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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

McGill Theses subcatalogue
Search for McGill theses in this thesis subset of McGill's online full catalogue, containing records for many—but not all—McGill theses. There is a copy of many McGill theses which can be borrowed, in McLennan stacks (call number AS42 M3 on M2).
Library catalogue
Duplicate copies of McGill theses are available for consultation only at the Rare Book Division Theses Collection, located in the McLennan Library Building, 4th floor.
Note: Many early McGill theses are not listed in the catalogue but instead may be found listed in the publication McGill University Thesis Directory (1881-1973)

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.

Index and Abstracting Tools

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text [details]

1861- . Full-text of all theses from Québec universities McGill University, Concordia University, Université de Montréal, École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, and Université Laval; full text (1997- ; some 1996) or first 24 pages or abstracts for other theses (1980- )from other North American graduate schools and European universities. Some earlier dissertations may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan or directly from Dissertation Express. For ProQuest (UMI) pricing, see Ordering.
Foreign Doctoral Dissertations, Center for Research Libraries (CRL) [details]

This database is no longer updated(2012). Records for this collection of nearly 800 ,000 doctoral dissertations from universities outside US and Canada are held by the Center for Research Libraries are now available in OCLC WorldCat and ProQuest Dissertations (see above link) databases. McGill students may borrow these items through Interlibrary Loan. Special subsets of this dissertation catalogue are available through: Nobel Laureate Dissertation Database and Notable Scholars Dissertation Database.
Dissertation.com [details]

Database of commercially published theses.
American Historical Association Directory of History Dissertations [details]

Listing of over 21,000 dissertations completed or in progress at 189 academic departments in Canada and the United States. Includes McGill University.
History On-line [details]

Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the U.K. Theses completed, 1995- . Updated annually.
Répertoire des thèses étrangères (Les signets de la Bibliothèque nationale de France) [details]

Links to databases listing the theses of Algeria, Austria, India, Portugal, Turkey.
Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) [details]

Database of over 7,800 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. Titles may be ordered online.
DDM-Online [details]

Doctoral dissertations in Musicology-Online.
Music Theory Online Dissertation Index
Dissertationsmeldestelle der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung

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

UNESCO Guide to Electronic Theses & Dissertations [details]

Links to projects worldwide.
Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR [details]

Search for online full-text theses from institutions worldwide.

Find a thesis by country: A-Z

Africa

Africa South of the Sahara: Dissertations and Theses [details]

Links to lists of theses from African universities and theses about Africa from non-African universities.
DATAD (Database of African Theses and Dissertations) [details]

Maintained by the Association of African Universities. Citations and abstracts for theses and dissertations completed in 10 participating African universities. Registration and login required to access brief citations. To search the entire database, institutional subscription is required.
University of Johannesburg: UJDigiSpace - Theses and Dissertations [details]

Over 2000 multidisciplinary mainly English language theses.
University of Pretoria Electronic Theses and Dissertations [details]

Over 2000 multidisciplinary theses in Afrikaans or English. Est. 2000.

Australia

Australasian Digital Theses Program
Australian Dissertations on Asia, 1999-2002
Education Research Theses (ERT) [details]

Bibliographic citations and abstracts of doctoral and masters research theses accepted by Australian Universities in the field of education.

Austria

Österreichische Dissertationsdatenbank

Canada

Theses Canada Portal [details]

Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, established 1965; access for free full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations published 1998 to August 31, 2002; find information on how to find a thesis, how Canadian theses program works, information on copyright, etc.
Concordia University School of Graduate Studies Thesis Search [details]

Will display theses beginning in 1987. If available, a link to a Thesis Summary (Lay Abstract) will be displayed on the search results page.
CHA On-line Register of Post-Graduate Dissertations in Progress in History and Related Subjects [details]

Canadian Historical Association database.

China

Hong Kong University Theses Online [details]

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 Signets de la Bibliothèque nationale de France—Thèses [details]

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.
Fichier central des thèses (France) [details]

"... 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.
SUDOC: Système Universitaire de Documentation (France) [details]

"... 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."
CCSD: Thèses-EN-ligne [details]

Auto-archive of mainly science theses from France.
Cyberthèses [details]

Université Lyon 2

Germany

Diplome.de: Diplomarbeiten Agentur für Vermarktung und Verkauf von Diplomarbeiten, Magisterarbeiten und anderen Hochschulstudien
Dissonline.de [details]

Digitale dissertationen im Internet.
Diplomarbeiten - Online

India

Theses and Dissertations of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore [details]

Over 200 applied and pure sciences and engineering theses in English.

Pakistan

Pakistan Research Repository [details]

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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