Online Dissertations
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Index to doctoral dissertations from 1637 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Many are available for download in pdf format. UCLA has access to all full text dissertations in the database. Non-UCLA users may use Dissertations Express to purchase digital or print copies of individual dissertations. - eScholarship, University of California This link opens in a new windowUC's open access repository. Contains books, journals, working papers, conference publications, postprints, theses, and dissertations.
- WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
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Over 5 million dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution. UCLA students, faculty, and staff can request non-UCLA dissertations via interlibrary loan.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign DissertationsSearch the CRL Catalog for dissertations already held at the Center. If a foreign dissertation is not at CRL, UCLA's Interlibrary 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 DissertationsThis international organization promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic analogues to traditional paper-based theses and dissertations in order to more effectively share knowledge.
Print Dissertations
Print copies of UCLA dissertations and theses are classified by the name of the program, degree, and/or department. Most are shelved in off-site storage at SRLF. Note that there may be multiple subject headings for departments that have changed names at different points in history. Use these subject headings in UC Library Search for locating titles at UCLA.
- Dissertations, Academic—UCLA—DanceSubject search for Dance dissertations and master's theses at UCLA. Covers 1964-2008.
- Dissertations, Academic—UCLA—Culture and PerformanceDissertations completed in Culture and Performance program (2004-present). See also some online versions via UC's eScholarship platform.
- University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Dance Master's ThesesTheses from the Dance Department held in University Archives and covering 1958-1988. Most theses also available in the circulating UCLA collection.