All Stanford dissertations and theses are indexed by SearchWorks. (In the webpage, click on the “Dissertations theses” link under Featured sources. Limit any google listing by selecting “Thesis/Dissertation” under Genre within the left column.)

Most Stanford dissertations written between 1989 and 2009 can be found as PDFs from Proquest. You have access to these from Dissertations Theses @ Stanford or in the Searchworks record.

When the thesis or dissertation was filed inside a gifs (this method was available beginning in November 2009) it might not be indexed within the Dissertations Theses @ Stanford database, but it’ll be accessible via a direct link within the SearchWorks record and from Google. When the student chosen embargo limitations, a number of or even the entire dissertation might not be available for approximately 5 years following the submission date.

You are able to submit a request to see a print copy of the dissertation within the Special Collections College Archives department (library only use). The SearchWorks record will indicate if there’s a circulating print copy that you should check out.

You can buy copies of Stanford dissertations completed before 2010 via UMI Dissertation Express from ProQuest .

Find dissertations and theses using their company universities

Several dissertation databases are indexed by SearchWorks. Two excellent sources are:

• ProQuest Dissertations Theses Global database is really a “searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the globe, spanning from 1743 to the current day.”
• OCLC WorldCat lists most dissertations for many universites and colleges within the U . s . States and Canada and a lot of from around the globe. There’s additionally a public form of WorldCat .

Observe that dissertations filed digitally might not be indexed.

There’s also a few Internet sources that may help you find dissertations using their company institutions:

• The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Union Catalog contains greater than a million records of electronic theses and dissertations in the early 1900s to the current.
• The DART-Europe E-theses Portal provides researchers having a single European Portal for that discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations, with access (during the time of this writing) to 490,746 open access research theses from 557 Universities in 28 Countries in europe.

Learn more on submitting dissertations

If you’re a Stanford student seeking details about submitting dissertations, see Dissertation and Thesis Submission. including the Electronic Dissertation/Thesis FAQ. For those who have further questions. send email to edissertations@lists.stanford.edu for help.