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Electronic Theses from the UK hosted by the British Library.
Please note: Following a cyber attack on the British Library the EThOS service is currently unavailable. Teesside University Doctoral theses can be searched on the Teesside University Research Portal. Please contact libraryhelp@tees.ac.uk if you require support accessing theses.
DART is a European consortium of research universities working to increase the usage of electronic theses.
The DART database provides a single search box for theses available electronically which were published in Europe.
Search DART-Europe.eu
Search electronic theses from Library and Archives Canada
Trove collects numerous online and Open Access collections from across Australia. You can search for Open Access Theses by choosing Theses as a format under the advanced search options
Search trove.nla.gov.au
While there is no national database for theses in the USA, ProQuest indexes much of the work produced. Not all of this content is freely available however and on occasion you may only be able to access a work by paying a fee. You can use the advanced options in ProQuest to search for Dissertations and Theses.
ProQuest also runs PQDT Open which you can use to search open access full text theses and abstracts in the USA.
Search Open Access theses through PQDT Open
Unfortunately if a thesis is not available online we are unable to request it through inter library loan. If you are having trouble using these collections help is available through the Learning Hub.
Please note: Following a cyber attack on the British Library the EThOS service is currently unavailable. Teesside University Doctoral theses can be searched on the Teesside University Research Portal. Please contact libraryhelp@tees.ac.uk if you require support accessing theses.
EThOS is a database providing access to an increasing number of UK research theses. Paper theses are digitised (with permission from participating institutions) and can be downloaded free of charge. Theses should be ordered directly from EThOS, which is accessed at http://ethos.bl.uk/
You can choose to use the basic or advanced search functions. The advanced search option allows you to search by author, subject, keyword, institution and title.
If you are looking for a specific thesis which does not show up in the results, check the list of institutions to see if the relevant University is participating in the EThOS scheme.
From the EThOS home page look under the search box for 'Can't find what you are looking for? Click here to ask our experts.'
Follow the link and complete the form.
You will need to register and log in if you want to download a thesis or to order digitisation of a thesis. Existing customers will be prompted for their email address and password. New customers should click on the “Register” button and complete the online form. Registration is available free of charge and allows the British Library to track plagiarism.
Digitisation of a thesis is a costly process involving significant manual effort. Many institutions participating in EThOS have agreed to pay for digitisation of their theses in support of Open Access. However, some institutions may not have the budget to fund the digitisation and customers pay for the digitisation by a payment on their credit/debit card at the time of placing the request. Once a thesis is digitised it is available for free download thereafter.