Education Research Guide

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

cIRcle: UBC's Digital Repository  University of British Columbia's digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners. Materials in cIRcle are openly accessible to anyone on the web, and will be preserved for future generations.

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.