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Theses and Dissertations

Our collection of Texas Tech's theses and dissertations is currently divided by format: electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and print theses and dissertations.

Those that have been submitted to the Graduate School since Jan. 1, 2005 are available in electronic format only, while those submitted before the Spring 2005 semester are available in print from the library. We are also working on a project to digitize our print theses and dissertations and add them to our ETD collection, starting with the most recent ones. In the coming months and years, you will be able to find more and more of our earlier theses and dissertations in electronic format.

Electronic theses and dissertations (instead of print theses and dissertations) are the standard among universities around the world. The TTU Libraries accept deposits of theses and dissertations from the TTU Graduate School. These digital documents and the information describing them are exposed to powerful search engines (such as Google) upon deposit so that they can be widely available for viewing and downloading. The TTU Libraries support the open access initiative and other efforts to make information and knowledge freely available; such efforts push research forward, increase citations to our scholars’ works, and enhance the university’s and scholars’ reputations. If you have any questions about your electronic thesis or dissertation, please contact:

Texas Tech University Graduate School
02 Holden Hall
P.O. Box 41030
Lubbock, TX 79409-1030
(806) 742-2781
gradschool@ttu.edu

You can browse our most recent theses and dissertations in our ETD system:

• Browse by author's last name
• Browse by department

Through the library's online catalog, you can find older theses and dissertations. Bear in mind that these are only available in the library's stacks:

• Browse print theses by department
• Browse print dissertations by department
• Browse all print theses and dissertations
• Find a print thesis or dissertation by author name

You can also find a subset of TTU's dissertations in electronic format from UMI's Current Research@ database. But please understand the following: [1] UMI's database does not contain Masters theses. [2] Students are not required to submit their dissertations to UMI, so the dissertation collection present in that database is not complete. [3] Unless you are accessing the collection from a computer located on the Texas Tech University network, you must pay a fee to download anything other than a 24-page preview.

Related Information:

Theses and Dissertations at the TTU Graduate School