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Dissertations and Theses Full Text
Its coverage of the USA and Canada is comprehensive, including masters' as well as doctoral theses. 1861- First 24 pages preview 1997-Includes full-text of theses published as open access.
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Coverage of other countries is less thorough, but there are records from individual universities in places as far apart as the Czech Republic, Australia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Germany. Coverage of US theses goes back to 1861, US and Canadian theses usually have an abstract.
Subject Databases
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DART - Europe
A partnership of European libraries which pool information about their electronic theses.
Egyptian Universities' Libraries Consortium
Contains holdings of Egyptian universities libraries, Master's and PhD of Egyptian researchers, scientific journals published by Egyptian universities ...
EThOS: Electronic Thesis Online Service
A single point of access of over 250,000 theses where researchers from all over the world can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education.
Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland 1716-
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1716.
SUDOC
SUDOC is a French union catalogue which can be restricted to searches on theses and dissertations completed at universities in France.
Theses Canada
1965 onward, a full text PDF version is available freely for theses published from 1998 to 2002.
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Canada portal gives access to citations for the theses available in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection. Access to full-text is restricted to those published between January 1, 1998 and August 31, 2002.
Theses.fr
Theses in France.

Find full-text theses in University catalogs and repositories.

An Najah University (Nablus)
Birzeit University
PQDT Open
Find open access dissertations and theses offered by ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing.
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With PQDT Open, you can read 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.
Library Catalogs Guide
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
An Open Access Initiative union catalog of theses and dissertations from many countries.
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NDLTD provides access to thousand of citations from digital dissertations and theses. Citations are collected from hundreds of universities around the world, as well as partner organizations, including the American Library Association, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Proquest/UMI, and Theses Canada. NDLTD promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations.
Open Thesis
OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents.
Worldwide ETD Index
A global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations.