Theses
- American Historical Association Directory of Dissertations
Jurisdiction: Canada & US
Description:
Contains 28,380 dissertations that were completed or are currently in progress at 200 academic departments in Canada and the U.S.
Access: Access via Web
Link: American Historical Association Directory of Dissertations
- Australasian Digital Theses
Jurisdiction: Australia
Description:
Has ceased operation.
The database server will be de-commissioned, and the content of that database will be accessible from the National Library of Australia's Trove service.
Each participating university will continue to host their own digital theses and house their own print and other non-digital theses.
Access: Access via Catalogue
Link: Australasian Digital Theses
Coverage: Ceased operation 28 March 2011
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) –Dissertations (Global Resources Network)
Jurisdiction: Canada & US
Description:
Holds 800,000 dissertations from universities outside the U.S. and Canada. However, only 20,000 of these are catalogued in the database.
Access: Access via Web
- DART – Europe e-Theses Portal
Jurisdiction: Europe
Description:
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
Provides researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Access: Access via Web
- DissOnline: Digital Dissertationen im internet
Jurisdiction: German
Description:
Provides information on the subject of electronic university publications. It can be used to find out directly about online dissertations and post-doctoral theses. It is also possible to carry out research directly in electronic university publications held by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Access: Access via Web
Link: DissOnline (German version), DissOnline (English version)
- EthOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) (British Library)
Jurisdiction: UK
Description:
Search across 300,000+ theses for free, and order full text quickly and easily (payment may be req).
Possible to order full text quickly and easily - or pay for the initial digitisation.
Primarily, theses from participating institutions; however, the system may include records for theses from a non-participating institution.
The database is updated at least weekly with new records from UK Higher Education Institutions and theses harvested from UK HEI Repositories. Theses are also digitised when ordered by users and these are loaded on a daily basis.
Access: Access via Web
Link: Web
- Finding Theses Research Guide (Uni Melb)
Jurisdiction: Various
Description:
Links to all theses databases held by UniMelb, as well as links to non-UOM databases/services.
Access: Access via LibGuide website
Link: Finding Theses' libguide
- Google Scholar
Jurisdiction: Various
Description:
Simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Includes journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research.
Indexes theses and dissertations from throughout the world. Open access repositories are accessible through Google Scholar, so you can find theses here.
Search tips:
You will have to sort through a lot more results as you cannot limit to "theses". ope
Recommend including either "master's thesis", "doctoral thesis", or "doctoral dissertation" (as appropriate) for search words.
To distinguish theses from other material on the result record, you will see the name of an institute or an open access repository where you wold normally see a publication's details.
Access: Access via Discovery
Link: Google Scholar
- Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland
Jurisdiction: Great Britain & Ireland
Description:
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
Some links to full-text.
Access: Access via Catalogue
Link: Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland
Coverage: 1716+
- NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
Jurisdiction: Various
Description:
An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations.
Does not have an indexing function. Merely a portal to other theses' websites, most of which have been included in this table.
Access: Access via Web
Link: NDLTD
- NZ Research.org.nz (aka Kiwi Research Information Service)
Jurisdiction: New Zealand
Description:
Gateway to open-access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics and other research institutions throughout New Zealand.
Access: Access via Web
Link: NZ Research.org.nz
- Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)
Jurisdiction: Various
Description:
This has a selection of Oxford theses available online.
Students following D.Phil., M.Litt. and M.Sc.(by research) programmes, and who registered since October 2007, are required to deposit a hardcopy AND a digital copy of their thesis. The digital copy should be deposited in ORA.
See ORA libguide for guidance on use.
Access: Access via Web
Link: Oxford University Research Archive
Coverage: 2007+
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest XML)
Jurisdiction: Various
Description:
Collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full-text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.
More than 2 million entries. Includes information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
Access: Access via Catalogue
Link: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Coverage: 1861+
- Scirus
Jurisdiction: Various
Description:
International collection of digital theses for sciences and applied sciences.
Includes the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
Access: Access via Web
Link: Scirus
- Search Foreign Dissertations (Bodleian Law Library, University of Oxford)
Jurisdiction: European
Description:
Index only.
This is a searchable database which contains the author, title and subject details for over 18,000 late nineteenth and early twentieth century European theses dealing with a wide range of legal subjects.
Majority of the theses are in German, French and Italian. In many cases several theses are bound together in one volume.
The database is a work in progress, but with over 8,000 records, it is now possible to discover some of the contents of the collection more easily than previously.
Although there are no known collections of these theses held elsewhere in the UK, they are often to be found in academic and national libraries in Europe.
Access: Access via Web
Link: Search Foreign Dissertations
Coverage: Late C19-early C20
- TEL (thèses-en-ligne)
Jurisdiction: French
Description:
Purpose is to facilitate the self archiving of thesis manuscripts, which are important documents for direct scientific communication between scientists.
Access: Access via Web
- Theses Canada Portal (Library and Archives Canada – LAC)
Jurisdiction: Canada
Description:
LAC makes theses and dissertations visible and accessible by creating bibliographic records available through the Theses Canada Portal.
If LAC acquires electronic versions of theses, the URLs in the bibliographic records provide direct access to the theses.
Access: Access via Web
Link: Theses Canada Portal
- Theses – National University of Singapore (Informit)
Jurisdiction: Singapore
Description:
Bibliographic database that indexes theses submitted to the University of Singapore (NUS) and its predecessor institutions, and which are deposited with the Library.
Access: Access via Catalogue
Link: Theses – National University of Singapore
Coverage: 1947-Sept 2007