A Guide to Theses Listings
General Sources 
British Theses
Austria
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
France
Germany
Italy
Mexico Netherlands Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United States
General Sources
- CyberTesis
- DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP)
- Dissertation.com
- Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations Published by UNESCO
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
- Open Thesis
- Walford's guide to reference material. Vol 3. p. 181-188 'Theses and dissertations', lists sources of information on theses.
British Theses
- For the years 1716- titles are listed online in the Index to Theses (available online only within the University Library.) The Library also has print copies up to vol.54 (2005/6) of the AsLib Index to theses accepted for higher degrees in the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the CNAA
- Theses awarded before 1950 are also listed in Bilboul, P.R. and Kent, F.L. eds. Retrospective Index to theses of Great Britain and Ireland 1716-1950
- There is a separate guide for University of London Theses.
Theses of Other Countries
Abstracts of some European theses, and some from other countries are published in Dissertations and Theses online. Going back to1861, this is a computer searchable database available offsite for authorised users.
Austria
Australia
- Australasian Digital Theses Program
- Union list of higher degree theses in Australian university libraries: cumulative edition to 1965.
Supplemented by Union list of higher degree theses in Australian university libraries: supplement, 1966-1968. For further supplements up to 1991 contact the Rhodes House Library, University of Oxford, Admissions: 01865-277105.
Brazil
Canada
(See also United States)
- The National Library of Canada has an online catalogue through which is possible to search for theses using the ‘Advanced Search’ option. This service is available at AMICUS Web
- Canadian Theses / Thèses canadiennes. Ottowa: National Library of Canada.
For 1994/95 onwards see the the British Library Document Supply Service Customer Services: 01937-546060 or dsc-customer-services@bl.uk - Canadian graduate theses 1919-1967: an annotated bibliography. Ontario: Industrial Relations Centre, .
Chile
France
- SUDOC (Use Options to limit the catalogue search to dissertations)
- Cyberthèses
- A CD-ROM, DocThèses, is published containing more than 300,000 French theses covering all disciplines since 1972 (in health sciences, since 1983). The database is searchable by author, keyword including title and summary keyword, subject, field of study, institution, year and research director. It also includes a list of the libraries which hold the theses with practical information needed to obtain copies.
Location: Cambridge University Library, Admissions: 01223-333084 or admissions@lib.cam.ac.uk - Inventaire des thèses de doctorat soutenues devant les universités françaises. 1981-. Paris: Centre national du catalogue collectif national. Continues Catalogue des thèses de doctorat soutenues devant les universités françaises. 1960-1977/80. Paris: Cercle de la librairie. Continues Catalogue des thèses et écrits académiques. 1884-1959. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie. [Location: Stack Service MxS 378.44 (1930-58); Depository store (1884-1929)]
- Maire, Albert. Répertoire alphabétique des thèses de Doctorat ès Lettres des Universités françaises, 1810-1900.
Germany
- Die Deutsche Bibliothek This is the joint catalogue of the Deutsche Bibliothek at Frankfurt and the Deutsche Bücherei at Leipzig (does not include the holdings of the Deutsches Musikarchiv in Berlin). See also Dissertations Online.
- TheO, Theses Online Digital dissertations from several universities.
- A) Post Re-Unification, 1991-
Deutsche Nationalbibliographie: und Bibliographie der im Ausland erschienenen deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen. Reihe H. Hochschulschriften. 1991-. Note: A searchable subseries of the German national bibliography on CD-ROM. - B) Federal Republic of Germany, 1972-1990
Deutsche Bibliographie: Reihe H, Hochschulschriftenverzeichnis. 1972-1990. Frankfurt: Buchhändler-Vereinigung. Note: A subseries of the West German national bibliography solely for theses and dissertations. - C) German Democratic Republic, 1968-1990
Deutsche Nationalbibliographie: und Bibliographie des im Ausland erschienenen deutschsprachigen Schrifttums. Reihe C, Dissertationen und Habilitationsschriften. 1968-1990. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut. Note: A subseries of the East German national bibliography solely for theses and dissertations. - D) Pre-Partition Germany, 1885/6-1987
Jahresverzeichnis der Hochschulschriften der DDR, der BRD und Westberlins. Vol.86(1970) - Vol.103(1987). Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut.
Jahresverzeichnis der deutschen Hochschulschriften. Vol. 55 -Vol. 85 , 1939-1969
Jahresverzeichnis der and den deutschen Universitäten und Hochschulen erschienenen Schriften. 1885-1938 (Vol. 1-54). Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut.
Italy
- Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze The Italian National Library searches may be limited to theses ( Tipo materiale: Tesi di dottorato)
Mexico
Netherlands
- DAREnet doctoral e-theses from Dutch universities
Portugal
- Dissertaes de Doutoramento na Universidade de Coimbra
- Dissertaes e Teses Digitais (DiTeD)
- Teses sobre temas relacionados com Histria da Cincia, realizadas em Universidades Portuguesas, desde 1990
Spain
- Catlogo de tesis doctorales catalanas
- Database of Spanish Doctoral Theses
- Dialnet Theses
- Spanish Theses
Sweden
Switzerland
Theses of the United States and Canada
- Dissertations and Theses online Going back to1861, this is a computer searchable database available offsite for authorised users.
- ProQuest Digital Dissertations lists recent dissertations over the internet, and theses may be ordered from Dissertation Express; however the full details of the abstracts are searchable only through Dissertations and Theses online.
- Some theses are being made available on an open access basis on the PQDT Open website.
- 24 page previews of dissertations and theses published after 1996 may be browsed under the name of the submitting Institution, on the UMI Current Research site.
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
- Abstracts of masters' theses available on microfilm are published in Masters Abstracts.
Subject Bibliographies of theses
The lists of theses described above all have subject indexes. There are also many lists of theses for specific subject fields, both current and retrospective. Some are listed in Reynolds, M.M. Guide to theses and dissertations: an international bibliography of bibliographies. In general theses bibliographies have been classified with the bibliographies of the subject, and may be found with the subject or in the Information Centre.
- Art History: Forschungsdatenbank
- Central Asian Studies: Dissertations in Central Asian Studies
- Germanic Studies: Research in Germanic Studies
- History: History Online
- Teses sobre temas relacionados com História da Ciência, realizadas em Universidades Portuguesas, desde 1990
- Humanities: Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the Humanities
- Latin American Studies: Base de datos REDIAL-TESIS, Theses related to Haiti . Theses and Dissertations on SALALM
- Music: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
