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Finding McGill theses

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Electronic access to McGill Theses

  • eScholarship@McGill is an open access digital repository of publications and theses of McGill University faculty and students. To date, over 27,500 McGill theses are available in eScholarship@McGill.
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text

    Summaries and/or full-text of dissertations from McGill University as well as from other participating North American and European institutions; first 24 pages of others 1997-   (some 1996). Masters theses abstracts or full-text 1988-. McGill coverage in this database begins ca. 1934.

Print copies of McGill Theses

Finding theses from other institutions

  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text is available to the McGill Community. This database includes dissertation and thesis citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day, including full text of most of the dissertations added since 1997.
  • Theses Canada Portal provides free access to the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations published from 1998 onward.
  • Index to theses provides a listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. (Not full text.)
  • Dissertation and master's thesis reproductions are available for purchase from UMI: Call toll-free for this service: 1-800-521-3042, fax your order to 1-313-973-1540, or order online through ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text.

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Full-text Theses

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, and can be search institution

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Africa

Australia

Austria

Canada

China

  • Primarily in English, theses submitted for higher degrees to the University of Hong Kong since 1941, including works in arts, humanities, education, the social, medical and natural sciences, many dealing entirely with or focusing on subjects relating to Hong Kong.

France

  • Les sites présentés recensent des thèses de doctorat (et non des mémoires de DEA ou de maîtrise).
  • Thesa [details]
    Signale les thèses en préparation dans les Grands Écoles en France, dans les laboratoires en science de l'ingénieur, en économie et en gestion.
  • "... Enregistre les sujets de thèses de doctorat en préparation dans les universités françaises et les établissements d'enseignement supérieur habilités à délivrer des doctorats dans les disciplines suivantes : Lettres, Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Droit, Science politique, Sciences économiques et de gestion." Pour les thèses soutenues, consultez SUDOC.
  • "... est le catalogue collectif français réalisé par les bibliothèques et centres de documentation de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. Il comprend plus de 9 millions de notices bibliographiques qui décrivent tous les types de documents (livres, thèses, revues, ressources électroniques, documents audiovisuels, microformes, cartes, partitions, manuscrits et livres anciens...). Le catalogue Sudoc décrit également les collections de revues et journaux d'environ 2000 établissements documentaires hors enseignement supérieur (bibliothèques municipales, centres de documentation...)
  • Théo [details]
    "Essai de recensement des travaux universitaires (DES, Maîtrises, DEA, Thèses) intéressant l'histoire du quart nord-ouest de la France (régions Bretagne, Pays-de-Loire, Basse-Normandie, Haute-Normandie, Centre, Poitou-Charentes) déposés et accessibles dans cette aire géographique."
  • Auto-archive of mainly science theses from France.
  • Cyberthèses [details]
    Université Lyon 2

Germany

India

Pakistan

  • Full text of 500+ doctoral theses—all subjects—with aim to include "all Ph.D. theses published by institutions in Pakistan."

Spain

  • TESEO [details]
    "La Base de Datos TESEO, del Consejo de Universidades, recoge y permite recuperar información acerca de las tesis doctorales leídas y consideradas aptas en las Universidades españolas desde 1976."
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