Has anyone ever written a thesis which only refers to papers that are available online?

[gusl]

Has anyone ever written a thesis which only refers to papers that are available online? This should be a milestone.

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[bram.livejournal.com]

In astrophysics almost all the papers are available online. Though if you're not at a University or government lab that pays a journal fee, you may be blocked from downloading some of the more recent papers. And perhaps by online you mean in html format and not pdf of a scan?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I meant "available online for free". Any non-encrypted format is fine.

[rdore.livejournal.com]

Presumably, there exists a thesis which does not refer to any papers. So, vacuously, all the papers it refers to are of that form.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

of course, the base case... the first paper ever!

[spoonless.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that almost all papers were available online for free. Maybe it's just in my field, though. Or maybe I just haven't had the need to look at enough papers yet. But from what I understand, just about anything I could want to look at is on one of these two sites (both of which are accessible to me at school as well as home where I pay no subscription fee):

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/

http://www.arxiv.org/