ODU graduate students began submitting their theses and dissertations electronically (ETDs) in 2016. Because these unique research resources are available globally through the University's institutional repository ODU Digital Commons, our ETDs have been downloaded more than any other collection in the repository.
To expand on this success, the Graduate School purchased digital copies of 2,488 pre-2016 dissertations and theses from ProQuest. The Libraries completed a project to add these files to ODU Digital Commons, further increasing ODU's research visibility. There are now more than 3,400 electronic theses and dissertations available, and they have been downloaded more than 250,000 times.
See if you can find yours: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/etds/
Since Master's theses were not required to go to ProQuest (UMI), pre-2016 theses are only available in print. We hope to digitize these approximately 2,200 items, and add them to the repository, so that the full scope of ODU graduate scholarship is available worldwide. In the meantime, if you have an approved, electronic copy of your pre-2016 ODU Master's thesis, we'd love to make it available. Please send it to Karen Vaughan at kvaughan@odu.edu.