Dissertations and Theses: Non-UCSD Affiliates

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 Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) or 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 $38 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 onsite, or request that one be retrieved from the Annex.
• Search ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), and download any dissertations and theses from UCSD or another University of California campus if they are available electronically.
• Search most of the subject-specific databases for dissertations on your topic (SciFinder is a notable exception).   

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.