Finding dissertations

Dissertation catalogs

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Includes citations for dissertations accepted at accredited universities in the United States from 1861 to the present. The full text of dissertations submitted since the 1990s, and sometimes earlier, is available for free downloading.
  
  
• Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. CRL has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign dissertations, of which approximately 20,000 are included in the online catalog. CRL also maintains a list of universities from which it receives printed dissertations on exchange or deposit and the date when this began. Request items via University of Chicago Interlibrary Loan.
  
  
• British Theses at the British Library Request items through the University of Chicago's Interlibrary Loan office.
  

• Sammlung Digitaler Dissertationen in Deutschland: A gateway to online dissertation sites of many German universities.
  

• Serveur de Thèses Multidisciplinaire / Multidisciplinary Theses Server: Still limited in content, but provides access to the full text of mostly French dissertations.
  
  
• Theses Canada Portal: Central access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program. Note that Canadian dissertations published in French between 1998 and August 2002 are available in pdf format from the National Library of Canada, through the NLC's online catalog.
  
  
• TESEO (Bases de datos de tesis doctorales): Covers theses completed at Spanish universities since 1976. Search by author, title, keyword, abstract, and university.
  
  
• Tesionline: A service brought by the Corriere della sera, Tesionline provides bibliographic and full text access to over 8,000 Italian theses and dissertations, from the bachelors level to doctoral dissertations.