International Education

This section of the guide gives instruction on how to find theses. 
For help writing theses, please visit UBC Research Commons: Thesis/Dissertation Essentials 

For a complete listing, go to the Theses and Dissertations research guide

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Theses Canada
Your central access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program.

• Proquest Dissertations & Theses
  Contains over 2 million records of Doctoral dissertations and masters theses.
• British Library Ethos: Electronic Theses Online
  Opening access to UK theses.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
  A catalog that contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations.
• ADT (Australasian Digital Theses Program)
  A search portal that provides searching, browsing, and access to electronic theses and dissertations produced in Australia.
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal
  A discovery service for open access research theses awarded by European universities.
• Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD)
   A significant proportion of Africa’s research activity.
• EBSCO Open Dissertations 
  Use the free database to search more than 670,000 electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from more than 25 universities worldwide.
• National ETD Portal (South Africa)
  This search portal provides access to electronic theses and dissertations produced in South Africa.
• Worldcat
  Includes records from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. An important discovery and verification tool.