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Have you ever wanted to locate a dissertation written by a particular author in the University
of Western Ontario, or wanted to find dissertations from a certain department to use as a template
for formatting your own thesis?
To find electronic and print dissertations written by Western students, do a simple keyword
search in the shared library catalogue.
You can also add the department name or subject area in which you are interested.
Remember that on the search result page, you can sort your results by date.
This search will give you dissertations written by authors affiliated with the Department
of Physics at Western. Since some department names have changed over
time, you can click on the Subject Field of a dissertation's catalogue record to see other
related subjects such as Department of Physics and Astronomy or Department of Astronomy.
If you want to find dissertations written by a particular author, run a keyword search
like dissertations academic uwo John Smith
More recently published dissertations are available electronically. Many older dissertations
are available only in print. These can be retrieved from storage and delivered to any
library on campus using the "Request Item" button.
Western University's institutional repository, Scholarship@Western, contains most of the
doctoral dissertations published since 2010, and masters theses published since 2011. From
the Scholarship@Western page find the link to Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
and search for the dissertation you are after by author, or title, or browse recent dissertations.
For more help finding theses and dissertations, contact the library.