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EBSCO Open Dissertations extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

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Theses and dissertations produced by students as part of the completion of their degree requirements often represent unique and interesting scholarship. Universities are increasingly making this work available online, and UC is no exception. Find information related to open access theses and dissertations below.

UC has an open access policy for theses and dissertations, but procedures and specifics vary by campus

Several UC campuses have established policies requiring open access to the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) written by their graduate students. As of March 25, 2020, there is now a systemwide Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations , indicating that UC “requires theses or dissertations prepared at the University to be (1) deposited into an open access repository, and (2) freely and openly available to the public, subject to a requested delay of access (’embargo’) obtained by the student.”

In accordance with these policies, campuses must ensure that student ETDs are available open access via eScholarship (UC’s open access repository and publishing platform), at no cost to students. By contrast, ProQuest, the world’s largest commercial publisher of ETDs, charges a $95 fee to make an ETD open access. Institutions worldwide have moved toward open access ETD publication because it dramatically increases the visibility and reach of their graduate research.

Policies and procedures for ETD filing, including how to delay public release of an ETD and how long such a delay can last, vary by campus. Learn more about the requirements and procedures for ETDs at each UC campus:

• UC Berkeley: Dissertation Filing Guidelines (for Doctoral Students) and Thesis Filing Guidelines (for Master’s Students)
• UC Davis: Preparing and Filing Your Thesis or Dissertation
• UC Irvine: Thesis/Dissertation Electronic Submission
• UCLA: File Your Thesis or Dissertation
• UC Merced: Dissertation/Thesis Submission
• UC Riverside: Dissertation and Thesis Submission
• UC San Diego:  Preparing to Graduate
• UCSF: Dissertation and Thesis Guidelines
• UC Santa Barbara:  Filing Your Thesis, Dissertation, or DMA Supporting Document
• UC Santa Cruz: Dissertation and Thesis Guidelines (PDF) from the Graduate Division’s Accessing Forms Online page

Open access can be delayed in certain circumstances

Some campuses allow students to elect an embargo period before the public release of their thesis/dissertation; others require approval from graduate advisors or administrators. Visit your local graduate division’s website (linked above) for more information.

Common copyright concerns of students writing theses and dissertations

Students writing theses/dissertations most commonly have questions about their own copyright ownership or the use of other people’s copyrighted materials in their own work.

You automatically own the copyright in your thesis/dissertation  as soon as you create it, regardless of whether you register it or include a copyright page or copyright notice (see this FAQ from the U.S. Copyright Office for more information). Most students choose not to register their copyrights, though some choose to do so because they value having their copyright ownership officially and publicly recorded. Getting a copyright registered is required before you can sue someone for infringement.

If you decide to register your copyright, you can do so

• directly, through the Copyright Office website , for $35
• by having ProQuest/UMI contact the Copyright Office on your behalf, for $65.

It is common to incorporate 1) writing you have done for journal articles as part of your dissertation, and 2) parts of your dissertation into articles or books . See, for example, these articles from Wiley and Taylor & Francis giving authors tips on how to successfully turn dissertations into articles, or these pages at Sage , Springer , and Elsevier listing reuse in a thesis or dissertation as a common right of authors. Because this is a well-known practice, and often explicitly allowed in publishers’ contracts with authors, it rarely raises copyright concerns. eScholarship , which hosts over 55,000 UC ETDs, has never received a takedown notice from a publisher based on a complaint that the author’s ETD was too similar to the author’s published work.

Incorporating the works of others in your thesis/dissertation – such as quotations or illustrative images – is often allowed by copyright law. This is the case when the original work isn’t protected by copyright, or if the way you’re using the work would be considered fair use. In some circumstances, however, you will need permission from the copyright holder.  For more information, please consult the Berkeley Library’s guide to Copyright and Publishing Your Dissertation .

How to find UC Dissertations and Theses online

All ten UC campuses make their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) openly accessible to readers around the world. You can view over 55,000 UC ETDs in eScholarship , UC’s open access repository. View ETDs from each campus:

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Corporate Social Responsibility of Construction and Real Estate Development Companies in Developing Countries: An Assessment Model , Ahmed Nabil Abdel-Salam

Effect of Cue Cardinality, Cue Representation and Judgment Options on Human Judgments , Harsh Wardhan Aggarwal

Pre-Service Teachers' Understanding of Geometric Reflections in Terms of Motion and Mapping View , Murat Akarsu

An Overall Policy Decision-Support System For Educational Facilities Management: An Agent-Based Approach , Haya Bader Albader

Beer to Stay: Brewed Culture, Ethnicity, and the Market Revolution , Brian Alberts

Translocation of Neonicotinoid in Maize and Nontarget Impacts to Water and Soil , Adam Alford

Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets for Chronic Pain , Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee

A Framework for Comparative Life-Cycle Evaluation of Alternative Pavement Types , Saeed Alqadhi

Process Characterization and Optimization of Roll-to-Roll Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition for Graphene Growth , Majed A. Alrefae

She is a computer scientist: a quantitative comparison between the effectiveness of game design studios and robotics at enhancing women's learning of, self-efficacy in, attitudes toward, and domain identification with computer science , Ali Nazil Alshammari

Experimentally validated quantum transport models for tunneling devices based on novel materials , Tarek A. Ameen Beshari

Interparental Conflict as a Context for Early Child-Parent Attachment Relationships , Laura Yanett Anaya

East Asian International Students' Interdependent Happiness: The Role of Acculturative Stress, Dialectical Thinking, and Collectivistic Coping , Yaping Huang Anderson

Avian Immunogenetics and Evolution of a Passerine Bird in the Face of Malarial Parasites , Jennifer D. Antonides

Large Scale Constrained Trajectory Optimization Using Indirect Methods , Thomas Antony

A Performance-Based Framework for Guiding Enroute Air Traffic Control Sector Design , Julian R. Archer

Bridge Load Rating: A General Procedure for Load Rating Bridges without Plans , Rafael Ricardo Armendariz Briones

Comparison of Brachypodium and Wheat Response to Hessian Fly , Abdelrahman Ahmed Abdelhady Mohamed Awad

Spin-Torque Sensors for Energy Efficient and High Speed Global Interconnects , Zubair Al Azim

Analysis of Packaged Air Conditioning System for High Temperature Climates , Ammar M. Bahman

Modeling and Simulation of Blood Flow past the Distal Anastomosis of the Arteriovenous Graft for Hemodialysis , Zengding Bai

Minimal Models of Rational Elliptic Curves with non-Trivial Torsio , Alexander J. Barrios

"Do I Even Remember the List?': Identity, Place, and Legal Consciousness of Marriage Among LGBTQ Individuals." , D Ross Beall

Studies on the Impact Initiation and Kinetics of Condensed Phase Reactives with Application to the Shock Induced Reaction Synthesis of Cubic Boron Nitride , Matthew T. Beason

Using Computational Musicological Approaches and Informatics to Characterize Soundscapes in Diverse Natural and Human-Dominated Ecosystems , Kristen M. Bellisario

Holostream: High-accuracy, High-speed 3D Range Video Encoding and Streaming , Tyler Bell

Multi-Hazard In-Plane Response of Steel-plate Composite (SC) Walls: Out-of-plane and Accident Thermal Loadings , Saahastaranshu R. Bhardwaj

Pre-Service Teachers' Understanding the Measurement of the Area of Rectangles , Cetin Kursat Bilir

Photoassociation in 87RB BECS and in Ultracold 7LI85RB , David Blasing

A Pragmatic Methodology for the (Queer) Self , Elaine M. Blum

YshB is a positive regulator for Salmonella intracellular survival and facilitates the spatio-temporal regulation of bacterial pathogenesis , Rajdeep Bomjan

On the Computation and Composition of Belyi Maps and Dessins d'Enfants , Jacob A. Bond

Raw Material Variability in Food Manufacturing , Brian A. Bourquard

Sex, Culture, and the Politics of Fashion in Stuart England , Emilie M. Brinkman

‘MakingThings Happen’ in Cross-sector Partnerships: A Multiple Case Study , Priyanka Shah Brunese

Three Essays on Skill Heterogeneity in Frictional Labor Markets , Jacklyn R. Buhrmann

Religion and Movement Activism in 1960s Chicago , D. Trevor Burrows

An Investigation of Micro-Surface Shaping on the Piston/Cylinder Interface of Axial Piston Machines , Ashley Busquets

Quantifying Human Heat Stress in Working Environments, and Their Relationship to Atmospheric Dynamics, Due to Global Climate Change , Jonathan R. Buzan

Gist of a Gest: Learning Gestures for the First Time , Maria Eugenia Cabrera Ubaldi

Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of Arsenic Tolerance and Accumulation in Pteris vittata , Chao Cai

Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Functional Analysis of Tissues and Biomaterials , Luyao Cai

Characterization of Type I Collagen and Osteoblast Response to Mechanical Loading , Silvia P. Canelón

Data-driven Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments , Lianjie Cao

Modeling of Bearing Dynamics Using Combined EFEM-DEM Method , Lijun Cao

Regulation of Intestinal Lipid Storage and Mobilization , Alicia L. Carreiro

A Solidarity Economy on the Border: Examining Historical and Contemporary Case Studies in El Paso, Texas as De Facto Contributors to a U.S.-Based Movement , Michelle E. Carreon

Using Tangible Interaction and Virtual Reality to Support Spatial Perspective Taking Ability , Shen-Kuen Chang

Social Brokerage, Psychology, and Innovation in Intra-Organizational Networks , Hongzhi Chen

Proteomics Strategies to Develop Proteins of Post-translational Modifications in Plasma-Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Disease Markers , I-Hsuan (Blair) Chen

Label free chemical imaging reveals novel metabolite signatures in living model organisms , Jing (Andy) Chen

Assessment of urbanization impacts on surface runoff and effects of green infrastructure on hydrology and water quality , Jingqiu Chen

Computational optimization of networks of dynamical systems under uncertainties: application to the air transportation system , Jun Chen

Conventions of the Commons: Technical Communication and Crowdsourced Digital Publishing , Amelia Chesley

Choosing Wickedness: Moral Evil in Kant's Religion , Changtze Chia

Computational Learning for Hand Pose Estimation , Chiho Choi

Sustainable Supply Planning of By-Product Minerals: A Case Study on Indium , Chul Hun Choi

Computational Methods for Matrix/Tensor Factorization and Deep Learning Image Denoising , Joon Hee Choi

The Relationships of Social Cognitive Career Theory Factors and Cybersecurity Research Self-Efficacy , Rylan C. Chong

Strategies to Create Interfacial Patterning and Epitaxial Architectures Using Controllable Anisotropic Wetting at Scales Layers , Shi Wah Choong

Thermal & Non-Thermal Signatures From Galactic Nuclei , Ian Christie

Investigations of the Electrical, Vibrational and Optical Properties of Graphene-based Materials , Ting-Fung Chung

Measurements of Transition Dominated by the Second-Mode Instability at Mach 6 , Brandon C. Chynoweth

The Human Dimensions of Invasive Plant Management on Family Forestlands: A Case Study in Indiana , Mysha K. Clarke

Secular Discourse in Postcolonial West African Narratives: Problems and Perspectives: A Comparative Study , Malick Coly

Gender and Parental Support to Adult Children in Later Life , Gülçin Con

Quantum correlations in nanophotonics: from long-range dipole-dipole interactions to fundamental efficiency limits of coherent energy transfer , Cristian L. Cortes

On the Front Line: Locating Mentorship in the Composition Practicum , Sherri Elaine Craig

Manipulating Light Quality, Light Intensity, and Carbon Dioxide Concentration to Optimize Indoor and Greenhouse Production of Annual Bedding Plant Seedlings , Joshua Ken Craver

Folate Receptor Beta as a Marker of Immunosuppressive Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells and Tumor Associated Macrophages in the Tumor Microenvironment , Gregory Micheal Cresswell

Modeling Anthropogenic Disturbance of Wildlife , Laura E. D'Acunto

The Influence of Biomass Burning Aerosols on Stratocumulus Clouds over the South-East Atlantic , Sampa Das

Producing Nanoscale Laser Spot and its Applications , Anurup Datta

Modeling the Behavioral Landscape Ecology of a Reintroduced Carnivore , Casey C. Day

Hispanic Acculturation and Perceived Discrimination's Impact on Emerging Adult's Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Over Time: A Longitudinal Investigation. , Hector F. De Los Santos

Multidimensional Nonlinear Optical Imaging , Fengyuan Deng

Political Order in the Modernizing Mormon Kingdom, 1887-1896 , Mark Denninghoff

Structure-Function Analysis of a Flavivirus Non-Structural Protein , Michael J. Dibiaso White

Conceptualizing Individual Disaster Resilience: Benchmarking Tools for Individual and Social Coping Capacity for a Disaster Resilient Society , Lindsey J. DiTirro

Behavioral Pharmacology of Alcohol and Legal Psychostimulants , Meridith Tracy Doyle

Characterization of Manifold Microchannel Heat Sinks During Two-Phase Operation , Kevin P. Drummond

Pathology or Neurodiversity?: Cognitive Accessibility and the Rhetorical Construction of ADHD in Higher Education , Samuel James Dunn

Design Methodology for a High-Frequency Transformer in an Isolating DC-DC Converter , Veda Samhitha Duppalli

Understanding the Relation Between Sexual Objectification and Ostracism , Maayan Dvir

Polysulfide Mitigation at the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface: Experiments in Rechargeable Lithium Sulfur Batteries , Arthur D. Dysart

Teacher Identity and the Role of Relational Coaching , Melinda R. Ehmer

Highly Excited States of Small Molecules and Negative Atomic Ions , Matthew T. Eiles

GNSS/INS-Assisted Multi-Camera Mobile Mapping: System Architecture, Modeling, Calibration, and Enhanced Navigation , Magdy Elbahnasawy

Improving Information Alignment and Distributed Coordination for Secure Information Supply Chains , Omar Eldardiry

Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods , Youhan Fang

Plant cell wall modification during tomato processing and its effects on the physical and rheological properties of end products , Xing Fei

Design and Development of Adaptive Intrusion Management for Cyber-Based Systems , Muhamad Felemban

Spin-orbit interaction and electron spin qubits in silicon quantum dots , Rifat Ferdous

Global On-line, Interactive and Simulated Learning Techniques via BIRS , Janet L. Fourman

Enzymatic Inhibition By Lignin During Second Generation Ethanol Production , Antonio Carlos Freitas dos Santos

Metaethical Mooreanism , Jonathan Fuqua

Understanding the adoption, maintenance, diffusion of urban stormwater management practices , Yuling Gao

Acute Effects of Contractile Activity on Skeletal Muscle Exosomes , Ron T. Garner

Plant Mediated Effects on Tritrophic Interactions in the Solanaceae-Hornworm System , Michael A. Garvey

Food Quality Versus Quantity: Consumer's Value Perception and the Influence of Eating Style , Li Ge

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