’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) database submission program by providing assistance with the final steps of the process. The ETD Formatting Support service focuses on helping students convert their thesis or dissertation into a properly formatted PDF.  See the Conversion Guides tab above for instructions on using Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat DC Professional to create the final PDF. Below are ways that you can access the ETD Formatting Support Services.

Book half hour or hour appointments with an Information Specialist for basic formatting support online via Zoom. Please describe any issues you are experiencing and upload a document, if applicable, when arranging an appointment. To schedule an appointment, send an email to [email protected] .

Graduate School Guidelines

Be sure to visit the  Graduate School's website  for the most up-to-date guidelines on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Before You Begin Writing Templates and Formatting Guidelines   Post-Defense

Contact the ETD Support Services at [email protected] . Someone will respond to your email within 24-48 hours.

Guidelines for Windows - Microsoft Word

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Guidelines for Macintosh - Microsoft Word

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Formatting your electronic thesis or dissertation, formatting document page numbers, formatting tables in word.

You may need to properly display charts and tables in your dissertation.

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The Universiti Malaya Research Repository is an institutional digital repository of published and unpublished research work produced by the UM researchers provided by The Digital Scholarship and Information Commons .

There are public records in this repository.

UM Research Repository supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.um.edu.my/cgi/oai2

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Thesis/Dissertation Writing

Guidelines for the Preparation of Research Project, Dissertation and Thesis 2023

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Last Update: 21/07/2023

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Database info, guides & training, bachelor theses.

Included is the full text of (a selection of) bachelor theses from the following Maastricht University programmes:

• Global Studies (FASoS), from 2023 onward

Master Theses

Included is the full text of (a selection of) master theses from the following Maastricht University faculties:

• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), from 1994 to 2005, from 2013 onward
• Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), from 2023 onward
• Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG), from 2002 onward
• Maastricht School of Management (MSM), from 2022 onward
• Maastricht Sustainability Institute (MSI),  from 2011 onward
• School of Business & Economics (SBE), from 2016 onward

Access conditions:

• The UM Theses are only open to Maastricht University.
• Some theses are confidential and do not include a pdf with the full text

There are no Guides or trainings for this database at this time.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations

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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 7,230,116 theses and dissertations.

About OATD (our FAQ) .

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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:

• Google Scholar
• 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.

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PERPUN Initiatives

MALAYSIAN THESES ONLINE (MyTO)

MyTO is an electronic theses dissertation (ETD) initiative to manage the collection of theses and dissertations of public and private universities in Malaysia. MyTO was established at the end of 2005 to be a central repository of Malaysian theses and to share the collection of theses between academic libraries in Malaysia electronically. MyTO provides easy access and retrieval through search engines that retrieve accurate search results by simple search, combination of Boolean operators, full-text search and provide the browsing feature. MyTO also provides several format of theses access for the user such as abstract, 24 pages full-text and complete full-text.

MALAYSIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARY INFORMATION RESOURCES: INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY (MALRep)

MALRep is a discovery service that enables searching of the Malaysian Academic Library Institutional Repository from various information databases by using Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Service (OAI-PMH). Authentication required when users are trying to get fulltext documents from third party services esp. commercial information databases. MALRep includes more than 520k records representing digital resources from more than 25 contributors. The records of the open access digital resources available via MALRep lead to a wide range of materials, and include: Journal articles, Newspapers, Manuscripts, Digital text, Photographic images (jpeg, tiff, gif), theses and research papers.

MALAYSIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARY UNION CATALOG (MALCat)

This discovery service are able to search Malaysian Academic Library Union Catalog and institutional repository from various information databases (OAI-PMH Service). Authentication required when users are trying to get fulltext documents from third party services esp. commercial information databases.

Last Update: 24/02/2022

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• Doctoral Dissertation Policies and Procedures
• Master’s Thesis Policies and Procedures

Thesis and Dissertation Release and Embargo Options

• Thesis and Dissertation Formatting Guidelines & Deep Blue Archiving
• Graduate Studies Forms
• Three Minute Thesis Competition
• Graduate Student Appreciation Week

The thesis or dissertation is submitted as public evidence of your scholarly research and accomplishment. A thesis or dissertation and abstract is normally made publicly available upon degree conferral when it is deposited electronically in Deep Blue. If a student wishes to postpone public release of the final product, also called an embargo, the student should discuss this option with his or her faculty advisor. It has always been the university's expectation that every thesis and dissertation and corresponding abstract will be released upon conferral of the degree. Only in specific circumstances may release of a thesis or dissertation be deferred, and then only for a limited period of time. 

The student is responsible for requesting an embargo.

Embargo requests should be submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies via email before the final submission deadline with which the student is working.  

Two embargo options are available: University of Michigan Only Access and Full Restriction. 

A student may independently choose among several levels of embargo for the copy of the thesis or dissertation that can be deposited electronically with ProQuest.

University of Michigan Only Access

A student may choose to restrict access to the dissertation or thesis to members of the University of Michigan community (those with a uniqname and a Kerberos password) for up to one year from the date of degree conferral. The title and abstract will be displayed in online listings of the University of Michigan Library, but the content of the dissertation or thesis will not be available to view or to download.

Embargo Limited Access Form

Full Restriction

A student may seek permission from the Graduate Studies Office for an embargo that restricts all access to the dissertation or thesis for up to one year from the date of degree conferral. Permission will be granted only when:

• The student (or his or her collaborators) is applying for a patent on research contained in the dissertation or thesis and does not wish to make the contents public until the patent application has been filed; or
• The dissertation or thesis includes information that is covered for a limited period of time by a confidentiality agreement or contains third-party proprietary information.  

A dissertation or thesis that is fully restricted is not included in the online listings of the University of Michigan Library and the title and abstract are not available to the public or the university community. A full restriction cannot be extended beyond one year. Unless the graduate requests and is granted permission for an additional year of University of Michigan only access, the dissertation or thesis will be fully released.

Embargo Full Restriction Form

Restriction Renewal Request

At the end of the one year University of Michigan only or full restriction embargo period, graduates may ask the Office of Graduate Studies to postpone full public release for an additional year at the University of Michigan only access level. Full restriction cannot be renewed. Permission from the Office of Graduate Studies is required to renew an embargo.

Permission will be given only for specific reasons, such as the graduate’s intention to publish work from the dissertation or thesis in a journal or book with a publisher that restricts consideration of manuscripts derived from dissertation or thesis that have been made available online. (Please note that most publishers do not have restrictive pre-publication policies.) It is the graduate’s responsibility to request a renewal of the University of Michigan only dissertation or thesis embargo. Permission is not guaranteed. Graduates may ask for up to two annual renewals, for a total of three years of University of Michigan only access (or one year full restriction renewed into two years University of Michigan only access).

Embargo Renewal Form

Other Publishing Information

Publishing With ProQuest  - Students are encouraged to submit the final digital copy of their dissertation or thesis to ProQuest, the world's largest permanent archive of doctoral dissertation or thesis . Abstracts of dissertations submitted to ProQuest are listed with the Library of Congress collections and are published in Dissertation Abstracts International. 

Dissertation Abstracts International includes selected master’s theses, but the inclusion is limited.

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UM undergraduate and postgraduate theses/dissertations are available as text-based PDF files through ETDs, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations service.

Traditionally, the Melitensia Department housed a selection of theses and dissertations pertaining to postgraduate and undergraduate degree programmes. In 2008, the UM Library initiated the ETD pilot project. The reasons for shifting from print to electronic were various, including:

• increasing the accessibility of research
• raising the profile of Higher Education in Malta
• meeting patrons’ expectations
• creating the virtual space.

All the thesis and dissertations submitted to the UM Library are now available on the Institutional Repository OAR@UM and can be accessed via HyDi.

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HyDi (the UM Library portal) [Intranet] OAR@UM (UM's Institutional Repository) [Intranet] ETDs are accessible to academic, administrative, technical and researcher staff and students via the UM IT account.

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How to Find University of Manitoba Theses

MSpace , the University of Manitoba Institutional repository. Use MSpace to find and download full text of UM theses and dissertations.

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• Center for Research Libraries foreign dissertations More than 750,000 dissertations produced for universities outside of the United States and Canada.

Note that you can request theses and disserations via Document Delivery . If they are not available this way, you may have to purchase the thesis from UMI or by contacting the author(s). You may also check the library catalogues at the degree issuing institutions to locate theses and dissertations as well as searching the databases.

Full-text Coverage: restricted to University of Manitoba dissertations and theses, 1929-2014. For 2015 onward, see Mspace Dissertations and theses published since 1980 includes an abstract written by the author.

Web of Science Search Help

• Index to Theses A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
• Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 This site presents over 600 English-language articles, books, technical reports, & other works that are useful in understanding institutional repositories and Electronic Theses & Dissertations. Updated annually.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations Includes dissertations and theses from comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions.
• Thesis Canada Portal Includes full-text for many Canadian theses and dissertations and information on Canadian theses that that are not available digitally.
• Web of Science (all databases) This link opens in a new window Web of Science is a comprehensive interdisciplinary, bibliographic database with article references from journals, books, dissertations and proceedings from sciences and technology, arts and humanities, and social sciences, brought together under a unified search interface.
• WorldCat This link opens in a new window WorldCat is a database of bibliographic records for all types of materials catalogued in libraries around the world, and includes the holdings of most academic libraries in North America. Catalogued materials include books, journals, electronic resources, manuscripts, and audio-visual materials, in hundreds of languages.
• Worldwide ETD Index - Electronic Theses and Dissertations "a global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD collections around the world." While the texts of the theses cannot be searched from this portal, you can search abstracts, subject headings, keywords, authors, schools or publisher.

Selected International Theses Databases

Australian Theses

• The Trove service of the National Library of Australia is the quickest way to access online theses from Australian universities.
• Go to the Trove homepage and Click on Advanced Search.  Type your search terms, then scroll down to Limit your results, and check Australian content, then go to the Format box and select Thesis.

British Theses

• From the British Library

Canadian Theses

• Theses Canada indexes Canadian theses and dissertations held by Library and Archives Canada (Canada's national library), acquired from participating Canadian universities. Any thesis/dissertation not available full-text online can be ordered through interlibrary loan.

French Theses

• Open archive for digital French theses. Abstracts are available in English and Use the drop-down menu to change from version française to English.version.

German Theses

• German theses since 1945 are listed in the catalogue of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Enter search terms in the box, followed by diss. Click Finden. Some theses are available for free download.

Swedish Theses

• Includes English-language university dissertations from Sweden. There are more than 75,000 dissertations in the database and about half of these are available for download as PDF.
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