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DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard)

Harvard’s central open-access repository for research by its community. Most Ph.D. dissertations submitted from March 2012 onward are available online in DASH

HOLLIS

Use HOLLIS to search for dissertations. For more precise results, use Advanced Search and limit Resource Type to “Dissertations.”

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 

Indexes dissertations and master’s theses from most North American graduate schools and some European universities. Provides full text for most dissertations from 1990 to the present.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 

Indexes dissertations and master’s theses from most North American graduate schools and some European universities. Provides full text for most dissertations from 1990 to the present.

Digital Repositories 

Many universities provide full-text dissertations through their own institutional repositories. If you know the title or author, try a Google search for direct access.

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