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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.

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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.

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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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International Resources

Further international resources.

This page contains information for locating dissertations from institutions outside of North America. Holdings from Columbia University Libraries and New York Public Research Libraries (NYPL)  supplement Bobst Library's holdings. 

To find catalogs of foreign dissertations in the Library Catalog , conduct a keyword search using the terms "Academic dissertations" "Bibliography" and the name of the country or region of interest.

• Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database Approximately 20,000 foreign dissertations are cataloged in this database. However, CRL has more than 750,000 foreign dissertations. Users may need to search the CRL Catalog or contact CRL to inquire about a specific thesis.
• Networked Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses Search across electronic dissertations and theses from multiple institutions.
• Guide to Theses and Dissertations by Michael M. Reynolds Call Number: NYU Bobst REF1: Z5053.A1 R49 1985 ISBN: 9780897741491 Publication Date: 1986-01-01
• Union List of Higher Degree Theses in Australian University Libraries. Cumulative Edition to 1965. (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: Z5055.A79 U5 OFFSITE
• Union List of Higher Degree Theses in Australian University Libraries (PRINT RESOURCE) Supplement NYPL:1966-1968
• Austrian Dissertations Database (1990-Present)
• Gesamtverzeichnis örreichischer Dissertationen. 1966- (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL Offsite: 1966-1984
• Öterreichische Bibliographie. 1945-Present (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1945-Present
• Répertoire des thèses de doctorat/Repertorium van doctorale proefschriften (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL Offsite: 1971-1980 Organized by three major disciplines: humanities, medicine and science, and then by author name. Includes an author and keyword index. The foreword is in English.
• Dissertation Abstracts Provides some full-text.
• Canadian Graduate Theses in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1921-1946/ Thèses des graduées canadiens dans les humanités et les sciences sociales , 1921-1946 (PRINT RESOURCE) Organized by subject and then by university. Indexes both Master's and Doctorate degrees. Entries include short note on the contents of the thesis. Includes an author and subject index. NYU Bobst: Z5055.C2 O88 OFFSITE
• Canadian graduate theses 1919-1967; an annotated bibliography (PRINT RESOURCE) Covers economics, business and industrial relations NYU Bobst: Z5055.C2 W6 OFFSITE
• Canadian Theses/ Thèses canadiennes , 1952- (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst Z5055.C2O883: 1963-1966 OFFSITE NYPL Offsite: 1947-1965, 1970-72 Columbia: 1985-86
• China Doctor/Master's Dissertations Contains full-text of dissertations from 1999 forward and full-text of masters theses from 2000 forward. Use Internet Explorer, NOT Firefox, to access this database.
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• Dansk Bogfortegnelse , 1851-. (national bibliography) (PRINT RESOURCE) Lists current Danish publications in book form and in microform. Organized in two sections: 1) alphabetically by author and title, 2) by subject heading. The preface is in English. NYPL: 1933-1990 (incomplete) Columbia: 1841-1983, 1987-1988, 1990-2002, 2004 (incomplete)
• E-thesis (University of Helsinki) This site contains doctoral dissertations and other publications from the University of Helsinki. All full-text publications are freely accessible via the Internet.
• Suomen kirjallisuus. Finlands litteratur. (Finnish National Bibliography) (PRINT RESOURCE) Covers all books published in Finland. Organized in two sections: 1) alphabetically by title, 2) by subject heading. There is an index to the subject section. The preface is in English. NYPL Offsite: 1944-1993
• Inventaire des thèses de doctorat soutenues devant les universités françaises. Droit, sciences économiques, sciences de gestion, lettres, sciences humaines, théologies Organized by subject. Indexes "doctorat d'Etat, nouveau doctorat (reg. Jan. 1984), doctorat de 3e cycle, doctorat d'université, docteur-ingénieur". Includes author and university indices. NYU Bobst: Ref1 Z5055.F69 I59 1989-1992
• Catalogue des thèses de doctorat soutenues devant les universités françaises, 1884-1971 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL (Some Offsite): 1884-1960, 1962-1968, 1970-1972 (lacks issues)
• Catalogue des thèses de doctorat soutenues devant les universités françaises. Nouv. sér. 1972-1980 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1973-1978
• Maire, Albert: Répertoire alphabétique des thèses de doctorat ès lettres de universités françaises 1810-1900. NYU Bobst: Ref1 Z5055.F79 M22 1903
• Mourier, Athénaïs Notice sur le doctorat és lettres, suivie du Catalogue et l'analyse des thées françaises et latines admises par les facultés des lettres depuis 1810, avec index et table alphabétique des docteurs' (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: REF1 Z5055.F79 M8 (1810-1880) NYU Bobst: REF1 Z5055.F79 M9 (1880-1902, 3 vols.)
• Annuaire des docteurs (lettres) de l'Université Paris et des autres universités françaises. Bibliographie analytique des thèses (1899-1965)(PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst Main Collection: Z5055.F79 A7
• Bibliographie analytique des thèses de doctorat des universités de France, 1966-1974. (PRINT RESOURCE) Organized in three sections: 1) by university and then alphabetically by author name; 2) by author; 3) by subject and then subdivided into three subcategories: author name, repérage and geographical terms. Organized by subject. Indexes "doctorat d'Etat, nouveau doctorat (reg. Jan. 1984), doctorat de 3e cycle, doctorat d'université, docteur-ingénieur". Includes author and university indices. NYPL: 1977
• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Deutsche Nationalbibliothek is Germany's national library and collects German theses in a comprehensive manner.
• Gesamtverzeichnis deutschsprachiger Hochschulschriften 1966-1980 (PRINT RESOURCE) Covers German language dissertations from Germany (Bundesrepublik and DDR), Austria, Switzerland, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Hungary, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and the USA. Organized alphabetically by author. Also includes a 20 volume Register that indexes each title keyword, which allows for a certain degree of subject retrieval. NYU Bobst REF1 Z5055.G4G47 1984 (40 vols.)

NYU Bobst REF1 Z2221.G47 (150 vols.) This catalog focuses on the totality of German language publications, including German dissertations (Bundesrepublik & DDR) , the dissertations listed in Jahresverzeichnis der deutschen Hochschulschriften, the dissertations from Basel, Bern, Freiburg/Fribourg, St. Gallen and Zhrich (taken from Jahresverzeichnis der schweizerischen Hochschulschriften ) and the dissertations from the Öterreichische Bibliographie.

• Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schriftums. 1700-1910. NYU Bobst Microform MF 13 (791 fiches) This catalog focuses on the totality of German language publications, including dissertations. The dissertations are interfiled alphabetically with the other works. Without the author name it is impossible to locate a particular dissertation. For the period from 1885 onward, subject access is possible by using Jahresverzeichnis der deutschen Hochschulschriften.
• Jahresverzeichnis der Hochschulschriften (PRINT RESOURCE) Columbia Offsite: 1968-1987 Divided by DDR and BRD, then by school, then by dissertation A & B, then alphabetically by author. Includes subject and author indices.
• Jahresverzeichnis der an den deutschen Universitäten und Hochschulen erschienen Schriften. Jahresverzeichnis der deutschen Hochschulschriften. [1885-1969] (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: Z5055.G39B5 1885-1935 Columbia: 1905-1968 Organized by university, then alphabetically by author. Indexed by author and subject.
• Mundt, Hermann: Bio-bibliographisches Verzeichnis von Universitäts- u. Hochschuldrucken (Dissertationen) : vom Ausgang des 16. bis Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst Main Collection: Z5053 .M89 1965 OFFSITE
• Deutsche Nationalbibliographie und Bibliographie der im Ausland erschienenen deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen. Reihe H: Hochschulschriften. 1991- (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1991- Organized by both subject and then by author. Indexed by name, title and keyword.
• Deutsche Bibliographie. Hochschulschriften-Verzeichnis. 1972-1990. (Deutsche Bibliothek) (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1972-1990 Columbia: 1972-1990 Organized by subject heading and then by author. Indexed by name, title and keyword.
• Deutsche Nationalbibliographie und Bibliographie des im Ausland erschienen Schrifttums. Reihe C: Dissertations und Habilitationsschriften. 1968-1990. (Deutsche Bhcherei) (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1969-1990 Columbia: 1977-1990 Organized by both subject and author. Contains a name, title and keyword index.

Great Britain and Ireland

• British Library EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service Search across 250,000+ theses for free and order full text quickly and easily.
• Historical research for higher degrees in the United Kingdom. Part I, Theses completed. 1986- Present (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: Z5055 .G62 1986- Present (Current Year in REF1) Older volumes OFFSITE.
• Historical research for higher degrees in the United Kingdom. Part II, Theses in progress. 1986- Present (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: Z6201 .G625 1986- Present (Current Year in REF1)Older volumes OFFSITE.
• Historical research for university degrees in the United Kingdom. Part I, Theses completed. 1966-1985 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: Z5055 .G62 OFFSITE
• Historical research for university degrees in the United Kingdom. Part II, Theses in progress. 1968-1985 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: Z5055 .G62 OFFSITE
• Bulletin of the Institute of historical research. Theses supplement. 1933-1966 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: Z5055 .G62
• Indian dissertation abstracts 1971-1989 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL SIBL: 1973-1989
• JAIRO: Japanese Institutional Repositories Online Access to tens of thousands of records for dissertations and theses. Full-text availability
• Tesionline Also in print: BNI, Bibliografia nazionale italiana: tesi di dottorato. 1995-NYU Bobst REF1: Z2341.B53 1995- Present
• The union list of theses and dissertations held by universities and research institutions in Kenya (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL Schomburg: 2003-Present

The Netherlands

• Narcis Access to more than 27,000 open access doctoral e-theses from all Dutch universities.
• Bibliografie van nederlandse proefschriften /Dutch Theses, 1977- (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1977-1986 Organized by broad subject area and then alphabetically by author name. Contains an author index.
• Catalogus van academische geschriften in Nederland verschenen, 1924-1976 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1946-1976 Organized by university, then by subject and then by author. Contains an author index.
• Catalogus van academische geschriften in Nederland en Nederlandsch Indie verschenen, 1924-1945 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1924-1945 Organized by university and then alphabetically by author name. Has author index.
• Norsk Bokfortegnelse. Arskatalog. (national bibliography) (PRINT RESOURCE) Columbia: 1975-2002 Organized by author and by subject. Contains a subject and an ISBN index.
• Norwegian National Bibliography
• Nauka Polska

Russia & The Former Soviet Union

• Elektronnaia biblioteka dissertatsii Searchable database of electronic dissertations from the Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka
• Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka Catalog of dissertations and summaries (avtoreferaty)
• Dissertation CIS Russian dissertations (titles in English)
• Dissertations, Tartu University (Estonia) Full text From the University of Tartu in Estonia, a Russian formalist outpost for many decades. This site has dissertations in Russian and English as well as Estonian. Click on "Go" for most recent list. Sort by date, title, or author.

South Africa

• Gesamentlike katalogus van proefskrifte en verhandelinge van die Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite. Union Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations of South African Universities. [1959-1993] (PRINT RESOURCE) NYU Bobst: Z5055.S45M32 1959-1964, 1966-1970 OFFSITE Organized by subject, university and author. Includes Master's and Doctorate degrees. Includes author index.
• Dialnet Free service with full-text theses.
• Tesis Doctorales (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL:Volume 1 (1971/1972)- Columbia:Volume 1 (1971/1972)-
• Svensk Bok-katalog. (national bibliography) (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1866-1965 Organized alphabetically by author and title, as well as by subject heading and then title.
• Svensk Bokforteckning. (national bibliography) (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1948-1997 Lists all Swedish publications. Organized in two sections: 1) alphabetically by author and title, 2) by subject heading and then by title, with a subject index.

Switzerland

• Jahresverzeichnis der schweizerischen Hochschulschriften = Catalogue des Écrits académiques suisses. 1897-1991 (PRINT RESOURCE) NYPL: 1897-1980 Organized by university and then by faculty and then by author name. Contains title and author indices.
• The National Thesis Center of the Turkish Council of High Education Interface in Turkish and English
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