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All available Masters and Doctoral (PhD) theses of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are indexed in the Libraries' Catalog
by personal author, title, and title keywords.
If you are unsure about personal authorship, try searching
for the author, "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute" and then either limiting
the search results by Material Type "THESIS" or selecting one of the departmental
entries for a shorter list of entries. (Note: Because department names
change over time, you may have to browse several lists to see all the
theses associated with a "department.")
Rensselaer PhD theses are also indexed in the Dissertation
Abstracts (DA) database available at many academic and research libraries.
DA entries usually provide an abstract.
New Rensselaer theses are usually available for use within
the library 6 - 8 months following date of graduation. PhD theses appear
in Dissertation Abstracts usually within 12 - 15 months of graduation.
Availability of theses
With the exception of circulating copies of PhD theses
completed since 1976, Rensselaer theses are restricted to "Building Use
Only." Theses dating from 1920 to the present must be requested from the
Circulation Desk. Theses predating 1920 are available in microfilm, and
original print or manuscript copies may be used by contacting the Institute
Archives.
Rensselaer faculty, staff and students may access electronic copies of PhD
theses dating from 1996 from the ProQuest
Current Research website. The first 24 pages are available for immediate review and the
complete dissertation may be loaded without cost as a PDF file.
How to order copies of theses
The Rensselaer Libraries' Interlibrary Loan and Document
Delivery Service will provide cost estimates for making a single photocopy
of any Rensselaer Masters or PhD thesis. A few theses containing large
scale drawings and/or brittle paper cannot be photocopied. Supplemental
parts of theses, e.g. video and audio excerpts, also will not be duplicated.
The Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service may
be contacted by:
- email: ill-support@rpi.edu
- fax: 518-276-8559
- phone: 518-276-8330
- ARIEL: 128.113.68.100 or
- the OCLC Interlibrary Loan network.
Costs include a $15.00 handling fee plus a $ .20 per page photocopying
fee. A typical masters thesis is about 125 pages; a typical PhD thesis
is about 275 pages. (Air Mail delivery is extra and costs about $ 1.00
per ounce.) Allow 2 - 4 weeks for delivery. Advance payment by individuals
is required; libraries will be billed directly or charged via OCLC's IFM
system.
PhD theses dating from 1950 to the present also may be
ordered from University Microfilm International's ( UMI
) Dissertation Abstracts Service.
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