English: Dissertations & Theses

Includes the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities in North America and from around the globe. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Dissertations & Theses offers UCSB users access to UC dissertations in full-text digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.

Full-text access to PDFs of dissertations and theses. The authors have opted for open access publishing through the ProQuest Open Access Publishing PLUS program.
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An index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

CRL is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries that supports original research by preserving and making available to scholars rare and uncommon primary source materials from all world regions. The collections are available to member institutions, including the UCSB Library. From the home page click the Dissertations tab.

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia that provides access to to 828,730 open access research theses from 28 European countries.

The British Library's database of digitized theses from UK higher education institutions. Free registration and login is required.