New College Theses Online Database User Guide:

New College Theses Online Database is the comprehensive bibliographic database of New College Senior Theses published from the charter graduating class of 1967 to the present. The database is only accessible from on campus computers.

Quick Search

Using Quick Search, you can perform very simple searches. Enter one or more words to find theses.

Examples:

1999 finds all theses written in the year 1999

griffin finds all theses authored by persons with the last name griffin

nietzsche finds all theses titles that contain the word nietzche

elderly and 1988 finds all theses titles that contain the word elderly and were written in 1988
 

Advanced Search

Using Advanced Search, you can perform simple or complex searches. Enter a search term or phrase in one, two, three, or all eight of the blank text boxes. You can select the boolean operators "and", "or", or "not"  from the drop down menus. You can select fields to search  from the drop down menus. Use all nonindexed fields, to narrow your search to a specific sponsor and/or division. Note: To narrow your search to specific divisions, enter hum, natsci or socsci in the text box.
 

Examples:

Callahan and 1992 finds all theses sponsored by Callahan and written in the year 1992.
Use the all nonindexed fields search field to restrict your search to a specific sponsor.

Miller and Hum finds all theses sponsored by Miller and in the Humanities division.
Use the all nonindexed fields search field to restrict your search to a specific division.

NatSci and 1994 finds all theses in the Natural Sciences that were written in 1994.
Use the year search field to restrict your search to a specifc year.

SocSci  and 1990-2000 finds all theses in the Social Sciences division
that were written between the years 1990 and 2000.
Use the year search field to restrict your search to a specific range of years.

Hermit Crab and Gilchrist finds all theses titles that contain the words hermit crab and were
sponsored by Gilchrist. Use the keywords search field to restrict your search to specific keywords
in a title.

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