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Australian theses

Researchers at universities around Australia produce world-leading research in pursuit of new knowledge and educational qualifications. These theses, long essays or dissertations involving personal research, are shared with Trove by our partner universities. Some of them are in print form only, some are available online in digital format. Here’s how you can search for them in Trove.

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• Go to the Trove homepage and type your keyword into the search box
• Open the Categories drop-down and choose Research and Reports
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• Select the ‘Thesis’ filter on the right-hand side of the screen
• Change the ‘Sort by’ option to Date (latest first) to view the most recently published theses.

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Trove has rules under the hood that identify the Australian-ness of a thesis.

• Go to the Trove homepage 
• Select Advanced search and choose ‘Research and reports’
• Type your keyword into the first box
• Scroll down until you see Australian content and tick that box
• Change the ‘Sort by’ option to Date (latest first) to view the most recently Australian published theses.

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The advanced search form provides options to create a more specific search. We’ve introduced you to the Australian content option, but you can also narrow your search with these filters:

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The Research and Reports advanced search form also contains a field that helps you find theses held at specific organisations. 

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The Australasian Digital Theses Program is a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research students at participating institutions. The project is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training & Youth Affairs. The Postgraduate Studies Committee, the Library and the Graduate School are liaising to create a database of Australian theses on the Web. All postgraduate research students have the opportunity to deposit their theses electronically on the ADT database. The full text of these theses is made available from computers. Abstracts of the theses are freely available to the world-wide community. All theses deposited on the ADT are searchable via a single search engine.

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Library collection To find UNSW Library’s collection of Australian and international theses in print, search Library collection for a title or keywords. Refine your results by selecting Refine my results > Resource types > Dissertations  in the column on the left.

Trove - Australian print and digital theses Trove includes theses at all levels, including PhD, masters and honours. To limit your search to Australian theses only, use Trove - Research & Reports  search. Tick the Australian content box. Next to format select Thesis from the drop-down list.

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BASE BASE academic search engine provides access to the repositories of 8,000 institutions. 60% of the full-text documents are open access.

CORE CORE aggregates open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide.

DART-Europe e-theses portal DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia working to improve global access to European research theses.

EBSCO open dissertations Includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations in addition to theses and dissertations from around the world. Coverage from 1955.

Open access theses and dissertations OATD provides access to open access graduate theses from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. This index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

Theses Canada Theses and dissertations in the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collection.

NZ Research.org.nz Gathers information about documents stored in research repositories from around New Zealand and assembles them in one database. Search open access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics and other institutions in New Zealand at this site. Select Thesis from the Browse by Type menu on the search page. Includes doctoral and masters theses.

Web of Science - ProQuest Dissertations & Theses The Web of Science ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index is a curated collection of multi-disciplinary, international dissertations and theses, including over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities. To search for thesis citations, change the search from Web of Science Core Collection to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index .

Note: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses can be searched at no cost. Researchers can purchase individual theses using a credit card. Beware of paying for theses that are available for free electronically.

Worldcat An international database of library collections. When searching, select the Thesis/Dissertation option form the format list.

Obtaining theses

Many non-UNSW theses are available to download via the open access institutional repositories listed above. Beware of paying for theses that are available for free electronically.

• Some print copies are available for loan and can be accessed via the interlibrary loan service .
• Theses held in closed collections of other libraries and not available for download or loan cannot be accessed via the interlibrary loan service.
• Conditions of access to a thesis are determined by the author and holding library, and are outside the control of UNSW Library.
• Contact the owning library or institution directly to enquire about purchasing a thesis.

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University of sydney theses, higher degree by research theses.

We hold theses written by the University’s Higher Degree by Research (PhD or Masters by Research) students in our collections.

You can find a University of Sydney thesis by searching the  Library catalogue . Select the “Advanced search” and then select “USYD Theses” from the “Material type” dropdown menu.

You can also find digital theses by searching directly in the Sydney eScholarship repository .

Access a digital or digitised thesis

Many of the University’s digital and digitised theses are openly available for download through the Sydney eScholarship repository .

Theses marked “University of Sydney Access” are only available to current University staff and students. Libraries and private researchers can request to purchase a copy of a University of Sydney Access only thesis for AUD$18.50 (incl. GST, within Australia) or AUD$40.00 (international requests).

To purchase a digital thesis, you need to complete one of the relevant request forms below and submit it to [email protected] :

• Individuals requesting a thesis, or library requesting on behalf of an individual
• Libraries requesting a copy to be included in their collection

All requests for copies of material held at the University of Sydney Library must comply with the  Copyright Act of 1968 .

Access a hard copy thesis

Theses that are only available in printed format can be viewed in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library , Level 1, Fisher Library.

We are currently running a project to digitise hardcopy theses. You can request an update to find out where a particular thesis is in our digitisation queue by emailing [email protected] .

We don’t digitise theses on request.

Honours or postgraduate coursework theses

Search for an honours or postgraduate coursework thesis in the repository , then use the filters on the left side of the results page to narrow by “Type”.

You can also search the Honours and Postgraduate Coursework theses collection for a faculty, school or discipline (if available).

There are limited numbers of honours theses in the Sydney eScholarship repository as we have strict requirements for submission of honours theses . If you can't find the thesis you're looking for, we suggest contacting the relevant faculty office.

Theses from other Australian and New Zealand universities

Find a thesis from other Australian or New Zealand universities by searching:

• Australian theses via Trove
• Libraries Australia for Higher Degree theses awarded from 1989 onwards
• Education Research Theses for citations and abstracts from theses submitted from 1919 onwards.

If you’re interested in a thesis that isn't available online, you can request the item through our Resource Sharing Service .

International theses

For theses written and submitted at universities outside of Australia, try the following resources:

• Open Access Theses and Dissertations
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal
• British Library Electronic Digital Thesis Online Service (EThOS)
• EBSCO open dissertations
• French Thesis-On-Line Repository
• History Online – postgraduate theses in History submitted in the UK since 1995
• Index to Theses – listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations – North American theses
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The University maintains a collection of online ANU theses in its  Open Research repository . The University supports the wide dissemination of ANU research into the academic and wider community, and all theses deposited in Open Research appear in the National Library of Australia's  Trove  service and are discoverable by search engines such as Google.

Your thesis is a major research output, and there are  many benefits to making your thesis available open access .

To support the University's commitment to open access to research, the University requires a copy of all Higher Degree by Research student theses and all Undergraduate Honours theses receiving a mark of First Class, to be  deposited in Open Research .

Note: If you have submitted your thesis via the Thesis Submission eform in ISIS please do not use this form, as your thesis will be automatically deposited in to Open Research once your award has been granted. For further information please refer to  Submitting a thesis.

Requesting permission

It is your responsibility to request permission for third-party materials that you wish to appear in the online version of your thesis.  You should allow a significant amount of time for the request process, as it often takes many months to confirm permissions.

Your requests to copyright owners for permission should explain that the work will be included in a thesis that is required to be made publicly available online. Contact details are often included on publishers' web sites and forms for copyright permission requests are occasionally available as well.

If no form is provided, this  ANU template  can be used to request permission.

You should retain copies of permissions for your own records. Copies of permissions do not need to be submitted to ANU.

If permission has not been obtained by the time your thesis is to be submitted to Open Research, please remove the materials for which permission was not received from the public version of your thesis. In the place of the redacted material/s, you may include a short statement, such as:  Figure (Text/Chart/Diagram etc.) has been removed due to copyright restrictions.” 

If possible, include a reference or a link to the source of the material to enable readers to access the removed content.

Thesis by publication

If you are submitting or have submitted your thesis by publication, you must obtain publishers' permission to include each publication in the public version of your thesis in ANU Open Research. Often in your agreement with the journal or book publisher, you have assigned them all rights to the work, although each publisher's policy differs.

When submitting your request to the publisher:

• Check to see if the publisher has an online permission form on their website
• If the publisher does not have a form, this  ANU template  can be used to request permission
• Tell them the amount of the work you wish to use
• State clearly that you are seeking permission to use the work for non-commercial purposes
• Be conscious that the copyright owner has the right to say no
• Be aware that a copyright owner may charge a fee or ask you to sign a licence agreement
• Allow plenty of time, as it may take months for the permission to be granted

If permission has not been obtained at the time your thesis is submitted, please remove the materials for which permission was not received from the public version of your thesis. In the place of the redacted materials, you may include a short statement, such as: " Publication has been removed due to copyright restrictions.” 

Restricting access to your thesis

If you wish to restrict access to all, or part of your thesis you can elect to do so, for up to 12 months, as part of the online submission process. If, after that period, you require an extension to that restriction you will need to make a new application. In the case of a Higher Degree by Research thesis, approval is required from the Dean, Higher Degree Research and can be sought by filling out an  Extension of Thesis Restriction of Access Request Form  or emailing  [email protected] . If approved, the Open Research team will be notified and restrict access to the online version of your thesis in line with the decision made.

For an Undergraduate Honours thesis, please send an email to the Head of School, detailing the reasons for the extension of the restriction and the time period being sought. If your request for an extension is approved please send a copy of the approval email to  [email protected]  and we will action the restriction approval accordingly.

Concerns over publication refusal and plagiarism

Increasingly publishers across a range of disciplines are willing to accept submission for books, or journal articles, where the associated thesis is available via open access. This is also been proven by a number of studies:

• Ramirez et al, 2013
• McMillan et al 2011 (PDF, 820.54 KB)  

It is also worthwhile noting that by publishing your thesis open access it will make it available to more potential publishers, as indicated by Harvard University Press Assistant Editor Brian Distelberg in his blog posting ' Can't Find It, Can't Sign It: On Dissertation Embargoes ' 

"I'm always looking out for exciting new scholarship that might make for a good book, whether in formally published journal articles and conference programs, or in the conversation on Twitter and in the history blogosphere, or in conversations with scholars I meet. And so, to whatever extent open access to a dissertation increases the odds of its ideas being read and discussed more widely, I tend to think it increases the odds of my hearing about them."

ANU graduate Barbara Dawson successfully  published a book  through the prestigious ANU Press, based on her PhD thesis " In the eye of the beholder : representations of Australian Aborigines in the published works of colonial women writers '

Depositing your thesis in an open access repository such as the University's Open Research repository establishes your identity as the author and makes it much more difficult for others to claim your work as their own. 

Useful videos and blog posts

• Harvard Professors Gary King and Stuart Shieber provide  advice to graduate students  on the benefits of open access, in particular for theses (dissertations).
• If you wish to publish a book from your thesis the blog post  It's a Dissertation not a Book  by Leonard Cassuto provides advice on the rewriting process for books from theses. 
• If you are wondering whether it’s better to make dissertations open access immediately or embargo them look at  Dissertation Dilemma: To Embargo or Not to Embargo?  By Shawn Smith-Cruz
• Randy Schmidt, Senior Editor at University of British Colombia Press, provides advice on  "how to turn a thesis into a book"

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Reference Documents

• Permission to Deposit Honours or Masters thesis (PDF, 60.56 KB)
• Extension of Thesis Restriction of Access Request Form (PDF, 103.66 KB)
• ANU Thesis by publication permission form (DOCX, 39.02 KB)
• ANU Copyright Permission Request form (DOCX, 43.57 KB)

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TROVE have created a Quick search guide to help you locate theses on their site.

The National Library of Australia  holds a selection of theses presented to Australian universities.  

• Australian Education Research Theses A comprehensive source of research found in doctoral and masters research theses accepted by all Australian universities in the field of education. It also includes some overseas theses on Australian education topics.
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