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Dissertations & Theses: Life & Health Sciences: Find Dissertations & Theses

Find UCB Dissertations & Theses

UCB Dissertations & Theses Online:

UC Berkeley dissertations may also be found in eScholarship, UC's online open access repository.

Please note that it may take time for a dissertation to appear in one of the above online resources. Embargoes and other issues affect the release timing.

Finding UCB Life & Health Sciences Dissertations in the Library Using UC Library Search:

Dissertations have been cataloged using various subject terms. To find these dissertations, try a keyword search University of California, Berkeley [Department/School/Group Name] Dissertations; this works best if you change the search option to 'UC Berkeley catalog' -  select this in the search box as you type,or make the selection above the search box in Advanced Search.

Examples:

  • University of California, Berkeley. Vision Science Dissertations 
  • University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Dissertations.
  • University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology Dissertations.
  • University of California, Berkeley. School of Public Health Dissertations.

You may find your search results improve by placing the Department/School/Group Name as an exact phrase subject in Advanced Search. Example:

  • Any field contains University of California, Berkeley. Dissertations
  • AND Subject contains exact phrase Vision Science

Finding Master's Theses using UC Library Search (catalog):

  1. Currently, only Master's theses older than 2020 are available in UC Library Search.
  2. Click Advanced Search, to the right of the search box.
  3. Change the drop down menu to the left of the search box to Subject and type (for example) University of California Berkeley public health in the search box.
  4. In the next search box, keep the default Any field and type master* in the search box (adding the * searches for both "master" and "masters").
  5. Click Search.

Master's theses from 2020 onwards are available via UC Berkeley Library's Digital Collections.

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