Subject Guides: Theses: International Theses

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BASE Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
Access to 100 million documents (about 60% open access) that have searchable metadata, from over 5,000 content providers.
OAIster
Over 25 million records for digital resources (including theses) from open archive collections; more than 1100 contributors worldwide.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
A central and authoritative resource for information about international doctoral dissertations and masters theses published from 1861 onwards. Useful for discovering United States and Canadian dissertations. Where publication date is post-1997, 24-page fulltext previews available.
PQDT Open
Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
Excellent source with over 5 million electronic theses and dissertations indexed.
An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
OATD: Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Metadata from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions worldwide. Indexes approximately 5 million theses and dissertations.

Countries and Regions

Canada - Theses Canada Portal
Central access point for Canadian theses and dissertations.
China - Hong Kong University Theses Online
Access to theses from 1941. Theses are primarily in English, some are in English and Chinese, while others are in Chinese only.
Europe - DART-Europe E-theses Portal
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. Access to 736,533 open access research theses from 611 Universities in 28 European countries
Europe - Scandinavia - DiVA Portal (Digital Scientific Archive)
Archive of theses, dissertations and other publications in full-text from 44 universities and higher education institutes, mainly from Scandinavian regions. A large proportion of the documents are theses and in English.
France - Theses en Ligne
TEL is an open access collection of multidisciplinary French Ph.D. theses. It provides English and French keywords and abstracts though the title and text of the theses are in French. Full text of most of the theses is available for online display and download.
Great Britain - British Library EThOS
Search freely across 450,000+ theses that are produced in UK Higher Education institutions; theses that have been digitised already are offered to researchers for free downloading.
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FAQs for Researchers - http://ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=2
Great Britain and Ireland - COPAC
Access to the merged online catalogues of many major UK and Irish academic and National libraries, as well as increasing numbers of specialist libraries.
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You can search Copac in Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese or Japanese or whatever language your keyboard will allow you to type in .
New Zealand - Te Puna (New Zealand Libraries)
Refine your search results in Format menu to Book - Thesis/dissertation

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