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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 7,237,430 theses and dissertations.
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- Proquest Theses and Dissertations (PQDT), a database of dissertations and theses, whether they were published electronically or in print, and mostly available for purchase. Access to PQDT may be limited; consult your local library for access information.
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EBSCO Open Dissertations
EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable.
Increasing Discovery & Usage of ETD Research
With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. Our goal is to help make their students’ theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible.
EBSCO Open Dissertations extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.
How Does EBSCO Open Dissertations Work?
Libraries can add theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to their institutional repository. ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to the institution's IR.
EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .
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Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
OATD.org provides 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 6,654,285 theses and dissertations.
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Global ETD Search
Search the 6,508,479 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive:
The archive supports advanced filtering and boolean search.
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”visualisation” | where the subject includes the word “visualisation" |
”computers” | where the title includes the word "computer" |
”Hussein, Suleman” | where the creator (author) is “Hussein, Suleman” |
”water rates” | where the description includes “water rates” |
"McGill University" | where the publisher is “McGill University” |
”english” | where the language is “english” |
apples bananas | that contain both "apples" and "bananas" |
apples bananas | that contain "apples" and do not contain "bananas" |
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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 7,233,907 theses and dissertations. About OATD (our FAQ). Visual OATD.org
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses provides researchers with unmatched search and reference link functionality that delivers results from across the globe.
EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable.
OATD.org provides 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 6,654,285 theses and dissertations.
Database of free, open access full-text graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Search the 6,507,288 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive: advanced search tips how to contribute records.