Dissertations & Theses

The library has copies of many dissertations and theses from the University of Colorado Denver in print. They can be found by searching Skyline, the library catalog. Searching tips and steps can be found in the Find Dissertations and Theses page on this research guide.

Within the Auraria Library Digital Collections, we have our institutional repository. Once you click on the Scholarly Works tab, you can then choose which collection from the Auraria Campus you wish to look through.

Search citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by post-graduate students from all University of Colorado campuses and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts. Full text of many of those published after 1996 is downloadable.

Bibliographic citations to doctoral dissertations and master's theses from graduate schools and universities. Indexes from 1861 onward, provides abstracts from 1980 onward, and supplies 24-page previews from 1997 until the present. Includes full text of the University of Colorado Systems dissertations on Dissertations & Theses @ University of Colorado System. Once you have identified the dissertation or thesis of interest, you can use Interlibrary Loan to borrow a copy.

Includes citations and some full-text for more than 1.5 million masters theses and doctoral dissertations from 1902 to the present. New citations include a link to access the full text, when available, via the Institutional Repository where the thesis or dissertation is housed.

Find open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1,100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. It currently indexes over 3.4 million theses and dissertations.

Find dissertations/theses using the Publication Type filter during a search.

With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.

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An open access collection of theses and dissertations from over 200 universities and institutions worldwide. There is one large free search engine for this database, VTLS and links are provided to a number of specialized open access collections of theses and dissertations. The Auraria Library subscribes to Dissertations & Theses A&I.

Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

A free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

Access to the full text of electronically over 350,000 doctoral theses from the United Kingdom.

Database provides access to more than 400,000 theses and dissertations from Canadian schools and universities.

Provides access to some European theses and dissertations from more than 500 universities.

View dissertations and theses from many universities in Australia and New Zealand online.