Dissertations and Theses A&I
This database is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day.
ETHoS (Electronic Theses Online Service) from the British Library (full text)
Where a thesis has been digitised previously by the British Library, it may be available to download
for free. In other cases, you may have to request that the British Library digitise the thesis. There
will be a cost and a wait involved.
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TEL (Théses-en-ligne)
Tel is an initiative of Le CCSD (Centre pour La Communication Scientifique Directe). It aims to provide free access to online versions of Doctoral PHD theses submitted at French Universities and Colleges. All subject Areas of the sciences, social sciences and humanities are covered.
National ETD Portal (South African Theses and Dissertations)
This site is run by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) in collaboration with Committee of the Higher Education Librarians of South Africa (CHELSA). Metadata for all theses and dissertations produced in South Africa are collected and made accessible, as well as disseminated further, for the site.
WorldCat
Search for thesis only: go to Advanced Search and change content to "Thesis/Dissertations"
Google Scholar (citations, abstracts and full text)
Open access repositories are accessible through Google Scholar so you can find theses here. You will have to sort through a lot more results as you cannot limit to "theses".
To distinguish theses from other material, on the result record, where you normally see publication details you will see the name of an Institute or an open access repository.
Institutional Repositories in general
When you know the Institute that awarded the Degree, you could check to see if the institution has an Institutional Repository and then search that for the thesis.
RIAN
Ireland’s national portal for open access to Irish published research provides a single point of access to national research output and contains content harvested from the institutional repositories of Irish academic and research institutions, including the University of Limerick through the Research Repository. This includes Masters and Doctoral theses from participating institutions.
