LibGuides: Finding Thesis: Theses Worldwide

Theses available on Internet

The full-text of theses from many academic institutions are available free online.

But note that not all full texts are available for download.

E-thesis- Electronic Publications at the University of Helsinki : Faculty of Medicine
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
North Carolina State University : Search Available ETDs
OhioLINK ETD Center
Pennsylvania State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archives
Vanderbilt University : Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library Project
Trove (Australia) - Use advanced search and restrict to "Theses"
NZresearch.org.nz (New Zealand)
DART-Europe E-theses Portal (Europe)
Dissertations Online (Germany and Switzerland)
Japanese Institutional Repositories Online Also see this
NARCIS (Netherlands)

Theses Databases (worldwide)

PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS & THESES GLOBAL
Offers more than 1.7 million full-text dissertations in the humanities, social sciences, technology and more. Full-text available.
Theses Canada Portal
Theses Canada is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 universities accredited by Universities Canada.
中文电子学位论文服务 = Chinese Electronic Theses & Dissertations Service (CETD)
More than 80,000 doctoral dissertations and master theses from colleges and universities all over the China mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Some full-text dissertations are free to download. Open access.
British Library Shared Research Repository
This UK research repository indexes research output of the major cultural and heritage organisations. Among then, the metadata of UK’s doctoral research theses is available for download. To locate doctorate dissertations, search for "dissertation", and then use the filter to drill down the results.
Theses@HKU
University of Hong Kong' s printed and ETDs (Electronic Theses & Dissertations) are on open access in the Scholars Hub under the licensing of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 = National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan (NDLTD)
Open access to abstracts, in both Chinese and English, of academic dissertations and theses approved by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan since 1956.
WorldCatDissertations (OCLC)
database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many of these are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.