About this site: Highlights from the collection听
We invite you to discover McGill鈥檚 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 of听McGill鈥檚 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 McGill Library
- 0.987- the length of the听historical print collection in kilometres when shelved听in Rare Books and Special Collections
- 2005听鈥� the year 香蕉视频听starts accepting theses submitted electronically听
- 41,975 - the number of theses and dissertations that are available and fully searchable in听 (October 20, 2016)
The historical theses and dissertations print collection听at the McGill Library听is now housed in Rare听Books and Special Collections. It was听originally only available for consultation听onsite or听by 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.听
In 2005, 香蕉视频 started a pilot project to allow听electronically submitted theses and in 2007 the Library started making these听available through the institutional repository, . In 2009, McGill announced the pilot was a success and mandated that all theses incoming be submitted to the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies office听electronically before being transferred to the Library.
Now with almost 42,000 full-text theses and dissertations available, 听provides a rich research database of McGill scholarship.听
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About the retrospective thesis digitization project
Begun in 2012, the goal of McGill Library and Archives' Retrospective Thesis Project was to digitize all of the print-only theses and dissertations held in the Library鈥檚 collection and make them available online with the rest of the collection.听
Completed in the fall of 2016, this four-year project represents a tremendous amount of work and dedication on the part of numerous听Library听staff. In total听almost 7,000 theses and dissertations were digitized in the library representing听just 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!