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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions . OATD currently indexes 6,912,508 theses and dissertations.

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• NDLTD , the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. NDLTD provides information and a search engine for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), whether they are open access or not.
• Proquest Theses and Dissertations (PQDT), a database of dissertations and theses, whether they were published electronically or in print, and mostly available for purchase. Access to PQDT may be limited; consult your local library for access information.

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OATD.org provides open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,654,285 theses and dissertations.

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The datasets in this collection comprise snapshots in time of metadata descriptions of hundreds of thousands of PhD theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions aggregated by the British Library's EThOS service. The data is estimated to cover around 98% of all PhDs ever awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, dating back to 1787.

Previous versions of the datasets are restricted to ensure the most accurate version of metadata is available for download. Please contact [email protected] if you require access to an older version.

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Welcome to the exciting world of Forest Ecology and Forest Management! We have a wide range of thesis projects ranging from fundamental to applied questions, where you can study from the plant- to the ecosystem level, in the temperate or tropical zone through field studies, experiments, lab studies, or modelling.

The MSc-thesis develops your ability to set up and to carry out a scientific research project in an independent manner. This challenge includes to:

• define and delineate your research topic,
• build a sound theoretical framework for orientation of the research,
• generate proper research questions and/or testable hypotheses,
• develop methods to address your questions and hypotheses,
• collect data in a systematic and verifiable manner,
• analyse the data,
• present the results to others,
• draw sound conclusions,
• place your contribution in context.

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• Search our FEM THESIS DATABASE by topic , by region , by supervisor or see them all .
• For more inspiration check our list of current Staff and Phd research projects . Contact the researcher or supervisor to find out what possibilities there are for you.
• You can also come up with your own project ideas, or do your research, via us, with another research institute in the world. Contact our thesis coordinator.

Before starting any thesis activities..

• Check with the study advisor of your study programme wether you can start a thesis project.
• Look at the "Thesis Guidelines FEM" for preparing an MSc-thesis or information on procedures and guidelines
• Make an appointment with our thesis coordinator.

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EBSCO Open Dissertations

EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. 

Increasing Discovery & Usage of ETD Research

EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. You can join the movement and add your theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to your institutional repository. 

EBSCO Open Dissertations extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

How Does EBSCO Open Dissertations Work?

Your ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to your IR.

EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .

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Finding Theses and Dissertations

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• Browse or search  DigiNole  (includes ETD manuscripts from 2003 to present)
• Browse or search  Proquest’s Dissertations and Theses Full Text  database (requires log in for off-campus access).

Questions about policies and submission of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) can be directed to The Graduate School’s  Manuscript Clearance Advisor , 850-644-0045. 

Questions about access to ETDs can be directed to University Libraries’  repository manager .

About ETDs at FSU

The production, approval, access and long-term preservation of theses and dissertations at Florida State University is a joint effort of The Graduate School, University Libraries and ProQuest/UMI. The Graduate School manages the policies and processing of these manuscripts with students and academic departments; ProQuest includes the manuscript in their Dissertation and Theses Database (PQDT); University Libraries preserves and makes the manuscripts accessible through the library.

FSU requires electronic submission of theses and dissertations (ETDs) using ProQuest’s UMI ETD Administrator system. The graduate manuscripts are also archived in DigiNole , FSU’s institutional repository, a service of University Libraries. All theses and dissertations are also cataloged in the  University Libraries OneSearch .

Browse theses and dissertations produced at FSU from 2003 to present in DigiNole. Thesis and dissertations produced prior to 2003 are recorded in the catalog. Many of them are held in the Special Collections department. 

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (All records) With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses Provides access to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database.

ERIC Many theses and dissertations done by educators are indexed in this database.

Purchase a copy through ProQuest Purchase unbound copies of dissertations and theses with express delivery to your home, school or office. Select from the over 1.9 million graduate works available.

Center for Research Libraries foreign dissertations More than 750,000 dissertations produced for universities outside of the United States and Canada.

Theses Canada Portal Approximately 300,000 records of theses and dissertations on microform in Library and Archives Canada's collection. Of these approximately 50,000 are also available electronically.

Index to Theses A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) Access to the research literature pre- and post-peer-review through author self-archiving in institutional repositories.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Browse or search through several ETD collections, typically across multiple institutions at once.

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Finding SFU theses and projects

On this page, digital theses and projects, find theses and projects by department or faculty, find theses by topic and department/faculty, find theses by topic and degree type.

• Using Summit - SFU's Institutional Research Repository

Using Dissertations and Theses Abstracts and Index

The Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby) has print, microform, and web-based copies of SFU PhD and Masters theses, final projects, and extended essays for programs that are required or have chosen to submit them to the Library.

Undergraduate honours theses are  not available in the Library. Some departments (e.g. English) keep bound honours essays in the department office. In some cases, the only possibility for finding an honours essay may be to contact the author or the faculty supervisor.

Digital theses and projects are available:

• To locate a newly submitted thesis or project (awaiting auditing), search the Thesis Registration System .
• To locate SFU theses and projects, search SFU's Research Repository, Summit .
• For theses between 1998 and 2002 search either Dissertations and Theses Abstracts and Index or Theses Canada .
• Go to the SFU Library Catalogue .
• Enter Theses followed by the name of the department, school, or faculty in quotation marks.

Theses Department of [Department name] e.g. Theses "Department of Psychology"

Theses Faculty of [Faculty name] e.g. Theses "Faculty of Education"

• Use Theses rather than Thesis .
• Use Faculty only for faculties without departments (eg. Business Administration, Education, Health Sciences).
• Search by Keyword .
• Type in the the department or faculty.
• Add a topic word :

Theses "Department of [Department name]" and [Topic word] e.g. Theses Department of Geography and Tourism

Theses "Faculty of [Faculty name]" and [Topic word] e.g. Theses "Faculty of Business Administration" and Bonds

• Use the asterisk (*) to search for all forms of a word e.g. femini* will find feminist, feminism, feminine, etc.
• To find Master's theses , type:

Thesis [Degree type] and [Topic word] e.g. Thesis M A and femini* e.g. Thesis M Sc and prosthe*

To find Doctoral theses , type:

Thesis [Degree type] and Simon Fraser and [Topic word] e.g. Thesis Ph D and Simon Fraser and femini*

• Use the asterisk (*) to search for all forms of a word e.g. femini* will find feminist, feminism, feminine, etc. e.g. prosthe* will find prosthetic, prostheses, prosthesis

Using Summit - SFU's Institutional Research Repository

• Visit the Summit homepage
• Facets include by author, resource type (thesis, essay, etc.), collection and more. 
• Alternatively you can browse the Collections by Theses, Departments and Schools, or SFU Community. 
• Faculty publications are also available.
• Summit can be accessed from the Library website under Help > Publish.
•  Dissertations and Theses Abstracts and Index is a searchable database containing both citations and full text of millions of theses.
•  We have created a subset of SFU theses within Dissertations and Theses Abstracts and Index which you can search.
•  Type a topic word, eg. prosthetics , in the search bar.                              
•  Use the available options to focus your search, eg. publication date, doctoral dissertation, advisor, etc.

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About DissOnline

The German National Library houses the largest national collection of online dissertations in Europe. We have been collecting online dissertations and theses since 1998. Since then, the collection has grown to more than 284,000 documents (as of November 2020).

Since these activities began under the aegis of DissOnline more than 20 years ago, electronic publishing has become a part of everyday university life. This is due to the close cooperation between universities, their libraries and computer centres, and representatives of academia as well as the long-standing support provided through projects funded by the German Research Foundation ( DFG ).

The DissOnline project was brought to a successful, sustainable conclusion. Stakeholders whose initiative had supported DissOnline then became free to transfer their commitment to other areas. In June 2012, the DissOnline advisory committee therefore decided to integrate the functions and information on the website www.dissonline.de into the German National Library’s services. This is particularly relevant in terms of the deposit of works with the German National Library. The extended metadata format XMetaDissPlus enables all types of publications and documents available in subject-specific and institutional repositories and on university servers to be deposited in just one fully automated transaction.

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The DissOnline portal is also integrated into the German National Library's catalogue as a search option. This means that online dissertations are listed as a component of the German National Library’s collection alongside traditional printed dissertations, other online university publications and academic literature. Our catalogue offers a wide variety of search options that are constantly being developed and optimised further. You will find an explanation of all the available search options here:

Guide to searching dissertations and theses in the German National Library’s catalogue (only available in German)

In order to enhance the international visibility of the collection, the metadata for all German online dissertations is continually delivered to DART , the European portal for online dissertations. NDLTD : Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is committed to the promotion of electronic publishing in the academic sector beyond Europe. The International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) takes place every year.

Statistical information

Online university publications have been collected, catalogued and archived at the German National Library since 1998. The illustration shows how the percentage of online publications has developed over the years since this work began. Here it must be considered that although dissertations are subject to a mandatory publication obligation and an obligation to be placed on deposit with the German National Library, only an approximate impression of doctoral and publication activities in Germany can be given.

As the statistics refer to the year in which the publication was released rather than the year in which it was deposited, it is quite possible that figures may rise in succeeding years. This applies in particular to the most recent full year.

The DissOnline projects

• 1998–2000 Dissertations Online
• 2003–2004 Establishment of a coordinating body for online university publications
• 2005–2007 DissOnline Tutor
• 2005–2008 Establishment of a portal for online university publications

The intensive cooperation between all partners and sponsors also made it possible to start collecting dissertations and theses on a voluntary basis in 1998, eight years before the amendment to the Law Regarding the German National Library and the provision stipulating the mandatory deposit of online publications.

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Cooperative breeding in songbirds promotes female song but slows the evolution of song elaboration

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Bird song has historically been characterized as a primarily male behavior that evolves through sexual selection pressures involved in mate attraction. More recently, researchers showed that female song is far more prevalent in songbirds than previously thought, raising new questions about how other social functions of birdsong and sexual selection pressures on females might affect song evolution. Certain breeding systems, particularly cooperative breeding, are hypothesized to change social dynamics and sexual selection pressures on males and females and may thus influence song evolution in both. Here, we construct a large-scale database synthesizing species-level information on the presence of female song, the characteristics of presumably male song, social variables, and breeding systems, and we perform comparative phylogenetic analyses. Our results suggest that cooperative breeding and female song co-occur significantly more than expected and exhibit co-evolutionary dynamics; in particular, cooperative breeding appears to decrease the likelihood that female song is lost. Notably, we find evidence that these trends might be linked to certain social features associated with cooperative breeding, including social bond stability, but not others, such as increased group size. In addition, we observe that song repertoire size appears to evolve more slowly in cooperative breeding lineages. Overall, our findings demonstrate that cooperative breeding may have complex and sex-specific effects on song evolution, maintaining female song while slowing the rate of male song elaboration, suggesting that song in cooperatively breeding species could function in ways that differ from the traditional mate-attraction paradigm and that lesser-studied functions of songs may be evolutionarily consequential.

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