If you are not a UCSD student, faculty or staff member, you can:
- Search eScholarship and download any open access/freely available UC dissertations.
- Search Google Scholar and the open access electronic theses and dissertation collections like Open Access Theses and Dissertations to see if the one you want is free to download.
- Purchase a copy from ProQuest Dissertations Express. They start at $41 for a PDF.
- Check with your public library about an interlibrary loan request.
As a visitor to the UCSD Library, you can:
- Access any print dissertations that are still on-site
- Cardholders can request annex materials (3-5 business days); others should go through their public library to request materials, either through Circuit or Interlibrary Loan.
- Search ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), and download any dissertations and theses from UCSD or another University of California campus if they are available electronically.
But you cannot:
- Access ProQuest Dissertations & Theses or the other library-licensed databases from off-campus, or anywhere on campus except on the library computers.
- Use our interlibrary loan service to borrow or acquire any materials from another library.
