While there are many places to locate citations for thesis and dissertation, the best place to locate the full text of these documents is the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium database. You can search by author, title, or a subject and then limit to Dissertations & Theses under the Source Type (see screen shot image). Most of the dissertations are full text but there may be some that include an abstract or 24-page preview only. 

One can also search the following database sources for dissertation citations, including some with full text content: 

• Google Scholar
• SuperSearch (searches all our databases, limit to dissertations/theses under publication type) 
• PQDT Open
• ERIC  (education content) 
• EBSCO Open Dissertations
• American Doctoral Dissertations
• WorldCat Dissertations
• Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository (works created by nurses) 
• ScholarWorks for Clarkson College (Institutional Respository for the college community)

See the list of A-Z databases. If you need more assistance tracking down a specific dissertation, please ask a librarian for assistance or submit an Article Request Form and we will try our best to obtain it for you.