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About this site: Highlights from the collectionÌý

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ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ's history can be traced through the pages of the students who worked and studied here. We at the Library created this website to showcase some of the scholarship and storiesÌýin our thesis and dissertation collection and to encourage further exploration.

We invite you to discover ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ’s graduate scholarship and see not only the culmination of effort of past alumni but also their contributions to their respective fields. Read the works of some ofÌýƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ’s notable alumni, learn more about the city of Montreal, and discover historical artifacts alongside recent scholarship. We hope you will enjoy discovering this collection as much as we have.

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About the theses and dissertations collection at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ Library

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  • 0.987- the length of theÌýhistorical print collection in kilometres when shelvedÌýin Rare Books and Special Collections
  • 2005Ìý– the year ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐÌýstarts accepting theses submitted electronicallyÌý
  • 41,975 - the number of theses and dissertations that are available and fully searchable inÌý (October 20, 2016)

The historical theses and dissertations print collectionÌýat the ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ LibraryÌýis now housed in RareÌýBooks and Special Collections. It wasÌýoriginally only available for consultationÌýonsite orÌýby interlibrary loan. To improve access across the country, in 1967 the National Library of Canada started microfilming all theses and making them available in their online catalogue.Ìý

In 2005, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ started a pilot project to allowÌýelectronically submitted theses and in 2007 the Library started making theseÌýavailable through the institutional repository, . In 2009, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ announced the pilot was a success and mandated that all theses incoming be submitted to the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies officeÌýelectronically before being transferred to the Library.

Now with almost 42,000 full-text theses and dissertations available, Ìýprovides a rich research database of ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ scholarship.Ìý

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About the retrospective thesis digitization project

Begun in 2012, the goal of ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ Library and Archives' Retrospective Thesis Project was to digitize all of the print-only theses and dissertations held in the Library’s collection and make them available online with the rest of the collection.Ìý

Completed in the fall of 2016, this four-year project represents a tremendous amount of work and dedication on the part of numerousÌýLibraryÌýstaff. In totalÌýalmost 7,000 theses and dissertations were digitized in the library representingÌýjust over 1,000,000 scanned pages.

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Project credits

  • Amy Buckland, Scholarly Communications Coordinator
  • Jane Burpee, Data Curation and Scholarly Communications Coordinator
  • Megan Chellew, Coordinator, Cataloguing & Metadata
  • Greg Houston, Digitization and New Media Administrator
  • Jennifer Innes, Repository Administrator
  • Jessica Lange, Scholarly Communications Librarian
  • Rebecca Nicholson, Web Support Consultant
  • Alessandra Scarcia, Specialized Cataloguing Editor
  • Sarah Severson, Digital Library Services Coordinator
  • Xiao-Yan Sun, Specialized Cataloguing Editor
  • Elizabeth Thompson, System Analyst

...and many other staff and students over the past four years!

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