Biology Dissertations
Locating Washington University Dissertations
- Records for WU theses and dissertations can be found in the Catalog. Paper copies of biology dissertations, through approximately 2008, are at West Campus Library. The libraries do not have PAPER copies after 2008.
- Masters theses after 2009 are available in OpenScholarship.wustl.edu if the author has permitted distribution there.
- PhD dissertations after 2009 are available in OpenScholarship.wustl.edu if the author has permitted distribution there. But I recommend Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis for more search features and access to fulltext.
- Some Biology Senior Honors Theses, 2000-2010, are kept on reserve. Some Biology Senior Honors Theses, 2011+ are available online; fulltext is only available to WU users.
- Search by author, for example, Olson, Paul David
- Search by keyword, for example,
phenotype plasticity and manihot
or perhaps theses and manihot - Search by department, by using a title search beginning with
the word Theses....
This approach can be useful, but specific dissertations may not be where you expect. This indexing is based on what the author put on the title page, so entries are not always consistent or correct. For example, many dissertations are under "Theses. Biology and Biomedical Sciences" instead of the specific department.- Theses. Bio...
- Theses. Anat...
- Theses. Bacteriol...
- Theses. Botan
- Theses. Cell...
- Theses. Chemical Biology
- Theses. Development...
- Theses. Ecology...
- Theses. Evolution...
- Theses. Genetic...
- Theses. Immunol...
- Theses. Infectious...
- Theses. Integrative...
- Theses. Medicin...
- Theses. Microbiol...
- Theses. Molecul...
- Theses. Neur...
- Theses. Plant...
- Theses. Population...
- Theses. Zoolog...
- Search by adviser in Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis, for example, click on "Adviser" search and type "Schaal" in search box. More info Also displays full text (.pdf) for WU dissertations, 1996+ as requested. (You may also search by author or keyword in this database.)
Preparing WU dissertations
WU Libraries Thesis Preparation GuidelinesDoctoral Dissertation Guide (June, 2008) WU Arts & Sciences
Masters Thesis Guide (2005) WU Arts & Sciences
Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences - includes student policies and forms related to thesis preparation in DBBS
Searching and requesting Non-WU dissertations
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) (1861 - ) The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions since 1861. Abstracts included from July 1980; abstracts for masters theses beginning Spring 1988. Updated monthly. More info.- Some other sources:
- Mobius [often you can request directly from MOBIUS record, if work was done in an academic library in Missouri]
- WorldCatalog [ILL button available for requests]
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations; several search interfaces available, for example Scirus NDLTD search or NDTLD Union Catalog Search (use Description search box for keyword/subject searching)
- EThOS Electronic Theses Online (British Library - UK); 'single point of access' where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education
- M.I.T. Theses and E-Theses Online OR Search MIT Theses in MIT Catalog
- Australasian Digital Theses Program (ADT)
- OhioLink ETD Electronic Theses and Dissertations
- Theses Canada Portal; CARL Metadata Harvester (Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
- OAISTER | OAister via Worldcat.org, academically-related digital materials search engine; includes many dissertations
- CalTech's Electronic Thesis Database
- Diva, theses, dissertations and other publications from Nordic universities; also searchable in Scirus
- TEL (thèses-EN-ligne), multidisciplinary French PhD theses