Finding McGill theses
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.
Many, but not all, of the theses available in eScholarship@McGill, may be found in the McGill Theses subcatalogue in the Library catalogue.
The full text of most McGill theses may be accessed online through ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text.
Print copies of McGill theses
In order to find any McGill thesis in print, search the McGill Theses subcatalogue in the Library catalogue.
Duplicate copies of McGill theses are available for consultation only at the Rare Book Division Theses Collection, McLennan Library Building, 4th floor.
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
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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.
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Database of commercially published theses.
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Listing of over 21,000 dissertations completed or in progress at 189 academic departments in Canada and the United States. Includes McGill University.
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Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the U.K. Theses completed, 1995- . Updated annually.
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Links to databases listing the theses of Algeria, Austria, India, Portugal, Turkey.
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Database of over 7,800 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. Titles may be ordered online.
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Doctoral dissertations in Musicology-Online.
- Music Theory Online Dissertation Index
- Dissertationsmeldestelle der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
Full-text Theses
France
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Les sites présentés recensent des thèses de doctorat (et non des mémoires de DEA ou de maîtrise).
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Signale les thèses en préparation dans les Grands Écoles en France, dans les laboratoires en science de l'ingénieur, en économie et en gestion.
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"... 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.
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"... 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...)
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"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."
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Auto-archive of mainly science theses from France.
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Germany
Africa
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Links to lists of theses from African universities and theses about Africa from non-African universities.
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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.
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Over 2000 multidisciplinary mainly English language theses.
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Over 2000 multidisciplinary theses in Afrikaans or English. Est. 2000.
Australia
Austria
McGill Theses
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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.
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Search for McGill theses in this thesis subset of McGill's online full catalogue, containing records for many—but not all—McGill theses. Or search using any word (keyword) for "McGill" and "thesis",
e.g. "mcgill and thesis and economics" in the
full catalogue. There is a copy of many McGill theses which can be borrowed, in McLennan stacks (call number AS42 M3 on M2). The copy available in the Rare Books Division (McLennan M4) is stored in a remote location and may be retrieved—for consultation only— at
10:30 AM or 2:30 PM, Monday to Friday.
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) available in several McGill branch libraries.
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McGill e-theses from 2 pilot projects: 1999 (4), 2000 (1), 2001 (2), 2004 (24) and 2005 (1) and voluntary electronic submissions from 2007— . Also full text of research articles, working papers, conference papers, books and research reports by McGill faculty and students.
Canada
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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.
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"Will display theses beginning in 1987. ... If available, a link to a Thesis Summary (Lay Abstract) will be displayed on the search results page."
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Canadian Historical Association database.
United States
United Kingdom
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Lists theses dating from 1716 to date.
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Search for bibliographic records of UK Social Anthropology theses in the CSAK (Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing) UK Theses database. Ad hoc updates by individual thesis writers. Submissions of full text theses are solicited.
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Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the U.K. Theses completed, 1995- . Updated annually.
China
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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.
India
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Over 200 applied and pure sciences and engineering theses in English.
Pakistan
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Full text of 500+ doctoral theses—all subjects—with aim to include "all Ph.D. theses published by institutions in Pakistan."
Spain
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"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."