Resources available to help locate dissertations and theses.
Last Updated: May 16, 2013
URL: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/dissertations
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- Theses Canada Portal
Electronic theses that were submitted to the Theses Canada program between 1998 and August 31, 2002.
- Foreign Doctoral Dissertations
CRL has more than 750,000 foreign doctoral dissertations that can be requested through the Interlibrary Loan service - http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/services/illdd.html.
- Australasian Digital Theses Program
This database contains 135,254 theses, of which, 9,782 are in digital form, from post-graduate research students in 28 participating Australian universities.
- 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. The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments.
- EThOS
Electronic Theses Online Service: access to over 250,000 United Kingdom theses.
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
- SUDOC
A French online catalog providing access to academic university libraries in France. To limit your search to theses, select the Advanced Search Screen and choose "Theses (version de soutenance)" as the publication type.
- Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.5 million theses and dissertations.
- MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It contains over 2 million citations dating back to 1925.
- WorldCat
A bibliographic database of over 62,000,000 records from over 2,000 libraries around the world.