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Hello, everyone.  Thank you!  Attached is the list of theses and dissertations websites suggested by many of you; nearly all of them allow free searching:

 

Abes: Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Superieur (from France)

http://www.abes.fr/abes/DesktopDefault.aspx?Loupe=Moin  

 

Australian Digital Theses Program

http://adt.caul.edu.au/

 

Caltech theses

http://etd.caltech.edu/ETD-db/ETD-browse/browse?first_letter=all

 

Center for Research Libraries foreign dissertations

http://www.crl.edu/catalog/dissertationSearch.asp

 

Cybertesis.net

http://www.cybertesis.net/index-en.html

University of Chile, provides access to 27,000 etheses from 35 world universities

 

DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP)

http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). Access to 106,000 doctoral theses.

 

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology

http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm

This is an international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 12,000 records.  Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present.  (This is probably more appropriate for a public or music library.)

 

Digital Library and Archives

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses

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.

 

Directory of Dissertations in Progress

http://www.historians.org/pubs/dissertations/index.cfm

“The Directory contains 3,804 dissertations in progress at 170 academic departments in Canada and the U.S.”  This is a citation database of dissertations in progress in the area of history.

 

Dissertation Express

http://disexpress.umi.com/

Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI Proquest. Good for US theses. It’s free to search the database. To order full text costs $34 each. Digital Dissertations is a subset comprising all dissertations in the Dissertation Abstracts database with a degree date of the current and previous year. It’s easier to search and browse and you also get 24 page previews before you buy.

 

Dissertation.com

http://www.dissertation.com

Dissertation.com has just a few hundred dissertations and theses in its collection, but the site allows free, full-text access to the first twenty-five pages of each item.

 

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UVa)

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etd/home.html

 

ERIC

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

 

E-Theses (from Finland)

http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/en/

 

EThOS

http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

Full text of theses from the British Library. This is running in beta at the moment

 

Le Fichier central des thèses (French dissertations in progress)

http://fct.u-paris10.fr/index.jsp

 

Index to Theses

http://www.theses.com/

(Subscription database)

 

M.I.T. Theses

http://dspace.mit.edu/

 

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

http://www.ndltd.org  

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.

 

OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center

http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/faq.html#who-can-use

http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/  

http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/world.cgi  

 

PhdData: The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress

http://www.phddata.org

PhdData has citations from several thousand dissertations in progress from various parts of the world.

 

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)

http://proquest.umi.com/login  

(Subscription database)

 

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)

http://roar.eprints.org/?action=home&country=&version=&type=theses&order=name&submit=Filter

 

RIM: Research in Ministry Online

http://rim.atla.com/star/rimonline_login.htm

“RIM® Online is a freely available database that indexes DMin and DMiss projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981.”

 

Rutgers Electronic Theses & Dissertations (RUetd)

http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/etd/

 

TEL : thèses en ligne

http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/

 

Theses Canada Portal

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html   

Theses Canada provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection.  Access to full-text theses is available for all items published between January 1, 1998 to August 31, 2002.

 

Thèses de l'Université de Lyon 2

http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/

 

TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network

http://www.tren.com

TREN provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers.  Items can then be purchased through this site.  The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.

 

University of Miami Electronic Theses & Dissertations

http://etd.library.miami.edu/

 

Vidyanidhi: Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal (from India)

http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/

 

WorldCat dissertations and theses

http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPrefs?entityjsdetect=:javascript=true:screensize=large:sessionid=fsapp7-42444-fybv4c0t-cxbxbo:entitypagenum=1:0

 

Although the WorldCat Dissertations & Theses database is only available by subscription to FirstSearch, WorldCat is available for free.  The advanced search screen allows you to limit by Content to Thesis/Dissertation.  Here is the link: http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch

 

 

Take care,

 

Tanya

 

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Hello, everyone.  Could you please email me the URLs of free, online dissertation/theses databases?  I will summarize to the lists.

 

This is what I have so far:

 

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Thank you,

 

Tanya

Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L http://www.geocities.com/nqiya/libraryarticles.html formerly Tanya Feddern
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