Locating electronic and print dissertations written for a UCR Degree

Beginning in fall 2009, all UCR PhD students completing dissertations are required to submit a draft and final version of their dissertation to the Graduate Division electronically, using ProQuest UMI Dissertation Publishing. Moving to electronic submission and access makes UCR’s dissertations easily and widely discoverable, accessible, and easily archived for future generations of researchers.  All UCR dissertations are available through the ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts Database . All UCR dissertations are also available and searchable through the UCR online catalog, SCOTTY and through Melvyl, the UC-wide catalog. Print copies may be ordered from ProQuest Dissertation Express for a fee.

• Search SCOTTY to find UCR dissertations.
• Look for dissertations by the author or title, or browse by UCR department.
• To directly access dissertations by a specific department, you can simply do a subject search.

Dissertations published electronically will have a link in SCOTTY and Melvyl to the online version.

Examples:

• University Of California Riverside Dept Of History Dissertations
• University Of California Riverside School Of Education Dissertations
• University Of California Riverside Dept Of Biology Dissertations

Locating theses written for a UCR Degree

Use SCOTTY, the UCR online catalog, to find copies of UCR theses deposited with the UCR Libraries. You can directly search for theses by author or title, or use a keyword search:

Examples:

• thesis (M.A.) and riverside
• thesis (M.B.A) and riverside
• thesis (M.S.) and riverside

You must use the AND operator in the Quick Search box.
You will see that Thesis and Riverside are in the Notes field, not the Subject Heading.

UCR Senior Honors Theses

Senior Honors Theses are deposited with the UCR Libraries Special Collections.  See Scotty Record.  See also UCR Undergraduate Research Journal.  Explore the UC System Wide Journal, Audeamus.  See Scotty Record.

Dissertations and Theses Locations in the Libraries

A circulating copy may be housed either in the Orbach Science or Rivera Library, depending on the subject matter. Dissertations and theses can be found under subject call number locations in the Rivera Library (according to topic) whereas in the Orbach Science Library, they are shelved under the call number, Q180 A494 (M.S. & M.A. degrees) and Q180 A495 (Ph.D. degree) Browse by year and then by the author's last name. Dissertations submitted after 2009 will no longer be available in print in the Libraries.  They will be available electronically through Scotty.

Some circulating copies may be housed at the the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF). UCR students, faculty and staff may obtain items stored at SRLF by contacting our Interlibrary Loans Department.

Other UC Dissertations

UC dissertations (Including UCR dissertations) can be found in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database.



Full-text of all UC dissertations from 1998 to the present are available through the PQDT.

Locating Dissertations from Other Universities

Try searching the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database or WorldCat Dissertations.

If you need a dissertation from a non-UC school or another UC campus before 1998, you can order it through our Interlibrary Loans Department.

For Our Visitors (Non-UCR)

Members of the public might be able to request dissertations through the Interlibrary Loans Departments of their local libraries. Otherwise, they can order them directly from Dissertation Express.