Dissertations/Theses 

Dissertations and Theses: Full Text

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•  2.4 million searchable citations
• Citations available from 1637
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• Coverage: 1861 to the present day

World-wide

• Cyberthesis - Full text theses from a number of different countries of French speaking origin
• Dissertations and Theses: Full Text - info
• DRIVER - Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
• Google Scholar - info
• Multidisciplinary Theses Server - mostly French, but some world
• National Library Catalogues Worldwide
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - mostly US, but some world
• OAIster - a collection of free academically-oriented digital resources
• WorldCat - info

Australia

• ADT - Australasian Digital Thesis

Canada

• Thesis Canada Portal - catalog for all the Canadian theses in collection and has free online full-text electronic theses covering the period from 1998 to 2002; others can be purchased

France

• Multidisciplinary Theses Server
• PASTEL - Parisian engineering theses
• Catalogue Collectif de France
• SUDOC

Germany

• DissOnline.de: Digitale Dissertationen im Internet

Scandinavia

• DiVA - Theses and research publications from Scandinavian countries.

United Kingdom

• British Library Public Catalogue
• EThOS - Electronic Theses Online Service

• MIT does not purchase (and rarely adds to the collection) theses or dissertations from other institutions.
• Individuals must purchase Non-MIT theses.
• If a thesis is not available for purchase, InterLibrary Borrowing will try to borrow it for you.
•  If a thesis is available through MIT's subscription to Proquest Dissertations and Theses or for purchase from any other document providers (such as those listed above in the Find section), it cannot be borrowed through  InterLibrary Borrowing.

Georgiana McReynolds
Reference and Information Services Coordinator, Humanities Library
gmac@mit.edu

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