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• UNBC Thesis Collection The collection contains graduate (and select undergraduate) dissertations, theses, project reports and practicum papers. The collection contains most published works from 1994 to the present.

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• Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window Indexes more than 425,000 Canadian theses and dissertations from 1965. This database also provides free access to over 200,000 full text electronic Canadian theses and dissertations. Effective April 2014, only digital theses and dissertations are now accepted. In 2013-2014, approximately 22,000 theses were added to the database.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Good source for U.S. and Canadian theses. International searchable index of dissertations and theses. More than 70,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the Proquest database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI's Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full Text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.
• Canadian Institutional Repositories (CARL) List of repositories in Canada. An institutional repository is a digital archive of an institution’s intellectual output.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To make it easier to search across institutional repositories, NDLTD has initiated a project to harvest metadata from university electronic theses and dissertations. Electronic theses and dissertations are harvested monthly from Canadian universities.
• OAIster OAIster is a union catalog of over 30 million records representing open access digital resources from over 1,500 institutions. OAIster is useful for searching multiple online archives for theses and dissertations simultaneously.
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The library gives you access to theses from the University of Ottawa and other institutions.

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• If the thesis is available online, follow the link to access it.

uO Research  provides free online access to many University of Ottawa theses.

If the thesis is not available online, request it online or at any circulation desk for consultation at the Archives and Special Collections, or view the microfiche at the Media Resources.

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global : 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses from 700 leading academic institutions worldwide.
• Theses Canada : Canada, since 1965
• Système universitaire de documentation  (SUDOC): France
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations : Lists international, regional and country-specific databases of theses available in open access.

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• University of Toronto TSpace This link opens in a new window The University of Toronto's research bank. Showcases and preserves the scholarly work of the U of T community, and makes theses and dissertations publicly accessible online.
• Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global The most comprehensive worldwide collection of dissertations and theses. Full text for many dissertations added since 1997+.
• Theses Canada This link opens in a new window Comprehensive collection of Canadian theses at Library and Archives Canada. Covers U of T dissertations from 1950+ and master's theses from 1989+.
• School of Graduate Studies - Theses University of Toronto's Open Access repository (TSpace)
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Many print U of T doctoral dissertations and masters' theses are listed in LibrarySearch . Older print theses may be listed in a card catalogue at the particular library in which it is held.

Theses from 2009+ are submitted online only to TSpace .

For information on print theses at different U of T libraries please click on the tabs above.

Doctoral dissertations and masters' theses submitted between 1989 and 2009 are listed in LibrarySearch .

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Browse theses and dissertations by doing an advanced search  and selecting 'Thesis' from the format dropdown menu.

Doctoral dissertations and master's theses from  1972-1989  are also available on  microform  in the  Media Commons , 3rd floor, Robarts Library.

Search for doctoral dissertations and theses submitted between  1930 to 1997 in the card catalogue in the Reference Department, 4th floor, Robarts Library.

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For University of Toronto masters and doctoral theses in the sciences consult the library catalogue . Theses can be searched in the catalogue by author, title, or department .

Ask at the Gerstein Information Desk for assistance.

Where do I find a paper copy in Gerstein?

microfiche copies of U of T masters theses in the sciences are held in the Media Commons (4th Floor), Robarts Library

All theses are shelved by author name on 2-Below at the end of the Z call number range.

Please note that the Engineering & Computer Science Library no longer keeps print theses in the library.  Some theses are located at Gerstein Science Information Centre and others at Downsview. For information on a thesis is located see below .

If you have the citation information for a print thesis, you can search the UTL catalogue :

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• By the author of the thesis

If you would like to browse UofT's theses holdings, use the following instructions:

• Go to the UTL Catalogue .
• Select Call number from the drop-down list.
• Type in the appropriate code (i.e. AEROS for aerospace science and engineering).
• Optional: Type in the year , if you know the year you are looking for
• Example: AEROS 1985  

List of Engineering and Computer Science Theses Codes:

• AEROS (aerospace science and engineering)
• IBMEN (biomedical engineering/biomaterials and biomedical engineering)
• CHENG & CHEMG (chemical engineering)
• CIENG (civil engineering)
• COMPS (computer science)
• ELENG (electrical engineering/electrical and computer engineering)
• INENG (industrial engineering)
• METAL (metallurgy, materials science and engineering)
• MEENG (mechanical engineering/mechanical and industrial engineering)

Finding theses from OISE

All OISE theses & dissertations submitted after November 2009 are available on TSpace

Pre 2009 theses are located on the 2nd floor of the OISE library  and are filed alphabetically by author's last name

Theses are searchable in the library catalogue

• The  University of Toronto Archives holds master's theses from 1897 to 1989 & doctoral theses from 1900 to 1985
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Ubc theses and dissertations, the influence of higher education on immigration policy in canada schinnerl, sandra --> -->.

The number of international students with a valid study permit in Canada has more than tripled since 1998 to 827,586 in 2019. Once described as a laggard, Canada is now an industry leader in international student recruitment. Federal government investment and policy change in visa processing, temporary work authorizations and immigration pathways for international student graduates have facilitated year over year increases in international student enrolments since the mid-2000s. These changes are in stark contrast to international student immigration policy only twenty years prior but little research exists to explain this major policy shift. The literature that does exist hypothesizes that policy change is prompted by competitive policy diffusion in which Canada considered the policies of other countries to create their own for competitive advantage. I argue this explanation is incomplete and does not account for the internal special interest lobbying taking place by the higher education sector. Through an outcomes-based process tracing approach I establish that higher education institutions and their associations did not respond to government policy change, but instead lobbied government for changes to temporary and permanent immigration. This research provides a detailed within case account of the chronology of policy change using lobbying records, media and document analysis and elite interviews to develop a series of causal process observations. Policy influence or success is then determined using the degree of preference attainment methodology that compares policy preferences of special interests with policy outcomes and contributes to the understanding of interest group theory. The results highlight the cross- jurisdictional and inter-departmental challenges both between the provinces and the federal government and across federal departments. Higher education sector leaders navigated this jurisdictional logjam by looking for government allies and creating a coalition to advance their interests. As increasing numbers of international students graduate with work authorization and an aspiration to immigrate to Canada permanently, there is a question about the evolving role of higher education institutions in the migration pathway in terms of becoming a de facto portal for migration and as a migration hub along the responsibilities that come with it.

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Toronto Metropolitan University Theses and Dissertations

The TMU Library collects and makes accessible graduate dissertations (Ph.D) and masters level theses as well as some masters level major research papers.

The TMU Library Digital Repository,  RShare , contains the most complete collection of these documents, online, and searchable from the website and via search engines like Google. Older documents, including undergraduate theses, may also be found in  Omni . The library no longer collects print copies of theses and dissertations.

To search for documents from a specific programme, try using a keyword search that includes the words "ryerson"  "dissertations" and a couple of words from the name of the programme such as "communication" "culture" or "mechanical" "engineering."

Theses and Dissertations from Other Universities

• Google Scholar Many universities currently receive graduate scholarship in digital formats only and have embarked on digitization initiatives to make older documents available online. Google Scholar is a useful tool to find this type of material.  
• Theses Canada Portal Provides access to the full-text of many Canadian theses and dissertations.  
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (PQDT)(Access Restricted to TMUCommunity) Provides access to the full-text of over 400,000 Masters and PhD theses from 1997 onwards. In addition, citations are provided for over 1.6 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses from North American and European (including the UK and Ireland) graduate schools from the seventeenth century onwards.  
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) Provides access to open access research from over 800 colleges, universities and research institutions around the world.  
• DART Europe-E-theses Portal Provides access to research theses from 580 universities in 28 European countries.  
• NDLTD-Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations An international nonprofit organization promoting the dissemination of electronic theses and dissertations.  It includes finding aids for digital and some print resources.  
• Canadian Theses = Thèses canadiennes [1947-1980 print; 1985/86-1995/96 on microfiches]: indexes masters and doctoral works from Canadian universities.  Most of the masters works and some of the doctoral works are not listed in PQDT nor Theses Canada Portal.  Other print bibliographies of Canadian theses may be of value including Canadian Graduate Theses: 1919-1967: An Annotated Bibliogrpahy (Covering Economics, Business and Industrial Relations) and Jesse J. Dossick's Doctoral Research on Canada and Canadians, 1884-1983

TMU Undergraduate Theses (Major Research Papers)

A number of departments required students to deposit a copy of their final-year thesis in the Library. Theses can be found by searching Omni and are shelved in Closed Stacks . To request one of these titles, please place your request through Omni. Once the item is ready for pickup, you will receive an email.  Alternately, bring your request to the Circulation Desk for assistance.

Undergraduate theses for Civil Engineering  were kept by the department and are not available.

A complete list of codes used and the department/school (some of which no longer exist) follows:

• Dept. of Applied Chemical & Biological Sciences  (LE3.R99 AC)
• School of Aerospace Engineering  (LE3.R99 AE)
• Dept. of Architectural Science  (LE3.R99 AR)
• Dept. of Chemistry, Biological & Chemical Engineering  (LE3.R99 CB)
• School of Chemical Engineering   (LE3.R99 CE)
• School of Early Childhood Education  (LE3.R99 EC)
• Electrical Engineering Dept./Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering  (LE3.R99 EE)
• School of Environmental Health  (LE3.R99 EH)
• School of Applied Geography  (LE3.R99 GE)
• School of Hospitality & Tourism Management   (LE3.R99 HT)
• School of Interior Design  (LE3.R99 ID)
• School of Industrial Engineering  (LE3.R99 IE)
• Dept. of Laboratory Science  (LE3.R99 LS)
• School of Mechanical Engineering  (LE3.R99 ME)
• School of Occupational and Public Health  (LE3.R99 OP)
• Continuing Education Division. Public Relations Project  (LE3.R99 PR)
• Dept. of Survey Engineering  (LE3.R99 SE)
• School of Urban and Regional Planning  (LE3.R99 UP)
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Full-text of dissertations from McGill University as well as 3,100 worldwide universities. Full-text PDFs available for all non-embargoed dissertations and theses from 1997 – forward, with select full text available prior to 1997. Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub

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