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ORBIS, Yale Online Catalog
Search for all Yale theses using ORBIS by including the word "thesis" as a keyword in your search. For additional help, see the Guide on Searching ORBIS for Theses.

THESISweb
A searchable database of Yale medical, nursing, and public health student thesis citations with abstracts.

Current Research @
A searchable database which allows access to the full text of Yale Ph.D. dissertatations from 1996 to the present. Full text access is limited to computers on the Yale network.

Digital Dissertations
Digital Dissertations contains more than 1.6 million entries with information about doctoral dissertations, including Yale MD/PhD dissertations. It is the same database as Dissertation Abstracts, but with the significant advantage that titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library Project
Starting with the School of Medicine graduating class of 2002, the Medical Library and Office of Student Research have begun a collaboration to electronically publish the full text of student thesis on the Internet as a valuable byproduct of student research efforts and original source material to researchers throughout the world.

Theses in the Library

The Medical Library receives one copy of each Medical School and Epidemiology and Public Health student thesis and two copies of each School of Nursing thesis.

Each thesis is cataloged with author and subject entries filed in the card catalog through 1979 or in Orbis, the Yale online catalog, from 1980 to the present. In addition, a list of theses arranged by year, indicating the call numbers for requesting the thesis, is available at the Information Desk and the Circulation Desk.

Thesis request forms are available at the Circulation Desk. Theses from 1974 to the present are shelved within the Medical Library and are retrieved twice a day, at 11:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Earlier theses are stored in the Seeley Mudd Library. Theses at Mudd may be delivered to the Medical Library via Eli Express.

The second copy of the School of Nursing theses may be checked out for home use, but all other theses must be used in the Library. Bibliographic references may be noted, but copies may be made only if the author has given permission.

For more information, please call the Information Desk, 737-4065 or the Circulation Desk, 785-5354.