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Senior honors theses – in Archives only

Masters theses – In Archives or the Institutional Repository

For information on Brandeis theses and dissertations go to  the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department.

Ph.D. – Most dissertations written by Brandeis students are available in full-text via the Dissertations and Theses@Brandeis database. We also have a print, circulating copy in the stacks. Search for the title in Louis.

Online full-text: Dissertations & Theses - through Boston Public Library (BPL)

NOTE: Access provided through the Boston Public Library with a Boston Public Library eCard

Print or microfilm: We also buy interesting works done elsewhere, look for titles in Louis.

Search WorldCat to see if a copy of the thesis or dissertation you want is available at another library.  WorldCat lists locations, and sometimes if you’re lucky, a URL to the full-text.

In the Worldcat record of the thesis or dissertation, click on the button to request to borrow it through Interlibrary Loan.

If the only copy of the thesis is the original copy held by the degree-granting institution, it is unlikely that they will lend it, but we can still try through ILL.

You may be able to buy a copy online from ProQuest (UMI) which controls the reproduction of most U.S. dissertations and thesis. Cost =$36 for pdf, or $43 for unbound paper. Sometimes (not often) there is an embargo and the item cannot be obtained.

Citations and abstracts of thesis and dissertations can be found through a variety of databases, but especially Dissertations Abstracts Online (OCLC)

The best way to submit ILL requests for theses and dissertations is from the WorldCat database! (Not the Dissertations Abstracts Online (OCLC) database).

But before you click check if we have full-text on-line!