Welcome to Brown’s Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) system. Launched in 2008, the ETD system is jointly sponsored by the Graduate School and the University Library. The system was designed to collect and archive the dissertations of Ph.D candidates wishing to submit an electronic (instead of paper) version of their final dissertation as a text-based PDF file. The service will be extended to master’s theses in the near future.

To complete the submission process doctoral candidates must have successfully defended their dissertation and had it approved by their committee. To use the ETD system, doctoral candidates must also be actively enrolled and posses a valid username and password for accessing Brown’s computer network. If you are unable to create an account in the system and wish to submit, please contact ETD@brown.edu for assistance.

Electronic dissertations submitted through this process will appear in Josiah, the Library catalog, in Brown's digital repository, in the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), and in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations database.

A searchable historical database of Brown University Theses and Dissertations includes over 15,000 records for dissertations written and submitted in fulfillment of Brown University degree requirements from 1893 to 2000.