For more help with finding dissertations at the University of Illinois, see our Dissertations Research Guide.
Contains citations and abstracts for doctoral dissertations from American and Canadian universities, with some coverage of European universities. Masters theses have been selectively indexed since 1962. Citations to dissertations are available from 1861 to the present, and abstracts are included from 1980 to the present. For dissertations completed at most major universities since 1997 (and sometimes earlier), you should have the option to download a PDF full-text version of the dissertation--look for the "Free Download" link.
This e-book offers guidance for every stage in the creation of honors and master's theses and Ph.D dissertations, including developing the proposal, committee selection, writing the manuscript and preparing the defense.
IDEALS
IDEALS is the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship and is the
University's open repository of scholarly content. As of 2009, graduate students have the
option of depositing their dissertations and theses to IDEALS to make them freely available
online.
Index to Theses
Search a comprehensive list of theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great
Britain and Ireland since 1716. Includes records for over 490,000 theses, with 44,000 abstracts
added in PDF format for the period 1970 to 1986. From 1986 onwards,almost all entries include
abstracts.
The Library of Congress has compiled an annotated list of theses and dissertations databases from around the world. Coverage includes the Theses Canada Portal, where you can search for theses and dissertations in the National Library of Canada.
Networked Digital Library Theses and Dissertations is a collection of over 200,000 theses and dissertations from around the world. Many items, including those dating back to the early 1900s, are available in full text for free.
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