EBSCO Open Dissertations
Search millions of electronic theses and dissertations (etds).
With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. Our goal is to help make their students’ theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible.
This approach extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.
Get involved in the EBSCO Open Dissertations project and make your electronic theses and dissertations freely available to researchers everywhere. Please contact Margaret Richter for more information.
University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
How to Find Dissertations and Theses
Finding dissertations, obtaining dissertations.
- University of Illinois Dissertations
- Non-Illinois Dissertations
- Dissertation Tracking
Ask a Librarian
This guide will help you find dissertations both from the University of Illinois and beyond. Dissertations can be hard to find, because they are not published like books. This guide will explore the resources that can help you find and request dissertations.
In this guide you will find:
- Obtaining Dissertations-how to request dissertations and theses (in the box below)
- University of Illinois Dissertations -how to find University of Illinois dissertations and theses in our online catalog, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, and in IDEALS
- Non-Illinois Dissertations -resources for finding dissertations and theses from all over the country and the world
- Dissertation Tracking -how to keep track of the dissertations and theses that are being completed in your field
Dissertation Express
If a dissertation or theses is not available through our Library or available online, you can file a request with our Interlibrary loan department . If they are unable to find a circulating copy, they will provide the option of using Dissertation Express, a fee-based service that obtains dissertations in 4-5 business days. The library pays for the dissertation, and retains it after you are finished with it. You, in turn, pay the $25 Dissertation Express shipping fee. For more information about this service, see the Interlibrary Loan Office's Dissertation Express FAQ entry .
Works in IDEALS
For U of I authors whose dissertations or theses are in IDEALS , the Library can provide you with a PDF file of your work. Contact us at the email address listed on this page .
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