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Dissertations and Theses

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Dissertations & Theses @ University of California (UC Dissertations)
Previously called Current Research @.
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

Nearly all of the University of California dissertations filed since 1996 are available full-text (very large pdf files). Citations are provided for UC dissertations filed prior to 1996.

To download large files, use a USB flash drive at any of the public public PCs in the Public Health Library.

Dissertations & Theses (Dissertation Abstracts via ProQuest)
Previously called Digital Dissertations.
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

Provides access to the citations of the more than 2 million titles in Dissertation Abstracts, from 1861 to the present. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The first 24 pages of titles published since 1997 are freely available in PDF format. The complete text of dissertations can be purchased from this site, or may be obtainable using Interlibrary Borrowing Service.

UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program Thesis Index

Provides access to citations of Joint Medical Program theses filed after 1985. Index is browseable in alphabetical order by author or is searchable by author, title, subject, and date. Abstracts and full text of theses are not available through this index. Information on locating specific theses is provided.

For more information about finding dissertations, consult the guide produced by the UCB Teaching Library.


Finding UCB School of Public Health dissertations that are in the library using Pathfinder or Melvyl:

Dissertations have been catalogued using various subject terms. To find these dissertations, enter one or more of the following as a "Subject keyword(s)" search:
University of California Berkeley Health and Medical Sciences dissertations
University of California Berkeley Environmental Health Sciences dissertations
University of California Berkeley Health Services dissertations
University of California Berkeley Biostatistics dissertations
University of California Berkeley Epidemiology dissertations
University of California Berkeley Public Health dissertations

To find UCB School of Public Health Master's theses using Pathfinder, go to "Full Feature Search," and enter the following:

Subject [keyword] = University of California Berkeley public health
Notes [keyword] = master

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