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General Databases

Dissertation.com Includes over a million unpublished dissertations, as well as over 600 published dissertations turned into books.
Dissertation Express Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI Proquest. Good for US theses. The fastest way to identify and validate a dissertation is to enter the ProQuest publication number. If you don't have this, enter a word or phrase into the search terms field or the author's last name and the first four words of the dissertation title.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. A significant number of these resources are freely available in full-text and can be viewed online.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) A free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools. Currently indexes 6,420,812 theses and dissertations.
PhdData: The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress PhdData has citations from several thousand dissertations in progress from various parts of the world.
Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global Offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) A searchable international database indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents.
WorldCat.com This database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution. The advanced search screen allows you to limit by Content to Thesis/Dissertation under "Format."

Humanities Dissertations

Directory of History Dissertations Contains 58,854 dissertations that were completed or are currently in progress at 204 history departments in the United States and Canada.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology An international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 16,400 records. Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present. Records include normal bibliographic information as well as publication details and internet availability (if available).
ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences) A searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.

Foreign Dissertations

Abes: Bibliographic Agency of Higher Education (from France) A search engine that gives access to the descriptive metadata of French doctoral theses, defended or with the status "in preparation".
Center for Research Libraries Foreign Dissertations A database for foreign dissertations from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia and more. All are searchable through the CRL catalog.
E-Theses (from Finland) Includes digital doctoral dissertations from the end of the 1990's onwards and the digital version is available for most of the doctoral dissertations that have been published in the 2000's. Only the summary part of the article-based dissertations is usually available.
EThOS - British Library UK’s national thesis service. Includes over 500,000 doctoral theses, with over 260,000 available in full-text.
National Library of Australia Trove A free repository of Australian material, including almost a million Australian theses.
Theses Canada Portal Provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection.

Religion Dissertations

Doctoral Dissertations on Mission Since 1900 Citations for English-language doctoral dissertations on missions and on Christianity outside the West. Only includes dissertations from 1908–2019.
RIM: Research in Ministry Online A thesis and dissertation abstract database hosted by ATLA where users can search for and share the outcomes of research conducted in programs of study related to ministry, theology, and religion.
Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Provides citations to 25,582 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers. Items can then be purchased through this site. Also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies (e.g., Evangelical Theological Society).

Dissertations of Universities

ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.
M.I.T. Theses Contains selected theses and dissertations from all MIT departments. Contains more than 58,000 theses completed at MIT dating as far back as the mid 1800's.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center A free, online database of Ohio's undergraduate, masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted.
Rutgers Electronic Theses & Dissertations (RUetd) Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) have replaced printed theses and dissertations for most Rutgers graduate programs and are available through RUcore.
University of Miami Electronic Theses & Dissertations Preserves and provides access to selected research and scholarly works prepared by faculty, students, and staff of the University of Miami, including dissertations.

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Science Dissertations

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