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A lot of dissertations available online show up in a GoogleScholar search. Try searching the title of the dissertation in quotes for the best results.

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Find Dissertations and Theses in these Open Access Databases

DART Europe
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
Digital Commons Network
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
EBSCO Open Dissertations
OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to collect and provide access to dissertations.
EthOS
Dissertations collected by the National British Library. Search here for dissertations from around the UK.
Global EDT Search
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Search here for dissertations from outside of the United States.
OAIster
"OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources. This catalog was built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)."
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
"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 5,218,230 theses and dissertations."
PQDT Open
With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. This is a ProQuest product.
Theses Canada
National Library of Canada's harvested collection of dissertations and theses. Search here for dissertations from Canadian Universities.
Trove Australia
National Library of Australia catalog. Search here for Australian dissertations.

Find Scholarship through Specific University Systems or State Repositories

DASH from Harvard University
Harvard University's digital repository of scholarship
Duke University DukeSpace
Theses, dissertations, and other scholarly content from Duke University
Iowa Research Online Dissertations and Theses
University of Iowa's catalog search for their dissertations and theses
MINDS@UW
University of Wisconsin's digital repository
Northeastern University Repository
Northeastern University's theses and dissertations from 2008-present
OhioLink Electronic Theses & Dissertations
The ETD Center is a free, online database of Ohio's undergraduate, masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted. (OhioLINK is similar to Minitex in scope)
Open Access Publications from the University of California
Search here for dissertations published by UC schools (e.g., UC Berkley)
University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy
University of Minnesota's open access articles, university documents, dissertations, data sets & more

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This content created by Colleen Deel, MLIS