Online Theses and Dissertations 

The following page has links to ProQuest's thesis and dissertation catalogs and archives.

http://gateway.lib.uiowa.edu/reftype-results.asp?ref=Dissertations+and+theses

The two links of interest on this page are: Current Research @ CIC Institutions and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.

Current Research @ CIC Institutions consists only of the dissertations from CIC institutions from 1997 to the present. They are available free as PDF, regardless of whether they were submitted electronically or in print. The theses and dissertations that were submitted electronically are described as “normal PDFs” and the ones that were submitted in print (and then scanned by ProQuest) are described as “image-only PDFs.”

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (formerly Digital Dissertations, and even more formerly Dissertation Abstracts) is a database of all the dissertations from all institutions submitted to ProQuest. They have an e-commerce system built in, so that once you find the dissertation you want you can “order a copy” and buy it in a variety of formats. All dissertations since 1997 are available in PDF, whether they were submitted electronically or in print. If you choose a dissertation from any CIC institution from 1997 to the present, you will see the price is $0 when you go to buy it.  You must go through the process of buying the dissertation, and only when added to the shopping cart do you learn that it is free.