Research Guides: Theses and dissertations: Websites

Websites to explore

CALIS 学位论文库
This database allows bibliographic access to a collection of theses and dissertations held at some academic libraries in mainland China
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
Provides access to 106,000 doctoral theses providing researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).
Digital Library of MIT Theses
A collection of selected MIT master's and Ph.D. theses. Full text can be viewed online but no printing is allowed. Users can also order a copy of a document.
EThOS
From the British Library. Search and order U.K. theses online. Many are available for free.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a subset of Google. It covers scholarly publications. You can search it to see if the thesis/dissertation is freely available.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
An index of over 1.5 million open access electronic theses & dissertations published around the world. The full text of many is free to access and read online. Includes research from N.America, Europe, Australia, & more.
PQDT Open
Free full text of open access dissertations and theses. Covers research from the U.S. and Canada. From ProQuest.
Thesis Canada Portal
Provides access to the full text of many Canadian theses and dissertations.
Trove (Australian Digital Theses)
Tove is a database from the National Library of Australia and contains digitised PhD and MPhil theses from Australian universities. Many are available in full text.
The Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
Worldwide index of dissertations in progress.
WorldCat
Searches the catalogues of libraries worldwide and also the digital repositories of academic institutions. Some full-text available.

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Worldwide ETD Index
A global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations ) collections from around the world.
臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
This database indexes, with abstracts, the doctoral and master's theses from universities in Taiwan from 1958.

Digital repositories

A digital repository contains the research output of an academic institution including theses and dissertations.

Tip. Can't find the full-text of a thesis/dissertation?

Search the repository of the institution where research was completed or try WorldCat.

CityU Scholars
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories
Sherpa - Searches the content of UK digital repositories