Faculty of Arts

The Library collects master's and doctoral theses for degrees granted by the University.

The theses are held in the Thesis Collection, in the Scholars' Centre.

You can use the OneSearch to locate UWA theses by keyword, title, Faculty, subject, or call number.

Keyword or title

The most effective way to locate UWA Theses in your subject area is to conduct a keyword search:

1. Go to OneSearch
2. Conduct a search on your topic by typing relevant keywords into the search box and click search
3. In Resource Type, limit your results list to 'UWA Theses' in the left-hand refine options.

Faculty

UWA theses are entered under the name of the faculty, school, department or discipline group under which they were published:

• Architecture, Landscape and the Visual Arts
• Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences
• Business School (Economics and Commerce)
• Education
• Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
• Law
• Life and Physical Sciences
• Medicine and Dentistry
• Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

Alternatively you can perform your own catalogue search for theses by faculty, school or department:

1. Go to OneSearch
2. Enter the school or faculty into the search box and limit to 'as author/creator' in the pull down menu below the search box
3. Click search
4. In Resource Type, limit your results list to 'UWA Theses' in the left-hand refine options.

Consult the University structure pages if you are unsure of school or faculty names.

For more accurate or specific searching search by keyword.

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Subject

Theses can be found by Library of Congress subject heading in the same way as any library resource. Restrict the results list to theses by selecting "UWA theses" in the Resource Type limit in the left-hand pane.

Call number

Note: you can only search by call number in the Library's catalogue.

Thesis call numbers begin with the word "Thesis", followed by the year in which the degree was granted, and the first three letters of the author's surname: "Thesis 1999 SMI"

• A call number search for Thesis will enable you to browse a list of all theses in the Library Catalogue, starting with the earliest.
• A call number search for Thesis 1999 will enable you to browse a list of theses written in 1999 in alphabetical order by author.