Stanford Dissertations and Theses

Online Format

Full-text PDF files of Stanford dissertation from 1989 to the present are available to Stanford users from Dissertation and Theses @ Stanford University, a digital library hosted by ProQuest/UMI.

Print Format

Print copies of theses and dissertations for the Department of Biology that were submitted from the mid-1920's to the present are located in Falconer Biology Library.

Theses are searchable by author, title, primary faculty advisor, department and year in Socrates. Although theses are assigned the call number 3781, they are shelved alphabetically by author and located in the mezzanine.

To locate theses shelved in the Falconer Biology Library:
Go to Socrates
On the Simple Search form, select Keyword search type
Enter terms: thesis Stanford
         (add other search terms, such as author, keyword(s) in title, or year published)
         Example: thesis Stanford 1998 Meier
Select library: Biology Library (Falconer)
Click on Search Everything button

To locate theses for a primary faculty advisor:
Go to Socrates
On the Simple Search form, select the Keyword search type
Enter "last name of faculty member" and "advisor"
          Example: Campbell advisor
Click on Search Everything button

Dissertations and Theses from Other Institutions

Dissertations Abstracts International indexes virtually all doctoral dissertations accepted by the United States and Canadian Institutions since 1861. Selected masters' theses are represented after 1962 with abstracts available after 1988. Some dissertations granted by universities outside of North America may be included. The file is updated monthly, though lag time from when a dissertation is accepted until its inclusion in DAI may be up to a year.

DAI is available online to Stanford users through ProQuest. Abstracts for earlier years are sometimes available in the print version Dissertation Abstracts International which is shelved in Green Library Reference at Z5055 .U5 A53. When searching the ProQuest database, go to Advanced Search and use keyword "dissertation" combined with university name, author name, or other search terms.