Thesis & Dissertation Repositories

Calhoun is the Institutional Archive of the Naval Postgraduate School [NPS]. Calhoun provides a permanent, secure online home for NPS-authored content. Here, you can find theses and dissertations, scholarly publications, technical reports and other materials authored by faculty and students. Materials can be searched by a specific community or across all communities.

"The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®) serves the DoD [Department of Defense] community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. For more than 60 years DTIC has provided the warfighter and researchers, scientists, engineers, laboratories, and universities timely access to over 2 million publications covering over 250 subject areas. Our mission supports the nation's warfighter. DTIC is a DoD Field Activity within the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), reporting to the Director, Defense Research & Engineering (DDR&E). All visitors can search DTIC's publicly accessible collections and read or download scientific and technical information, using DTIC Online service. DTIC also makes available sensitive and classified information to eligible users who register for DTIC services."

"Beginning with the January 2004 degree conferral, graduate students at Cornell University have had the option of submitting theses and dissertations electronically. Any thesis submitted electronically is then deposited in Cornell's Institutional Repository (eCommons). The student retains ownership of the copyright of their work. Students have the option of posting their work in either an open or closed community in eCommons (the default choice is the closed community). The open community is 'open access' ie the full text of the document is open to anyone in the world to download and read. In the closed community, only metadata is publicly available. Students can post to the closed community for a period of one, two, three, four, or five years with renewal possible but after 5 years the work is automatically moved to the open community unless a renewal is granted by the Graduate School after a request by the author. In general older thesis and dissertations from Cornell University are not currently available as digital files, but the Library is willing to scan and make available your Cornell Dissertation or Thesis in the open community digital versions on a cost recovery basis."

The North Carolina State University Institutional Repository offers access to theses and dissertations in the areas of engineering, science, technology, and agriculture.

From the "Frequently Asked Questions" page of the site: "The ETD [electronic theses and dissertations] Center is a free, online database of Ohio's masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted."

"PQDT [ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses] Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format."

The Texas Digital Library Federated Electronic Theses and Dissertations is part of the Institutional Repositories of Texas Colleges and Universities. The Repository contains Masters and Doctoral works from 2002 to the present. Materials can be searched by keyword, author, committee chair, degree level, granting institution and year.

"This collection contains University of Texas at Austin [UT] electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Authors of these ETDs have retained their copyright while granting the University of Texas Libraries the non-exclusive right to reproduce and distribute their works. Most of these ETDs are freely accessible to all users, while some require a current UT EID at point of use."