Thesis and Dissertation Support

The links below provide resources for planning, researching, writing, and submitting your thesis or dissertation.  They focus on how the library can support each phase of the process.

Planning 

• Choose a citation manager
• Find other Tufts dissertations and theses
• Develop a data management plan
• Design your study
  • Study designs in the health sciences
  • Find protocols and methods
  • Systematic reviews
• Contact your liaison librarian

Researching

• Search the literature by subject:
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Clinical Medicine
  • Dental Medicine
  • Nutrition
  • Public Health
• How to use Ovid MEDLINE
• Advanced searching techniques
• Collect and analyze data
  • Find health data and statistics
  • Find biomedical data sets
  • Manage your data 
  • Analyze and visualize your data

Writing 

• Use of images and other content
  • Reuse of your own content that you have already published as an article
  • Reuse of content created by others
  • Finding and reusing images
  • Use of sensitive, personally identifiable information
• Use a citation manager
• Find a citation style guide
• Find a book on scientific writing
• Format page numbers in Word
• Get help from a writing consultant

Submitting

• Understand copyright
• Decide if an embargo is necessary
• Help others find and use your work
  • Open access
  • Discovery in Google Scholar
• Publish your thesis
  • Choose where to publish
  • Will making my thesis openly available hurt my chances for publication?
  • Copyright for publishing