Theses and Dissertations at UCF

About ETDs

Graduate students began submitting Electronic Theses and Dissertations during the Spring semester of 2004. Electronic submission was optional until the Fall semester of 2004. To date, 2,206 ETDs have been uploaded.

Finding UCF theses and dissertations

Search the catalog for all UCF theses and dissertations (print and online)

Browse the catalog for UCF electronic theses and dissertations only

Browse WorldCat theses and dissertations (UCF only)

Finding other theses and dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (All records)
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Full text only)
Proquest also offers more than 600,000 dissertations and theses in downloadable full-text formats.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
Browse or search through ETD collections, typically across multiple institutions at once.

WorldCat dissertations and theses
Provides access to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database. Also available via WorldCat.org by performing an advanced search and selecting Thesis/dissertation in the content box.

Theses Canada Portal
Approximately 300,000 records of theses and dissertations on microform in Library and Archives Canada's collection. Of these approximately 50,000 are also available electronically.

Index to Theses
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

EThOS: UK dissertations and theses from the British Library
Electronic theses online service. Opening access to UK theses. Search across 250,000+ theses for free and order full text quickly and easily.

DART - Europe E-theses Portal
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.

Australasian Digital Theses Program
The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The theses will be available worldwide via the web. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community.

Worldwide ETD Index
This is a global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD collections around the world. This index lets you search for information about each ETD (“metadata,” including authors, titles, and abstracts). It does not search the full text of the ETDs.

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Access to the research literature pre- and post-peer-review through author self-archiving in institutional eprint archives.

Purchase a copy through ProQuest
Purchase unbound copies of dissertations and theses with express delivery to your home, school or office. Select from the over 1.9 million graduate works available.

Publishing ETDs @ UCF

Graduate Studies provides students with specific information regarding UCF's thesis and dissertation policies, processes, services, deadlines and guidelines. ETD workshops, handouts, and FAQs are readily available to guide graduate students through the entire process. Various departments on campus provide students with research, writing, and citation assistance. For technical questions related to ETD formation, the Office of Instructional Resources offers free services to assist with the preparation of theses and dissertations, such as Word style and PDF creation workshops, conversion of multimedia files to acceptable formats, and document scanning. Once the final format is approved, the office sends instructions to the student for submitting their final PDF to the UCF Libraries' ETD web site. Upon submission, a script converts the data entered into an FCLA designed, METS XML document. At the end of each semester, all ETDs are uploaded from the Library to FCLA where they are processed into the UCF Libraries' catalog (ALEPH). The catalog records are suppressed until reviewed by a UCF cataloger. ETDs designated to be sent to UMI are transferred via FTP. The ETDs are then ingested into the Florida Digital Archive for long-term storage, digital preservation, and migration.

Contact us

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