This community houses work produced by South Dakota State University graduate students. The collection includes both born digital ETDs, and digitized versions of printed theses and dissertations from 1883 to 2012.
Due to copyright restrictions, the collection contains both open access and university access theses and dissertations. University access items are only available to SDSU users, and on-campus visitors. Non-SDSU users wishing to access restricted materials may request items through their institution’s interlibrary loan services.
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ETDS from 1960
An Analysis of Front Page News Pertaining to Juveniles in South Dakota Daily Newspapers for the First Three Months of 1960 with Regard to Favorable and Unfavorable Content, Harlan S. Stensaas
Study of Dietaries and Nutritional Status of Adolescent Indian Girls in Boarding Schools of the Dakotas, Margaret I. Talcott
A Study of Seventh Grade Problems Compiled into a Check List, Catherine Thurston
A Study of Certain Cultural Practices and Chemicals for the Control of Wild Oats (Avena fatua L.), Wilford Henry Wallace
Strength and Physical Fitness of Rural Versus Urban Boys as Determined by the Rogers Physical Fitness Index, James L. Welton
Unidentified Growth Factor(s) in Soybean Oil Meal, Robert Wilcox
Periodicals Printed in South Dakota from Territorial Beginning Through 1930, with a Check List of Periodicals, Maxine Schrader Wiseman
Derivation of the Equation for the Instantaneous Diffusion Current at the Cylindrical Drop Mercury Electrode, Prodromos Xenides
ETDS from 1959
Attitudes of Students Studying Huxley's Brave New World: An Analysis, David Kenneth Adams
A Spectrophotometric Investigation of the System Iron (III) Perchlorate-Ethylene Glycol-Water, Glenn H. Allcott
Development of a Group of Indian Pupils in Strength and Motor Educability as a Result of A Year's School Activities, Donald L. Bartlett
The Clear Lake Courier as a News and Advertising Medium: A Pilot Study, Charles Jarl Bellman
Economic Opportunities Available to Farmers on 160-Acre Farms in Southeastern South Dakota, Leonard R. Benning
An Analysis of Farm Enlargement by Owner-Operators in Spink County, South Dakota, 1958, Kenneth J. Binkley
The Utilization of Time by Instructors of Vocational Agriculture in South Dakota, Arthur L. Bruning
An Analysis of FFA Chapter Owned Livestock Projects in South Dakota, Eldred Chicoine
A Study of the Effect of Ammonium Hydroxide, Acetone, and Phenol on the Transference Number of Copper (II) Ion, Joe Boyd Coacher
A Comparison of Public Owned and Private Owned School Transportation Systems of the Minnesota State High League, Region Number II, Roger William Cook
The Effect of One Semester of Physical Education on Male Freshmen and Sophomores at Yankton College, Douglas L. Cowman
Marketing Northern Alfalfa Seed, Dale C. Dahl
A Study of the Attitudes of Teachers of Technical Subjects at South Dakota State College Toward Student Proficiency in Language Skills, Walter C. Daniel
Evaluation of Final Weight in the Selection of Performance Tested Bulls, Delwyn D. Dearborn
Soil-Cement Stabilization for Roads, Dogan S. Dorkan
Analysis of Summer Spotlighting for Determining Deer Populations Indices, Donald C. Duerre