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Answered By: Heidi Herr Last Updated: Jul 10, 2023     Views: 30384

From 2013 on: Dissertations and many theses produced by JHU students are available in our repository JScholarship.   Because the library does not keep paper copies of these submissions, you must search within JScholarship , not Catalyst. (Info on how to search JScholarship is below.)

Before 2013: Dissertations and theses submitted before 2013 should have paper copies available and can be requested through Catalyst, the library catalog. They may be consulted in the Special Collections department. Embargos: Unless the student has chosen an embargo, dissertations and theses should be available within two months of degree conferral. Students may elect to embargo publication of their thesis or dissertation for up to four years. During this time, the title and abstract of the dissertation will be available in JScholarship.

Also in ProQuest: In addition, JHU doctoral dissertations may be findable within the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database .

• The full text is available from 1997 to the present; before that, only abstracts are available online. For those older JHU dissertations, consult the staff in Special Collections . Or, if you know the title or author, look it up in the library catalog .
• Since the library switched to electronic copies only in 2013, not all dissertation authors have elected to send their dissertation to ProQuest. Instead, try JScholarship .

Master’s Theses : Master's theses (also called "essays") are also included in JScholarship . This has been optional since 2013.

•  Master's theses are not included in the ProQuest database, so they are not available in any form from ProQuest.  
• JHU Master’s theses that are available in print form can be requested . You will need to know either the author or title or both.
• If you need help identifying the names of students who graduated in specific years, please refer to our digital commencement programs  
• Master’s theses written for the Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) departments are also discoverable through Catalyst, our online catalog.  
• Please note that not all programs require writing and submission of a Master's thesis.

How To Find Dissertations and Masters' Essays in JScholarship:

•   Go to this page .
• You will see "Collections in This Community" at the center of the page.
• NOTE:  It is not possible to search by department or program name.

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(You can try to find a department or program name that is somewhat distinctive. Enter the entire name and put it in quotation marks, such as “history of art” or “earth and planetary science.”) Narrow your search by:

A. Clicking “Show Advanced Filters” (under search box) OR

OPTION 2:  USE FILTERS UNDER “THIS COLLECTION” (on the right of the page)

Those options under "This Collection" will search either all of ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) or one of the smaller communities (e.g., Doctoral Dissertations).

You can filter by issue date, authors, titles, or subjects. (Results do not appear in any particular order.) Again, make sure that you use the options under "This Collection" and not under "All of JScholarship”:

• Practicum and capstone projects have not been collected by the Archives, with some exceptions; e.g., real estate practicums produced by Carey Business School Real Estate program master’s degree students are now being collected, although not cataloged.
• Some schools or programs may keep an uncataloged collection of practicums, capstone projects, or dissertations  on-site. Contact the specific program or school to ask if they have such a collection.

If you have questions, please contact:

• Electronic Theses & Dissertation Staff (for dissertations and theses from September 2013 to the present)
• Special Collections and Archives Staff  for older dissertations.
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• Harmalkar, Ameya "Computational Modeling, Prediction and Design of Protein-Protein Interactions" (2023) Online .
• Nance, Morgan "Modeling Protein–Carbohydrate Complexes in Rosetta" (2023) Online .
• Ruffolo, Jeff "Deep Learning Methods for Antibody Structure Prediction and Design" (2023) Online .
• Alford, Rebecca "Toward Biologically Realistic Computational Membrane Protein Structure Prediction and Design" (2020) Online .
• Jeliazkov, Jeliazko "Computational Modeling and Design of Protein-Protein Interations" (2019) Online .
• Roy Burman, Shourya S. "Modeling Interactions of Flexible Proteins" (2018).
• Marze, Nicholas "Building Computational Tools for Antibody Modeling and Protein-Protein Docking" (2017) Online .
• Pacella, Michael S. "Modeling and Design of Peptides to Control Biomineral Nucleation and Growth" (2017) Online .
• Kilambi, Krishna "Computational Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions" (2015) Online .
• Weitzer, Brian D. "Next-Generation Antibody Modeling" (2015) Online .
• Berrondo, Monica "Predicting the structure and function of protein mutants" (2010) Online .
• Chaudhury, Sidhartha "Using computational protein docking to model the structure and specificity of protein interactions" (2010) Online .
• Sircar, Aroop "Computational antibody structure prediction and antibody-antigen docking" (2010) Online .
• Masica, Daivd L. "Structure determination and design of biomineral-associated proteins" (2009) Online .
• Daily, Michael D. "Systematic analysis of motions and communication networks in a benchmark set of allosteric proteins" (2008) Online .
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• Wei, Sen "Rosetta Energy Approximation using a Machine Learning Approach" (2024) Online .
• Gao, Wenhao "Development of a Protein Folding Environment for Reinforcement Learning" (2020) Online .
• Lasher, Brittany "Furthering Multiscale Membrane Protein Predicition and Design Approaches" (2019) Online .
• Biswas, Naireeta "Structural modelling of the Resistin family proteins and their cognate antibodies" (2017) Online .
• Long, Xiyao "Improving Antibody CDR Template Selection by Structural Cluster Prediction" (2017) Online .
• Lubin, Joseph H. "A Parametric Rosetta Energy Function Analysis with LK Peptides on SAM Surfaces" (2017) Online .
• Zuo, Xiaotong "Computational modeling of the C-terminal glycan of Type IV Pilin" (2016) Online .
• Muthu, Pravin "A comparison of sequence and structure-based approaches for enzyme specificity design" (2011).
• Guo, Lian "Docking HPr to HPr kinase with partial backbone flexibility" (2004) Online .
• Bachelor's Honors Theses
• Porter, Justin R. "The selection of near-native decoys in protein-protein docking by score combinations using the Rosetta all-atom force field" (2012) Online .

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From June 10-June 27 rooms in Brody will be intermittently unavailable for reservations for equipment maintenance. Rooms will be available on a drop-in basis, with the potential of interruption from workers.

Reserve a Room

First time? Read the policies and instructions to ensure you choose the correct settings in 25Live.

Need help? Email [email protected] for assistance.

Irene and Richard Frary Library

Hopkins Bloomberg Center Study Rooms

• 27 group study rooms, ranging in size from 4 to 10 seats.
• Three group study rooms are located in the Frary Library: 228B, 228H, and 228L.
• Follow the instructions below to book a room, but for steps 3-6 you can instead select “555 Penn – Study Rooms” under Saved Searches.

Library Group Study Room Policies

• The availability window is 48 hours from the current time, rolling over every hour.
• You may book 4 reservations per week, with a total of 8 hours per week.
• You may book a room for a minimum of 30 minutes.
• Your bookings are limited to a total of two hours each.
• Reservations cannot be changed or canceled, so please choose your options carefully.

Additional room guidelines

• Reservations have priority over walk-ins.
• J-card swipe is required for entry.
• If a room is not occupied within the first 10 minutes of the reservation block, the room is then free for walk-in use.
• Students can’t reserve a small number of larger rooms (such as BLC 4040), but may use them when they are not being used by library staff.

Instructions

Note: Always use the “Express Scheduling” form.

If you attempt to use the “Event Form” linked in the top navigation your reservation will not be successful.

• Log in to your 25Live using your JHED ID. You will see a search box.

• Click “Save,” and your reservation will be complete with no approval required. Note : Reservations cannot be canceled or edited, so be sure your details are correct.

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Access to Dissertations

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Includes more than 2 million entries.The single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
• EBSCO Open Dissertations
• Interlibrary Loan the Library does not routinely purchase dissertations from other institutions. However, many are available through InterLibrary Services. Search in WorldCat for easiest ordering.
• Request a purchase for the library If you would like the Library to purchase a dissertation, contact the Librarian for the Department.

DissOnline : Open access dissertations online, a service of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek .

Austrian dissertation database : now combined with the Verbundsuchmaschine

Helveticat . The Swiss National Library has a copy of all dissertations written in the country. Add the word “diss” to your search terms in order to retrieve dissertations.

EthOs : British Library dissertations

Index to Theses : comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts in universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1716.

Buy Your Own

As a last resort , you can purchase dissertations directly.

Dissertation Express : US, from ProQuest

• Verify using the tools listed above that the document is not otherwise available to you free before ordering.
• If Interlibrary Loan can't locate a copy to borrow.
• Use a credit card or fax payment.
• Orders are shipped directly to you.

Submitting your dissertation

• Guidelines at JHU
• Graduate Board formatting details

Related Guide

• Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Print Catalogues

• Catalogues in the library collections will usually treat a particular subject, time period, or institution.
• You can locate printed catalogues of dissertations easily in the online catalog . 
• Or in WorldCat .
• For either database, do a Subject Keyword search on:  Dissertations Germany bibliography.
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