The University Library maintains copies of printed dissertations, theses, and projects from UT graduates. On the Main Campus, circulating copies dating from 1997 to current are housed in the southeast corner of the fifth floor of Carlson Library, and are arranged first by year and then alphabetically by last name of the author. Older theses, dissertations, and project requirements are housed at the Northwest Ohio Book Depository, and may be requested by patrons. On the Health Science Campus, print copies are shelved on the fifth floor of Mulford Library, with call numbers begining with W4A for dissertations and theses until 2004, after which they are available as electronic only. Project requirements are no longer collected in Carlson Library after Summer 2008.Archival copies of main campus printed theses, dissertations, and project requirements are maintained by the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections on the fifth floor of Carlson Library. The Canaday Center maintains on site those dissertations dating from 1996 to current, and theses and project requirements dating 1913-1968 and 2000-current. All others are stored at the Northwest Ohio Book Depository. The archival copies do not circulate. However, patrons may use the archival copy in the Canaday Center’s reading room. Those housed at the depository can be requested for on-site use by contacting the Canaday Center staff at 419-530-4480.
To search the UT Library Catalog for these materials, you can search by title, for the student's name (or advisor's name for recent materials) by author, or you can search by keywords and limit to Material Type: Thesis/Diss. You can also find all of the theses, dissertations, or projects from a specific department by searching for the title using the type of document and the department: UT Dissertation Chemistry, for example.
Electronic copies of UT doctoral dissertations (but not theses) for recent years may be available free of charge from ProQuest Theses & Dissertations. Or, some UT students have chosen to submit their theses or dissertations electronically to the Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Center.
Using the OhioLINK Library Catalog, you can search for dissertations and theses completed at other Ohio universities and colleges if they are included in that library's catalog. Using Keywords, you can again limit to Material Type: Thesis/Diss.
OhioLINK theses and dissertations may also be available from the Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Center.
Using ProQuest Theses & Disserations, you can search for dissertations done in a wide variety of U.S. and international universities. The dissertations that you find in this database can be purchased from Proquest in a variety of formats, or can often be obtained through our Interlibrary Loan Service by UT faculty, staff, and students. Dissertations from recent years may be available in electronic format, and those from UT that are available electronically are free of charge.
Some OhioLINK institutions, including UT, provide electronic copies of their materials to the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center. This can be browsed by university & department or by author, or can be searched by keyword. For information about submitting your own thesis or dissertation, please see this page.