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Theses and Dissertations: International

A Guide on how to find and access Thesis and Dissertations online

PDQT open

Searchable database of thesis. PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.

Locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline and view the complete text in PDF format.

Trove: Australia and New Zealand theses database

National Library of Australia database (also includes New Zealand). Click on link below to access.

Instructions on how to find theses:

  1. Go to the homepage of Trove, type in your search terms and hit search.
  2. Select the Books zone.
  3. Choose the 'theses' facet on the left-hand side
  4. Change the 'Sort by' option to Date (latest first) to view the most recently published theses.

Open Theses

OATD.org 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 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 5 million theses and dissertations.

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Libraries and Archives Canada

Theses Canada is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 universities accredited by Universities Canada, which provide free access to Canadian electronic theses and dissertations in the collection