Theses and Dissertations

Canadian Graduate Theses Search

CRL holds more than 800,000 doctoral dissertations outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Search dissertations in the dissertations section of the CRL catalogue.
Digitized dissertations can be searched in the catalogue's e-resources section.

This is a cooperative repository of digital theses from the University of Cataluña and other autonomous communities (such as Murcia, Cantabria, Barcelona, and Oviedo)

A project of the University of Chile, Cybertesis provides full-text access to electronic theses from several South American universities, including institutions in Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

DissOnline provides information on the subject of electronic university publications. It can be used to find out directly all about online dissertations and post-doctoral theses. Sample documents can be downloaded to provide help in the creation of electronic university publications. For more information about the portal, please go to German National Library website (DNB).

Some Dutch e-theses are available through NARCIS.

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Try searching Google Scholar for theses posted on institutional digital repositories or on personal web pages.

A collaborative effort of the NDLTD, OCLC, VTLS, and Scirus, the NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations. For students and researchers, the Union Catalog makes individual collections of NDLTD member institutions and consortia appear as one seamless digital library of ETDs.

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,775,433 theses and dissertations.

users will have access to search, discover, and preview more than 700 million documents, in formats ranging from HTML, to PDF, to video, to books, and more. They can also download the full text, as available, of any open access content, including the more than 50,000 dissertations and theses available today on PQDT Open.

Search for full text digital theses from Australian universities.
On the Advanced search screen under Format, select Thesis

Search for dissertations, theses and published material based on theses catalogued in WorldCat by OCLC member libraries worldwide.
In Advanced Search, you can search by author, title, subject, year, and keyword.
Under Subtype Limits, select Theses/Dissertation from the Any Content menu