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48K and counting! McGill Dissertations and Theses
The McGill University Library is home to thousands of dissertations and theses produced by McGill’s graduate students. Beyond conserving these theses and dissertations, the Library retroactively digitized all its print theses and dissertations and made them freely available in McGill’s institutional repository, eScholarship . Additionally, as of 2021, McGill’s theses and dissertations are discoverable via the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. This will allow researchers from around the world to discover McGill theses alongside those of other institutions.
Meeting diverse research needs
The electronic dissertations and thesis in eScholarship are available in Open Access format and can be accessed by anyone in the world for free.
In addition to being able to search across McGill’s dissertations and theses, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses allows users to explore dissertations and theses from universities around the world.
McGill Library Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) collection dataset contains all the metadata and (in some cases) full text of the McGill Theses and Dissertation collections from 1881–2018. We invite researchers to come and explore this dataset and more .
If you require assistance in discovering dissertation and thesis in your subject areas, please reach out to your liaison librarians and visit the Library’s Guide on Theses and Dissertations .
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eScholarship - Open access digital repository of publications and theses of McGill University faculty and students. Database of theses and dissertations Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global - Full text documents form institutions worldwide.
eScholarship@McGill is a digital repository, which collects, preserves, and showcases the publications, scholarly works, and theses of McGill University faculty members, researchers, and students. All scholarly works authored by faculty and students can be deposited in the digital repository. What can go into eScholarship? open access research ...
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. CARL supports the systematic archiving of, and access to theses and dissertations of institutional repositories found throughout Canada.
Public. 53148 53148 Items. Last Updated: 2020-01-21. Collection of full-text theses and dissertations from McGill University.
Welcome. This guide will assist you in preparing and finding theses and dissertations at McGill, as well as Canadian, American and International institutes. For more information, please refer to the subject guides or contact a subject librarian to schedule an appointment. Please note, the generic term thesis is often used to describe both ...
About. eScholarship@McGill is an open access digital repository maintained by the McGill Libraries. It showcases and preserves the publications and theses of McGill faculty, researchers, and students. eScholarship@McGill includes: research articles. theses. working papers. conference papers. research reports and more.
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Beyond conserving these theses and dissertations, the Library retroactively digitized all its print theses and dissertations and made them freely available in McGill's institutional repository, eScholarship. Additionally, as of 2021, McGill's theses and dissertations are discoverable via the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database.
To date, over 35,000 McGill theses are available in eScholarship@McGill. Summaries and/or full-text of dissertations from McGill University as well as from other participating North American and European institutions; first 24 pages of others 1997- (some 1996). Masters theses abstracts or full-text 1988-. Consult the Theses and Dissertations ...
Collection of full-text theses and dissertations from McGill University. Collection Details. Total items 53196 Size unknown Search Collection Theses & Dissertations. Go. Works (53148) View results as: List Gallery Masonry Slideshow. Sort the listing of items Sort by: Results per ...
Use our data! McGill Library thesis and dissertation collection by year of publication. The full text and metadata of the 1881 - 2016 thesis and dissertation collection are freely available for research as an open dataset. The McGill Library supports the Open Access movement and believes in the sharing and distribution of open data.
myThesis, McGill University's Thesis Examination Management platform, allows masters and doctoral thesis students to register their intention to submit, upload their initial thesis and follow it's progress all the way to the final thesis submission. (See question 2 in the FAQ below for an overview of the complete thesis submission process.)
Database of theses and dissertations. Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global - Full text documents from institutions worldwide. Web of Science - ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global has been integrated into this multidisciplinary database. OATD (Open Access Theses and Dissertations)
Databases are search engines that allow you to search across collections of journals and articles. Some databases, like Scopus and ProQuest Central, are multidisciplinary and include articles from a variety of academic disciplines. Others, like PubMed, are more specialized and focus on a single discipline. To find databases for a discipline or ...
Collection of full-text theses and dissertations from McGill University. 0 Collections 53148 Works Undergraduate Research ... (ASR) projects, the Living Lab is a digital repository of applied research that creates a culture of sustainability on McGill campus. The database aims to help McGill and the broader community visibility, learn from, and ...
As per the Theses Guidelines website, hosted by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the following are the general requirements for McGill theses:. Master's Theses. A thesis for the Master's degree must show familiarity with previous work in the field and must demonstrate the ability to carry out research, organize results, and defend the approach and conclusions in a scholarly manner according ...
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In this thesis, we propose a new criterion, 1-copy-snapshot-isolation (1-copy-SI), due to the popularity of snapshot isolation (SI) over serializability in major database systems. SI allows some non-serializable executions, but it provides better concurrency and can be implemented efficiently. However, current definitions of SI allow for the ...
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Under Format, select Article to see only articles in the results list. Find Full Text Some databases and search engines will display a "Find Full Text" button next to articles in your search results. Click this button to check if you can get the full text of the article through the McGill Libraries. Step 2: Retrieve the article Access the ...
This thesis reports the results of a case study of Young-Davidson (YD) mine of Alamos Gold Inc. in northern Ontario, a gold mining operation using sublevel stoping method. The goal of the research is to conduct a comprehensive study of the microseismic database to discern the root causes of large micro-seismic events.