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EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. 

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With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions 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.

EBSCO Open Dissertations 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.

How Does EBSCO Open Dissertations Work?

Libraries can add theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to their institutional repository.  ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to the institution's IR.

EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .

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Indexes over 4 million graduate-level electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) freely available from over 1,100 institutions worldwide . Search for keywords from titles, author names, abstracts, subjects, university/publisher and more. Use More search options to limit searches to a particular field, language, and date range. The search results will include links to full-text theses/dissertations residing on the original hosting site, usually the institutional repository of the school that granted the degree.

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What can I search for here?

This is an index of over 3.5 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

What can I do with the ETDs I find on this site?

Most documents made available for open access allow you to download and read them for personal use. Without specific permission from the copyright owner, do not assume further permissions, such as redistributing ETDs from another web site or using them for commercial purposes.

With few exceptions, the documents indexed on OATD are the property of their authors and are legally protected by copyright. Individual ETDs and host repositories may have specific statements of the author’s rights and your permissions to use the document. In the event that the local repository or the ETD itself states different permissions than the record indexed by OATD, the local statement takes priority.

Where do the records come from?

See this list of sites that contribute records to this index .

Many of these schools’ records come from their own repositories. Others come from regional or national ETD consortia. With few exceptions, records are harvested from these sites using a standard called the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

What definition of "Open Access" do you use?

We define open access broadly to cover ETDs that are free to access and read online. We encourage authors to consider formally specifying use permissions, for example by publishing their theses with a Creative Commons license.

Where does the full text live?

The full text of all papers lives on the original hosting site, usually the repository of the university that granted the degree. OATD indexes about the first 30 pages of some theses in order to show search hits, but in no case does OATD index or store the full text of the paper.

Our school’s ETDs are not in the index. How can we include them?

If your school has a repository of open-access ETDs, check with your repository manager to confirm that it has OAI-PMH harvesting enabled. This is an available option on most ETD or repository platforms, including DSpace, Digital Commons, eprints, ETD-db, and ContentDM. Once you have confirmed that, simply send us the OAI server’s base URL . We recommend that you also register the base URL with opendoar.org and openarchives.org .

If you manage a collection of open access ETDs, but cannot run an OAI-PMH server, please contact us to discuss alternate arrangements. If you have good metadata, we want to include your records.

Our school’s ETDs are in the index, but they don’t show a lot of information. How can we improve them?

There are two causes for this problem. The first is that your repository’s OAI-PMH server doesn’t provide very rich metadata (which may indicate a configuration problem with your repository software). If so, you should work with your repository manager. The second reason is that good metadata is being put into fields we didn’t expect (for example, if publication dates are in note fields, we may not display them correctly). In that case, drop us a line to let us know what we’re missing.

I just found my thesis or dissertation on this site, and I’d rather it wasn’t available on the Internet. Can you remove it from your index?

My thesis is available online, but I can’t find it in your index. Can you add it?

I just found a record with a problem in it. Can you fix it?

The answer to all these questions is the same: talk with the school that provides the record. They may have policies about restricting access to the full text of a thesis, and they control the quality and availability of the record’s data.

Record changes at the originating site will not be reflected in OATD immediately. Records that are deleted or marked as unavailable will remain in OATD until we completely reindex the originating site’s records.

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Please send any questions or comments to Thomas Dowling, dowlintp@wfu.edu .

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And our thanks for the kind support from the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, and for the efforts of the many people who make their ETD content available to the world.

Are there other thesis and dissertation search services? How does OATD compare?

The best known commercial service for searching dissertations is Proquest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT). PQDT includes many, but not all, U.S. dissertations, and a smaller percentage of U.S. masters theses. Access to PQDT is restricted to subscribing institutions: ask your library if you have access. PQDT records are primarily not open access, and Proquest charges for full text access to most theses and dissertations that they index.

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) maintains a union catalog of ETDs. The NDLTD search services do not always differentiate between ETDs that are open access and those which are restricted.

OATD works hard to index only graduate-level theses and dissertations that are freely available to download and read right now. To the extent possible, we leave out closed-access and embargoed ETDs.

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UC Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations

On March 25, 2020, the University of California issued a Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations. The systemwide policy, which aligns with those already in place at individual UC campuses, “requires theses or dissertations prepared at the University to be (1) deposited into an open access repository, and (2) freely and openly available to the public, subject to a requested delay of access (“embargo”) obtained by the student.” Theses and dissertations already made open access can be read in eScholarship, UC’s open access repository and scholarly publishing platform.

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UC's institutional repository and journal publishing platform. Not all campuses have electronic theses and disseartations in eScholarship. Due to copyright restrictions and the need to obtain permissions from authors, not all years are available online. UC campuses began accepting electronic theses and disserations (ETDs) submissions different years. For details see  ETD Preservation and Access Sevice: California Digital Library . UCSB's open access ETDS are in  ADRL . 

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An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The website includes resources on how to find, create, and preserve ETDs; how to set up an ETD program; legal and technical questions; and the latest news and research in the ETD community.

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

OATD.org 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 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,031,307 theses and dissertations.

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Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access. 

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Theses and dissertations produced by students as part of the completion of their degree requirements often represent unique and interesting scholarship. Universities are increasingly making this work available online, and UC is no exception. Find information related to open access theses and dissertations below.

UC has an open access policy for theses and dissertations, but procedures and specifics vary by campus

Several UC campuses have established policies requiring open access to the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) written by their graduate students. As of March 25, 2020, there is now a systemwide Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations , indicating that UC “requires theses or dissertations prepared at the University to be (1) deposited into an open access repository, and (2) freely and openly available to the public, subject to a requested delay of access (’embargo’) obtained by the student.”

In accordance with these policies, campuses must ensure that student ETDs are available open access via eScholarship (UC’s open access repository and publishing platform), at no cost to students. By contrast, ProQuest, the world’s largest commercial publisher of ETDs, charges a $95 fee to make an ETD open access. Institutions worldwide have moved toward open access ETD publication because it dramatically increases the visibility and reach of their graduate research.

Policies and procedures for ETD filing, including how to delay public release of an ETD and how long such a delay can last, vary by campus. Learn more about the requirements and procedures for ETDs at each UC campus:

  • UC Berkeley: Dissertation Filing Guidelines (for Doctoral Students) and Thesis Filing Guidelines (for Master’s Students)
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  • UC Irvine: Thesis/Dissertation Electronic Submission
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  • UC Santa Barbara:  Filing Your Thesis, Dissertation, or DMA Supporting Document
  • UC Santa Cruz: Dissertation and Thesis Guidelines (PDF) from the Graduate Division’s Accessing Forms Online page

Open access can be delayed in certain circumstances

Some campuses allow students to elect an embargo period before the public release of their thesis/dissertation; others require approval from graduate advisors or administrators. Visit your local graduate division’s website (linked above) for more information.

Common copyright concerns of students writing theses and dissertations

Students writing theses/dissertations most commonly have questions about their own copyright ownership or the use of other people’s copyrighted materials in their own work.

You automatically own the copyright in your thesis/dissertation  as soon as you create it, regardless of whether you register it or include a copyright page or copyright notice (see this FAQ from the U.S. Copyright Office for more information). Most students choose not to register their copyrights, though some choose to do so because they value having their copyright ownership officially and publicly recorded. Getting a copyright registered is required before you can sue someone for infringement.

If you decide to register your copyright, you can do so

  • directly, through the Copyright Office website , for $35
  • by having ProQuest/UMI contact the Copyright Office on your behalf, for $65.

It is common to incorporate 1) writing you have done for journal articles as part of your dissertation, and 2) parts of your dissertation into articles or books . See, for example, these articles from Wiley and Taylor & Francis giving authors tips on how to successfully turn dissertations into articles, or these pages at Sage , Springer , and Elsevier listing reuse in a thesis or dissertation as a common right of authors. Because this is a well-known practice, and often explicitly allowed in publishers’ contracts with authors, it rarely raises copyright concerns. eScholarship , which hosts over 55,000 UC ETDs, has never received a takedown notice from a publisher based on a complaint that the author’s ETD was too similar to the author’s published work.

Incorporating the works of others in your thesis/dissertation – such as quotations or illustrative images – is often allowed by copyright law. This is the case when the original work isn’t protected by copyright, or if the way you’re using the work would be considered fair use. In some circumstances, however, you will need permission from the copyright holder.  For more information, please consult the Berkeley Library’s guide to Copyright and Publishing Your Dissertation .

How to find UC Dissertations and Theses online

All ten UC campuses make their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) openly accessible to readers around the world. You can view over 55,000 UC ETDs in eScholarship , UC’s open access repository. View ETDs from each campus:

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Of particular use to alumni and the general public: The following three open access dissertation and theses databases are available. Some titles in these databases are citation only, while others provide free access with links to the full text of the dissertation or thesis cited.

  • EBSCO's Open Dissertations Database Coverage varies by the source database. Provides open access to over 800,000 dissertations from 26 U.S. universities plus the UK. Created from a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs, it uses the standard EBSCO search interface. Consists primarily of three resources--mostly full text titles from OhioLink's open ETD database (mainly 1999 to date); EThOS: e-theses online service of UK dissertations from the British Library (1800 to date); and citations digitized from UMI's Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. (EBSCO is working on extending this coverage from 1955 to date.)
  • PQDT Open A subset of ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. Coverage: mainly 2006 to date. Some earlier titles back to 1990. PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The text, if available, is in PDF format.
  • EThOS: E-Theses Online Service (British Library) Coverage: 1800 to date. Also searchable as part of EBSCO's Open Dissertations database . More than 480,000 titles included with links to the full text for over 100,000 dissertations. About EThOS .

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Many periodical databases in academic disciplines index dissertations in addition to articles and books: MLA Bibliography , PsycINFO , and EconLit are three well-known examples. In general, one would not expect to find dissertations not already cited in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global in these databases. However, it can be a way to locate dissertations written in a particular discipline rather than searching using specific subject terms in PQD&TG.

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A study of the characteristics of a differential privacy implementation , Niveah T. Abraham

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Changes in Audiovisual Word Perception During Mid-Childhood: An ERP Study , Elizabeth Ancel

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Touch Screen Assessment of At-Risk Infant Comprehension , Rachel Elizabeth Hahn Arkenberg

Effects of a mobile tablet device and an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) application on individuals with an acquired communication disorder: Influence on communication abilities and quality of life , Yamini Balasubramanian

Determining the Influence of Evidence-Based Messaging on Millennial Agriculturalists’ Attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) Foods , Erica M. Ballmer

Advanced Torque Control Strategy for the Maha Hydraulic Hybrid Passenger Vehicle. , Pranay Banerjee

MR-compatible Electrophysiology Recording System for Multimodal Imaging , Nishant B. Barbaria

Optimization of Zein Based Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Biosensor for the Detection Of Gliadin as a Marker for Celiac Disease , Emma A. Barber

Automated Power Consumption Scheduling for Connected Appliances in a Remodeled, Energy Efficient House , Andrew W. Batek

Effect of Surface Treatments on Radiation Tolerance of ATI 718Plus Alloy , Yerik Bazarbayev

The Role of Material Complexity in Retrieval Practice Effects , Joseph P. Bedwell

The Effects of Card Playing on Cognition , Julia Nicole Bergmann

Double-Crop Soybean Response to Maturity Group and Plant Population in the Ohio River Valley Region , Stephen J. Boersma

Demonstrator for Selectively Compliant Morphing Systems with Multi-stable Structures , David M. Boston

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Double Perovskites , Andrew Kent Bowser

Comparing Disdrometer-measured Raindrop Size Distributions from VORTEX-SE with Distributions from Polarimetric Radar Retrievals Using the Constrained Gamma Method , Jessica Bozell

Working Equids: A Case Study Investigating if Locus of Control Effects Welfare in Central America , Lauren Ann Brizgys

Exploring Double Consciousness: The Rhetoric and Retention of Black Graduate Students at Predominantly White Institutions , Kimberly Nicole Broughton

Prevalence and Control of Listeria monocytogenes and S. enterica in Retail Produce Environments , John Lawrence Burnett

Supervised Machine Learning Applications to Winter Road Impacts , Kevin D. Burris

Evaluating the Effects of Education on Student Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Regarding Food Waste , Rebecca Busse

High Resolution Temperature Measurement Using TERS , Qian Cao

SafeguaRDP: an Architecture for Mediated Control of Desktop Applications by Untrusted Crowd Workers , Sylvia T. Carrell

Droplet Spreading on a Substrate , Chao-Ying Chen

Evaluation of Economic Improvement in United States and China Pork Industry through Modeling and Genetic Tools , Jian Cheng

Effects of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on adults' diet quality , Kaiyan Chen

UV/Chlorine Treatment of ANTX-a , Moshan Chen

Effects of Carbon Nanotubes on Microbial Growth and Horizontal Gene Transfer , Ran Chen

A Mapping of Applied Electric Fields in the Spinal Cord via Finite Element Analysis , Kavya Cherukuri

Modeling and Parameter Characterization of A Betavoltaic Cell , Darrell S. Cheu

The approach to ridge regression for big data: An examination , Wan-Chih Chiang

Predicting Customer Complaints in Mobile Telecom Industry Using Machine Learning Algorithms , Chiyoung Choi

Experimental Study of Fractional Order Behavior in Dynamic Systems , Rajarshi Choudhuri

Categorizing HBSI Errors Using Wearable Trackers. , Jeffrey Chudik

Evaluation of Additive Manufacturing Technology for Microchannel Heat Sinks , Ivel Lee Collins

Care Givers: Motivating and Enhancing Non-Profit Caregivers’ Experiences , Mingchu Cong

Design and 3D Printing of Integrated Fluid Power Components , Alfonso Costas

The Mnemonic Effect of Choice , Michelle E. Coverdale

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Community Detection in Cyber Networks , Harsha Vithalrao Deshmukh

Using corn zein to improve the quality of gluten-free bread , Aminata Diatta

Validation of Object Identification and Tracking in Radar Imagery , Daniel T. Dietz

Characterization of an Aluminum-Lithium Alloy Based Composite Propellant at Elevated Pressures , Gabriel Diez

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Development of tools to reduce risk of nosocomial and foodborne pathogens exposure , Paula A. Duarte-Guevara

Simulating composite delamination with a damage-type cohesive zone model , Haodong Du

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Enrichment of Turbulence Field Using Wavelets , Yifan Du

Habitat and Interspecific Interactions Affect Mesocarnivore Occupancy in the Eastern U.S. , Michael Egan

BioDynamic Imaging System: A novel, noninvasive method for assessing embryo viability. , Natalie Ehmke

Who Are We Now? Examining Internal Organizational Communication During Crisis , Elizabeth England

Electrostatic Regulation of Phospholipase C beta Enzymes , Candi Michelle Esquina

Parental Restrictive Feeding with Latino Adolescents: Examining the Role of Adolescent Self-Regulation in Associations with Body Mass Index , Carly Danae Evich

Genetics and Genomics of Golden Eagle Populations with Contrasting Demographic Histories , Nadia B. Fernandez

Micropropulsion Trade Study and Investigation for Attitude Control of Nanosatellites , Katherine L. Fowee

Power Management Modeling of Electric Machine Converter Systems , Drummond R. Fudge

Activity markers and horse riding in Mongolia: Entheseal changes among Bronze and Iron Age human skeletal remains , Matthew R. Fuka

Exploring The Effects of a STEM Integrated Program Experience on Girl Scouts’ Pro-environmental Intentions , Miranda E. Furrer

Development of a Finite Volume General Two-phase Navier-Stokes Solver for Direct Numerical Simulations on Cut-Cells with Sharp Fixed Interface , Vishwanath Ganesan

Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for UAV Applications , John J. Ganser

The Effects on User Perception of Uniqueness of Three Factors as Applied to 3-Dimensional Tree Models , Ge Gao

The Acquisition of Aspectual Properties in Reflexive Psych Predicates and Physical Change of State Verbs , Aida Garcia Tejada

Refiguring Hybridity in Star Trek , Elizabeth Gellis

Synthesis of Next Generation Open-Shell Small Molecules: Effects of Functional Group Modulation of Blatter’s Radical , Stephen Gilbert

Conceptual Framework for Implementing Integrated Project Delivery for Infrastructure Projects in Peru. , Sulyn Cossett Gomez Villanueva

The Effects of Agronomic Management and 40 Years of Variety Release on Soybean Seed Fill and Yield Components , Kathryn Graf

Acorn Dispersal and Oak Regeneration in a Managed Landscape , Skye M. Greenler

Aerosol Impacts on Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms in VORTEX2 and VORTEX-SE , Mingyang Guo

Determining the Critical Success Factors in Big Data Projects , Aishwarya Gupte

Polarization in Media: Perception and Reality , Parag Guruji

The Impact of Colostrum versus Formula Feeding and Fat Supplementation on Vaginal Lipidome and Uterine Development in Gilts on Postnatal Day 2 , KaLynn Harlow

Visualization in the Teaching of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Concepts , Claire E. Haselhorst

Modeling of Reynolds Stress Tensor with Embedded Galilean Invariance using a Supervised Deep Learning Algorithm , Dominik Tobias Hauger

Experimental Wave and Material Property Measurements for an Elastomer Binder and Particulate Composite Material , Caleb R. Heitkamp

Brain Atlas and Neuronal Connectivity Visualization and Interaction in Virtual Reality , Lindun He

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    Access to PQDT is restricted to subscribing institutions: ask your library if you have access. PQDT records are primarily not open access, and Proquest charges for full text access to most theses and dissertations that they index. The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) maintains a union catalog of ETDs. The NDLTD ...

  8. Open Access Dissertations

    Open Access Theses & Dissertations. OATD.org 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 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,031,307 theses and dissertations.

  9. Open Access Theses & Dissertations

    Open Access Theses & Dissertations. Theses and dissertations produced by students as part of the completion of their degree requirements often represent unique and interesting scholarship. Universities are increasingly making this work available online, and UC is no exception. Find information related to open access theses and dissertations below.

  10. Open Access Theses and Dissertations

    W&M Digital Archive Search archives of campus publications, records and selected unique or rare digital material; W&M ScholarWorks Theses and dissertations, plus open access scholarship produced by faculty, staff and students ; Government Information Search federal government documents including those available in the Federal Depository Library Program

  11. Open-Access Resources: Theses and Dissertations

    Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) This is a centralized search engine for the growing number of institutional repositories of open-access theses and dissertations. It is international in scope. ProQuest Theses and Dissertations Open Dissertations and theses which have been published open-access. Largely U.S. but some other nations as well.

  12. Dissertations and Theses: A Finding Guide: Open Access, etc

    Open Access (Free) Database. Of particular use to alumni and the general public: The following three open access dissertation and theses databases are available. Some titles in these databases are citation only, while others provide free access with links to the full text of the dissertation or thesis cited. Coverage varies by the source database.

  13. Open Theses and Dissertations

    OATD -- Open Access Theses and Disserations 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 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.6 million theses and dissertations.

  14. Open Access Dissertations

    Dissertations from 2018. PDF. Corporate Social Responsibility of Construction and Real Estate Development Companies in Developing Countries: An Assessment Model, Ahmed Nabil Abdel-Salam. PDF. Effect of Cue Cardinality, Cue Representation and Judgment Options on Human Judgments, Harsh Wardhan Aggarwal. PDF.

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    Theses from 2018. PDF. A study of the characteristics of a differential privacy implementation, Niveah T. Abraham. PDF. Additive Manufacturing for Aerodynamic Diffuser Designs in a Centrifugal Compressor, Ruben Adkins-Rieck. PDF. Synthesis of Stable Open-Shell Moieties and Polymers for Charge Transfer Applications, Varad Vinayak Agarkar.

  16. Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

    Database of theses and dissertations. 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 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.6 million theses and dissertations.

  17. Dissertation Repositories, Open Access

    Open Access Repositories. A free resource, hosted by EBSCO, this database includes more than 172,000 theses and dissertations in total from 1902 to the present. EThOS is the UK's national thesis service. EThOS aims to hold a record for all doctoral theses awarded by all UK universities (institutions).

  18. Find ETDs

    Theses France : Germany: Deutsche National Bibliothek : Hong Kong: HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) 1941 - present : India: Shodhganga: International: Google Scholar : Harvests theses and dissertations from virtually all registered open-access repositories. International: Global ETD Search (previously: Union Catalog) NDLTD's Flagship ETD Search.

  19. Open Access Theses

    Open access is required for University of Melbourne PhD, Doctorate, and Masters Research theses in all but exceptional cases. It may also be required, or encouraged, for Honours and Masters Coursework theses, depending on the school or faculty. When required and approved, temporary embargoes and ongoing access restrictions are possible.

  20. LibGuides: Open Access (OA) Resources: Theses & Dissertations

    PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. Theses Canada. Theses Canada is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Canadian universities.

  21. Dissertations & Theses

    Over the last 80 years, ProQuest has built the world's most comprehensive and renowned dissertations program. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT Global), continues to grow its repository of 5 million graduate works each year, thanks to the continued contribution from the world's universities, creating an ever-growing resource of emerging research to fuel innovation and new insights.

  22. Open Access Dissertations and Theses

    The Open Access Dissertations and Theses Collection consists of electronic versions of dissertations and theses produced by students of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Boyce Digital Library search box searches the full text of these dissertations. The dissertations within this collection are available to all researchers, however ...

  23. LibGuides: Open Access Resources: Dissertation Repositories

    Since July 1998 the German National Library has collected online dissertations and post-doctoral theses. Available only in German. EBSCO Open Dissertations. A free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS)

  24. Preparing your Thesis / Dissertations

    Before you submit your thesis or dissertation, you must ensure it meets UC Irvine's formatting requirements. The formatting requirements are in place to ensure a uniform presentation of UC Irvine theses and dissertations in ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses Global database and the UC's institutional repository, eScholarship.You are responsible for submitting a manuscript that is free of errors ...

  25. Theses and dissertations

    What are theses and dissertations? Theses submitted for doctoral degrees are an important source of original research, as well as research in progress. Postgraduate researchers at Nottingham, and at other UK and international universities, produce cutting-edge research every year, across all subject areas.

  26. Vision

    Vision, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal. Journals. Active Journals Find a Journal Journal Proposal Proceedings Series. ... MDPI's Best PhD Thesis Awards are granted to promising young scholars whose PhD theses are deemed exceptional within their respective research fields. These awards aim to encourage young scholars to ...