ECU theses and dissertations:
Theses and dissertations written at the Brody School of Medicine, School of Allied Health, and School of Nursing can be found at the Health Sciences Library, while master degree and Ph.D. candidates from the Division of Academic Affairs deposit their theses and dissertations in Joyner Library. These works are cataloged and searchable in the online catalog of each library. To locate a specific thesis or dissertation, you may search by author's name, title, or subject. The East Carolina Institutional Repository can be searched for theses and dissertations. It is also possible to browse the theses and dissertations written for each academic department or school.
To find all the masters theses written for the Department of Psychology you should type in East Carolina University. Dept. of Psychology, as an author keyword search or choose the author alphabetical search option. Note that the abbreviation Dept. should be used, not the word department. The results may be further refined by restricting the search to a particular collection within Joyner Library such as Joyner Stacks, Music Library, or the North Carolina Collection.
Doctoral dissertations completed at the School of Medicine cannot be searched in the Joyner catalog. You can use the Laupus Library catalog to look for these dissertations. In the Laupus Library catalog choose the series alphabetical search option, and enter ECU School of Medicine thesis or ECU School of Allied Health Sciences thesis .
Theses and dissertations from other Institutions:
Proquest Dissertations and Theses is the place to start if you are looking for dissertations written at any institution. The database represents the work of authors from more than 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Members of the ECU community can download at no cost the full text (PDF format) of dissertations written at ECU since 1997 ; others can be ordered online, for a fee which must be paid by the user. ECU students, faculty and staff in the Division of Academic Affairs can use Joyner Library's Interlibrary Loan Services to try to borrow a copy of any dissertation from the author's institution (at no cost to the requestor).
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog is a free source for searching for theses and dissertations housed in institutional repositories worldwide. Records provide abstracts of the work, along with a link to the full text, usually in PDF format, if available to the public. Searchable by title, author, subject, keyword, or institution. The NDLTD is part of the EDT Digital Library , which provides links to additional sites that provide electronic theses and dissertations.
Additional general sources for identifying theses & dissertations
Guide to Theses and Dissertations: An International Bibliography of Bibliographies. Ref Z5053.A1 R49 1985
Master's Theses Directories Ref Z 5055 U5 M463
Discipline-based bibliographies of dissertations and theses are often published in book format. To locate these in the Joyner Library Catalog, try general keyword searches. Ex. Music and dissertations and bibliography
Periodicals in some disciplines include annual lists of theses and dissertations. Identify these periodicals by using a database like Serials Directory or Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
International Dissertations
The Foreign Doctoral Dissertations database , from the Center for Research Libraries, provides access to doctoral dissertations submitted to institutions outside the United States and Canada. CRL has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations, of which approximately 20,000 are included in this database. Not finding a match does not mean CRL does not hold the dissertation, so if you do not find the title you seek in the database, it is recommended that the CRL catalog also be searched.
Australia
The Australian Digital Theses Program provides both citation and full-text access to a few thousand theses and dissertations published in Australia.
Canada
The CARL Metadata Harvester Archives: http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/archives.php
Theses Canada Portal:http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html (All Canadian Theses from 1998 - 2002)
France
Abes: Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur provides a catalogue of theses for the doctorate (doctoral dissertations) defended in France from 1972 onwards (from 1983 in case of the health sciences). Various indexes permit searches to be made by author, title, university, subject, and academic field of study. French language only.
Great Britain
The British Library provides access to citations of theses from British universities (most doctoral theses from the early 1970s onward), from the United States (475,000 doctoral theses), and from Canada (several hundred doctoral theses from 1980 forward).
