Links to E-theses for Researchers
Below is a collection of some e-theses sites and institutional repositories. Other types of open access academic work can also be found such as working papers, research reports, case studies and datasets. Please bear in mind that, in general, e-theses sites below mainly consist of PhD level. Finding masters level dissertations may require further search/filtering depending on the source.

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- EThOS
British Library’s electronic access to theses in the UK.
- Dart-Europe
A single European Portal for finding Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
- NTLTD
Network Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations world wide
- Dissertations.se
Find doctoral theses from Sweden, written in English.
- OAIster
Enter your search term/s; narrow down by selecting Thesis/Dissertation on the left hand side.
- Theses Canada
Allows a full text search for a large number of Canadian theses and dissertations online.
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| Search the content of institutional repositories (including e-theses) |
- UK Institutional Repository Search
Use this database to cross search over 100 UK academic repositories storing research information.
- OpenDOAR
Use this database to search academic repositories storing research world wide.
- ROAR
This is a world wide registry of repositories. It mainly contains a registry of US and some Asian & European repositories of theses as well as other research.
- Base
A search engine to find academic open access web resources including theses
- Diva
Contains research publications and student theses including masters level from 28 Swedish universities.
- Trove
Use the Advanced Search facility to find theses from the National Library of Australia.
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| Digital archives |
- Archives Hub
Provides a gateway to historical archives in the UK.
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