The Digital Dissertations index has citations to dissertations and theses from over 1,000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are included from almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses represented are selective. If you want an immediate copy of a non-University of Minnesota dissertation, you may have to purchase it. Searching Digital Dissertations, some hints The default search is a keyword search of both title and abstract in both masters and doctoral theses.
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This search will result in papers with the term anatomy in the title which were written at places other than the University of Minnesota. This is the date of the degree. Schools may have different names and acronyms for their degrees. For dissertations in foreign languages prior to 1988, see online help. Combining sets in searches Results for each search are displayed as sets, which can be combined for further searching.