LibGuides: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Industrial Engineering and Civil Engineering subject guide: Theses

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The most recent bacheloor's theses of the mechanical engineering

The most recent bachelor's theses of the Industrial Engineering and Management

Guides for Electronic theses

Electronic theses at the University of Oulu

Muuntaja - converting a thesis into PDF/A format
Laturi enables students to submit completed electronic diploma and master’s theses for review and for saving in the university archive and library database.
Turnitin is a plagiarism control system used at the University of Oulu
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The most recent master's theses of the mechanical engineering

The most recent master's theses of the Industrial Engineering and management

Master's theses and licenciate theses

Electronic diploma theses in mechanical engineering available to the public in Jultika-database from 2013.
Electronic diploma theses in Industrial Engineering and Management available to the public in Jultika-database from 2013.
For access to all electronic diploma theses there are E-theses worksations in the library.
Diploma theses from the Department of Mechanical Engineering 1966-2012
Diploma theses in Industrial engineering and Management 1994-2012 in Oula-Finna
Licenciate theses from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Oula-Finna
Licenciate theses in Indusrial Engineering and Management in Oula-Finna

Dissertations

Electronic dissertations and theses from other universities of Finland

Aaltodoc publication archive This link opens in a new window
Publications produced at the Aalto University
ePubl - School of Business publications portal This link opens in a new window
School of Business electronic publication portal until 2013.
From 2014 onwards publications are available in Aaltodoc publication archive.
Inssi This link opens in a new window
Contains bibliographical references to Master's, Bachelor's and Licentiate theses accepted at the Aalto University Schools of Technology and the former Helsinki University of Technology in 1900-2016.
Theses from 2017 onwards will be available only in the Aaltodoc publication archive.

UEF eRepository This link opens in a new window
The open access materials repository of the University of Eastern Finland

E-thesis (University of Helsinki) This link opens in a new window
Digital dissertations and theses at the University of Helsinki
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Helda - Digital Repository of the University of Helsinki This link opens in a new window
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JYX Digital Repository This link opens in a new window
Jyväskylä University Digital Repository

Lauda This link opens in a new window
University of Lapland's institutional repository.
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LUTPub This link opens in a new window
The publication repository of the Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology (LUT)

Trepo This link opens in a new window
Open institutional repository of Tampere University
Tampere University Research Portal This link opens in a new window

UTUPub This link opens in a new window
Open institutional repository of the University of Turku
Research Portal of the University of Turku This link opens in a new window
Provides information on researchers and publications of the University of Turku.

Osuva This link opens in a new window
The University of Vaasa publications archive

The Åbo Akademi University publications repository This link opens in a new window
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