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Theses and dissertations have been published at Virginia Tech since 1903. They have been submitted electronically since 1996 ( ETDs ), with most of these freely available and searchable online from VTechWorks - ETDs . Please visit the Research Guide on ETDs  page for more information. The Virginia Tech Libraries owns few theses or dissertations published at other colleges and universities; you can obtain many of these documents via Interlibrary Loan . Note : If an author(s) have placed an embargo on their theses or dissertations for a period of time, access to these will be limited.

You can also find Virginia Tech dissertations and theses from the  library’s homepage , or from the  Discovery Search  page, by searching for the thesis/dissertation by the title, or by the OCLC number ( if indexed ). If available online, it will be the first few results. Click on the thesis/dissertation title to view the item information and for access options (such as VTechWorks links).

From the  Discovery Advanced Search  page, you may search the thesis/dissertation title using the “ Title ” search filter, or use the “ Title ” AND “ Author/Creator ” search filters to find the Virginia Tech electronic theses or dissertations ( ETDs ) by the title AND author. Change the " Material type " option from " All items " to " Dissertations ". From the results page, click on the thesis/dissertation title to view the item information and for access options (such as VTechWorks links).

If there is a “ Get VText ” link, this will direct you to the item information, with the “ Request item through Interlibrary Loan ” button, to request the item through  Interlibrary Loan .

Physical/print copies of Virginia Tech thesis or dissertations can be found in much the same way, as indicated above. Click on the thesis/dissertation title to view the item information, item location, availability, and a " Sign In " link for request options.

To limit to documents from particular departments, include the department name in quotes. Note that many departments have changed their names over the years, so you will need to search each variation of name.

To search for thesis and dissertations held by other libraries, from the initial results page, under “ Tweak you results ”: select the " Expand My Results " option.

For information about the  Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) ,  ProQuest Theses and Dissertations Global (PQTDG) , other open access repositories, and international thesis and dissertations repositories, such as the  Center for Research Libraries (CRL) , see our  guide on theses and dissertations  for more information. 

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VT ETDs are migrating into VTech Works! 21,243 will move from the ETD Database to join the >1,300 most current ETDs already inVTechWorks. Virginia Tech has been a worldwide leader in ETD initiatives for more than 20 years. On January 1, 1997 VT was the first university to require ETDs. Our mission is to preserve and provide access to the research and scholarship of Virginia Tech's graduate students. ETDs give students the opportunity to prepare, submit, review, and publish electronic works such as book chapters, journal articles, and conference presentations. We support supplimentary files in media formats such as csv (data), audio, video, 3-D images, and others. VT's ETD policies, procedures, and software are openly available from this web site. The guidelines that apply to Virginia Tech's graduate students as ETD authors can be found at  etd.vt.edu  and the Graduate School.

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The Art & Architecture Library collects M.Arch theses and B.Arch Pella Prize theses in the print collection. Additional copies are available in the University Libraries Special Collections. 

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