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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 7,206,043 theses and dissertations.

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• NDLTD , the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. NDLTD provides information and a search engine for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), whether they are open access or not.
• Proquest Theses and Dissertations (PQDT), a database of dissertations and theses, whether they were published electronically or in print, and mostly available for purchase. Access to PQDT may be limited; consult your local library for access information.

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Search the 6,523,445 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive:

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International Theses: Search Tools

Proquest dissertations and theses.

A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861-present. Full text  since 1997. Abstracts  since 1980 for doctoral dissertations and 1988 for masters' theses. Citations  since 1861.

Citations are indexed in Web of Science in the  ProQuest ™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index  collection. 

Center for Research Libraries

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.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

A collection of more than 800,000 international full text theses and dissertations.

Google Scholar

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

ScienceDirect

A web search engine devoted to Science and Technology.

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

International Theses: By Country

Österreichische Dissertationsdatenbank

The Austrian dissertation database contains the bibliographical data of dissertations approved in Austria from 1990 on, and in most cases the relevant abstracts. (This website is hosted by the National Library of Austria).

National Library of Australia’s Trove Service

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

DART-Europe :  Access to full text theses and dissertations from many countries in Europe.

Europeana : Additional electronic dissertations from other European libraries.

Système universitaire de documentation  (Sudoc): Provides access to records and some electronic theses and dissertations published at French research institutions.

Fichier central des thèses

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) .

México

TESIUNAM: Tesis del Sistema Bibliotecario de la Unam

(Theses from the National University of Mexico / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). To search for electronic theses, click on “tesis electrónicas (REDUNAM).”

Middle East

The Center for Research Libraries and the British Library have made available online 400 UK doctoral theses focusing on the Middle East, Islamic studies, and related subjects.  More information .

The Netherlands

Some Dutch e-theses are available through NARCIS.

South America 

• Some electronic theses from Bolivia, Brasil, Chile and Peru can be found at  Cybertesis.NET , a portal created by the University of Chile (Information Services & Library System) that provides an easily accessible tool to full text electronic theses published in different universities of the world.

For more university/national library catalogues, search for the word University/Universidad and the country (Argentina, Peru, etc.) in Google. Find the link to the library ( biblioteca ) and search the catalogue for theses ( tesis ). You may need to click on the advanced search function ( búsqueda guíada  or  búsqueda avanzada ) and select tesis as a format or type. ​

There are several portals/catalogues in Spain for theses and dissertations. Here are some examples listed on Spain’s  National Library  website:

Spain’s Ministry of Education thesis database (TESEO)

Biblioteca Virtual del Español (on the Biblioteca Virtual, Miguel de Cervantes website)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid’s catalogue

TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)

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

Switzerland

For print and electronic dissertations, please consult the  Swiss National Library  website.

• NDLTD: National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan is an open full-text permanent archive of scholarly research in Taiwan.

EThOS : Access to doctoral dissertations (paper and electronic) from UK institutions of higher education.

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OATD.org provides 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 6,654,285 theses and dissertations.

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By leveraging the rich citation data found in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and with new citation insight tool, researchers can benefit from focused pathways of discovery to build foundational knowledge on various research topics. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year to enrich the citation data continuously.

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Intended for Librarians who want to learn how to use the database's advanced search to support subject area research at their institution. Duration: 2 minutes.

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This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can use the database's advanced search to identify known dissertations by title and search/analyze by languages other than English. Duration: 3 minutes.

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This session reviews how Students, both Masters or Ph, can use the database's advanced search to identify dissertations of known Authors or Advisors and further refine/analyze them. Duration: 4 minutes.

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This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can use the dissertations to retrieve and explore further the Cited References. Duration: 4 minutes.

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This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can identify dissertations with Supplemental files which may contain useful materials for their graduate work. Duration: 3.5 minutes.

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This session will show Students, both Masters or PhD, some Search techniques both Basic and Advanced to locate dissertations on a certain topic. Duration: 5.5 minutes.

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Key dissertation and theses resource

• ProQuest dissertations & theses global ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.

European theses

• Dart Europe DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments. DART-Europe offers partners a European networking forum on ETD issues, and may provide the opportunity to submit collaborative funding applications to achieve DART-Europe's vision for ETDs.
• Depósito de Dissertações e Teses Digitais (Portugal) DiTeD is an intiative of the BNP - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal aiming to create an online digital library of doctoral (phd) and masters dissertations and theses completed in Portuguese universities.
• Dialnet- Spanish theses This resource, run by the University of La Rioja, contains theses from various Spanish universities that are accessible online.
• Dissertations.se Do you want to know what Swedish researchers are up to? Dissertations.se lets you search among university dissertations from Sweden, written in English. At the moment there are 59828 finished dissertations in the database - and about half of these are available for download as PDF.
• Dissonline - German theses Listed by the German National Library
• Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet (DiVA) - Swedish and Norweigan theses DiVA portal is a finding tool for research publications and student theses written at the 36 participating universities and research institutions, mainly in Sweden and Norway
• NARCIS - National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System (Netherlands) Gives access to online theses drawn from the repositories of a range of Dutch universities.
• OpenGrey OpenGrey is a multidisciplinary European resource which provides open access to 700,000 bibliographical references of grey literature produced in Europe more... less... It covers science, technology, biomedical science, economics, social science and humanities. Examples of grey literature include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, conference papers and official publications.
• SwePub Academic publications at Swedish universities. Search among scholarly articles, conference papers and dissertations etc.
• Système Universitaire de Documentation (SUDOC) - French theses SUDOC is a French collective catalogue created by Higher Education and Research libraries and resource centres. It indexes French PhD dissertations in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, law, health sciences and veterinary medicine. Some records include abstracts in French and occasionally in English
• Consulta de la Base de datos de Tesis Doctorales (TESEO) - Spanish theses TESEO is a database compiled by the Spanish Ministry of Education containing theses awarded by Spanish universities since 1976. It provides information on the thesis (author, date, study area, etc.). It also includes an abstract and the location of the thesis, but not full-text access.
• Texis Doctorals en Xarxa (TDX) - Spanish theses TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online), managed by a consortium of Catalan institutions, is a digital cooperative repository of doctoral theses presented at some Spanish universities. The theses can be searched by author, advisor, title, keywords, university, year of defence, etc.
• Theses.fr - French theses Its aim is to provide an entry point to: • all ongoing doctoral theses in France • all awarded theses in France, available in any format (print, digital, commercially published, etc.) • individuals and institutions in connection with these theses.
• Thèses en Ligne TEL (France) The purpose of TEL (thèses-EN-ligne) is to facilitate the self archiving of thesis manuscripts, which are important documents for direct scientific communication between scientists.
• Indian theses and dissertations TheShodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers.
• China masters' theses full-text database China Masters' Theses is a comprehensive full-text database and practical masters' theses full-text database in China, with the highest quality and the shorted publication cycle. It covers a wide range of subjects, such as fundamental science, engineering technology, agriculture, medical science, philosophy, humanity and social science, etc. By now, it has collected 2,799,434 excellent masters’ theses from 711 master degree grantors.

Middle East

• KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology As a condition of graduation, KAUST requires master's students who complete a thesisto deposit it in the KAUST digital archive. Similarly, doctoral students must submit an electronic copy of their dissertation to the KAUST digital archive.

Australia and New Zealand

• Kiwi Research Information Service Open access repository which provides free access to research outputs produced by staff and researchers at a number of colleges and universities based in New Zealand including eprints, research papers, journal articles, conference papers, reports, theses.
• New Zealand Educational Theses Database A national database of New Zealand educational theses from 1961 compiled by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
• New Zealand theses This site includes peer-reviewed and other research, including theses, from universities, polytechnics, and research organisations throughout New Zealand.
• TROVE - Australian theses Trove contains almost a million theses. Some of these are in print format only, others are available online in digital format

North America / Canada

• DSpace@MIT MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) DSpace contains more than 25,000 master and doctoral dissertations completed at MIT dating as far back as the mid 1800’s. Full-text is available for dissertations submitted after 2004.
• Theses Canada Theses Canada aims to acquire and preserve a comprehensive collection of Canadian theses at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and to provide access to this valuable research within Canada and throughout the world.

South Africa

• National ETD Portal South African theses and dissertations Database of theses from South African universities.
• NDLTD Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (United States) Collaboration containing over a million records of electronic theses and dissertations – mainly US where 'thesis' refers to Masters level and 'dissertation' is doctoral.

Worldwide thesis

• American Musicological Society: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM) is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
• Cybertesis Developed by the University of Chile in collaboration with 32 other European universities covering a variety of universities in Europe, North America and Latin America.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide. Our website includes resources for university administrators, librarians, faculty, students, and the general public. Topics include how to find, create, and preserve ETDs; how to set up an ETD program; legal and technical questions; and the latest news and research in the ETD community.
• OAIster Use OAIster to locate and access digital documents held in more than 1100 Open Access repositories. The content includes journal article pre-prints and postprints, research papers, theses, technical reports, image collections, audio files, movies and datasets.
• Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many of these are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) OATD.org is a 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 3,256,024 theses and dissertations.
• Open thesis OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.

South America

• Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações - BDTD - Inicio Catalogue and portal of information about dissertations and theses from Brazilian universities and colleges.
• Hong Kong University Theses Online (Hong Kong) Holds theses and dissertations submitted for higher degrees to the University of Hong Kong since 1941.
• Pakistan Research Repository Pakistan Research Repository is a project of the Higher Education Commission to promote the international visibility of research originating out of institutes of higher education in Pakistan. The aim of this service is to maintain a digital archive of all PhD theses produced indigenously to promote the intellectual output of Pakistani institutions
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