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Hello and welcome to this video tutorial on how to find a full text dissertation
or thesis online.
From the library home page select "Articles and More".
Select "D" for dissertation in the title browse area.
Scroll down the page.
Dissertation and Theses at the University of Wyoming
will limit your search to dissertations written by only University of Wyoming students.
Select the dissertation and theses database to search all dissertations.
This is the main search page for Proquest's
dissertation and theses database.
You can do a keyword search here for your topic
or go directly to the advanced search page. Let's go to the advanced search page.
On the advanced search page
we can restrict our search for any of these limiters
including author,
department or committee member.
Let's find a dissertation that was created in the plant sciences department
and had Karen Panter as an advisor.
Type plant sciences and select "department" from the drop-down menu.
Type the name Karen Panter and select "advisor" from the drop-down menu.
Click on "Search".
Let's look at the first dissertation in our list.
When we view the abstract we can see that the search criteria
gave us the correct dissertation.
After we find our dissertation
we can view the full text by clicking on Full Text-PDF
Or we can select the item
and save it to My Research Folder.
If we choose to, we can email it, print it, or cite it.
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