International Dissertations and Theses

"Sponsored by UNESCO and Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes, the Cybertesis program is the result of a project of cooperation between the Université de Montréal, the Université de Lyon2, the University of Chile and 32 universities of Europe, Africa and Latin America. It allows to make simultaneous searches through a single Web interface, and to retrieve more than 50,000 full text theses stored in 27 different servers and university repositories"

Access to 500,000+ open access research theses from 578 Universities in 28 European countries
"We regret to inform you that the DART-Europe E-theses Portal will be closing down permanently on 1 February 2025. We would like to thank all our partners and contributors over many years. Electronic theses can be found in several general open access aggregators and in individual open access repositories."

"The German National Library's collection mandate encompasses all texts, images and sound recordings published in Germany or in the German language, translated from German or relating to Germany that have been issued since 1913....In mid-1998, we started collecting online dissertations, postdoctoral theses and other publications made available on university repositories."

Spanish-language periodical index created by Universidad de Rioja. Covers the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

"DiVA portal is a finding tool and an institutional repository for research publications and student theses written at 37 universities and research institutions."

"Search over 380,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily."
NOTE: British Library’s EThOS, the repository for UK PhD theses, is still unavailable after a serious ransomware attack in late 2023. Although many of the British Library’s online services are now up and running, we do not know when EThOS will be available again. (Work underway to restore in 2025)

"The purpose of HAL Theses is to facilitate the self archiving of thesis manuscripts, which are important documents for direct scientific communication between scientists. TEL is actually a particular "environment" of HAL. It therefore has the same objective: make scientific documents available to scientists all around the world, rapidly and freely, but with a restriction to PHD thesis and habilitations (HDR, in countries where habilitations exist). CCSD does not make any scientific evaluation of the thesis that are submitted, since this is the responsibility of the university professors in the examination board."
CCDS - Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (France)

"If you search by subject, use search terms in Finnish to get the most comprehensive set of results. Use the Finto service to find the Finnish versions of English terms."
As a rule, Melinda contains all of the materials of its participating libraries. The theses, dissertations and electronic material packages included in Melinda have been catalogued by the libraries based on their individual policies and licensing terms.

"NARCIS contains (open access) publications from all Dutch universities, scientific institutes, KNAW and NWO, including open access e-theses from all Dutch universities."

"Open access to scientific peer reviewed publications has evolved from a pilot project with limited scope in FP7 to an underlying principle in the Horizon 2020 funding scheme, obligatory for all H2020 funded projects.
The goal is to make as much European funded research output as possible available to all, via the OpenAIRE portal."

"System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, is your open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate the documents."

"RCAAP constitutes a single entry point for searching, discovery and recall of thousands of scientific and scholarly publications, namely journal articles, conference papers, thesis and dissertations, distributed by several Portuguese repositories."

"TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online) is a digital cooperative repository of doctoral theses presented at some Spanish universities. The consultation of theses is opened and allows the user to construct searches on the complete text of the files by author, advisor, title, keywords, university and department of publication, year of defense, etc."

"Las tesis doctorales constituyen una base fundamental en la ampliación y desarrollo de los conocimientos científicos. La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes ofrece la oportunidad de acoger en su dominio todas aquellas tesis en o sobre lenguas hispánicas defendidas con éxito en cualquier país del mundo."

"All theses defended in France are recorded since 1985."

"Open Repository Theseus - the theses and publications of the Universities of Applied Sciences on the Internet"