Digital Dissertations 
Access: On-Site Access Only
Description: Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present. Those published from 1980 to present include abstracts, and many of those published since the 1990's are available in full text (PDF digital format) along with 24 page previews. Full text dissertations may be downloaded to a zip disc or emailed to a user account (but be aware that restrictions on your email account or security precautions at your institution might prevent the document from reaching you after leaving the Library).
Please limit printing from Library of Congress workstations to citations and summaries. Dissertations are also available on microfiche in the Microform Reading Room.
Additional online dissertation sources:
- Abes: Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur : Citations to French dissertations
- Australiasian Digital Theses Program
- British Library citations of theses : provides access to dissertations done at British universities (most doctoral theses from the early 1970s onward), from the United States (475,000 doctoral theses), and from Canada (several hundred doctoral theses from 1980 forward).
- Canadian Dissertations
- CRL - Foreign Doctoral Dissertations
- Cybertheses : allows access to citations of French dissertations from 1972 to the present.
- Digital Library of MIT Theses
- Digital Library and Archives : allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog
- PhdData: The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress
- Russian State Library Dissertations
- TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network : provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers.
List of LC holdings for other editions of Digital Dissertations.
Coverage: 1861-present
Subject(s)
Applied Sciences, Engineering & Technology
Bibliographic Tools
Biology, Genetics & Life Sciences
Cataloging Resources
European Studies
Humanities
Military Science & National Security
Multidisciplinary
Science & Technology
Social Sciences
Subscription Database List
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Digital National Security Archive
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Index to Theses
Related Links
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
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