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Open Access Resources: Dissertations

Open Access resources are resources that are freely available on the internet--there are not copyright restrictions on their use. These pages provide information on how to find these resources.

Open Access Dissertations Information

Open Access dissertations provide quick access tu titles that are freely available on the Internet.  Depending on your project, dissertations may be a useful resource.  Essentially, a dissertation is paper that a student wrote for his or her graduate school work.  They are often focused on a narrow topic.  Contact your professor before using a dissertation to see if it is a resource appropriate for your course work before getting to far along in your project. Since dissertations are student papers, they can be otherwise difficult to find and to access. Resources, like the ones on this page, help in tracking them down.

Use the search box above to search on the open access titles that Bethel provides access to.

The links to the right provide comprehensive searching abilities at some of the major repositories of open access dissertations.

Open Access Dissertation Collections