The digital thesis collection (now comprising over 39,000) has already been accessed more than 30 million times with more than six million downloads.
Alumni who are interested in posting their thesis to the online repository, Academic Commons, should submit a completed Author Rights Agreement form, and a digital version of their thesis following the Digital Thesis Guidelines to the Historic Preservation Office at [email protected]
The databases searched were PubMed, CINAHL, Dissertation and Thesis, Urban History, Leicester, Australian Digital Thesis Program, DART-Europe E-theses Portal, and the University of Michigan's OAlster service.
Digital theses and open access.
The existing book collections in the libraries surpass 1.1 million, with more than 300,000 ebooks, 30,000 electronic journal titles and 100% of all digital theses produced at the university.
Unrevised dissertations available online through the Library's subscription to Proquest Digital Theses and Dissertations are excluded as well.
The search databases for unpublished studies and grey literature were dissertation abstracts international, the World Health Organization library, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Grey literature report, National Library of Medicine, theses Canada portal, Proquest digital theses, Australasian digital theses program and the British library.
Six-monthly searches of a number of grey literature sources: ISI Web of Knowledge Conference Proceedings; Index to Theses; Australasian Digital Theses.
Data sources Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Embase, social work abstracts, and digital theses (database inception to week 3 October 2008) to identify literature using qualitative methods (focus groups, interviews, or case studies).
Jen Rajchel, one of the conference organizers, is the first undergraduate at Bryn Mawr to have a digital senior thesis accepted by the English department: a Web site and archive on the American poet Marianne Moore, who attended the college nearly a century ago.
Dana Boyd, Faceted Id/entity: Managing representation in a digital world, Thesis, MIT media lab.
