Writing a Thesis
If you are writing a graduate thesis (mémoire or thèse) don't forget to consult the Faculty of Graduate Studies' guide on Dissertation and Thesis Preparation
For further information about theses and dissertations, take a look at the Theses and Dissertations Guide.
Theses and Dissertations
- UBC cIRcleUBC's open access digital repository for published and unpublished material created by the UBC community and it's partners.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowIncludes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
- OAIsterOAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign Dissertation DatabaseSearch 800,000 doctoral dissertations (including those of Albert Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold, and other Nobel laureates) from universities outside the U.S. and Canada. CRL acquired the majority of the collection through deposit from member libraries. CRL continues to acquire about 5,000 titles per year from major universities through demand purchase and deposit.
- ArchimèdeLa collection des mémoires et thèses électroniques de l'Université Laval contient, depuis le 1er juin 2006, tous les mémoires et thèses déposés à la Faculté des études supérieures (FES)
- Center for Research LibrariesCRL holds more than 800,000 doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften from universities outside of the U.S. and Canada. The collection was built by deposits from member libraries and exchange or depository arrangements with almost 100 universities.
- Dart e-PortalDART-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
- Catalogue SUDOC (Système Universitaire de Documentation)The French collective catalogue created by libraries and resource centres in higher education and research. To find dissertations and theses, click Advanced .... Material selection... Dissertations [or in French: Recherche avancée ... Type de publication ... Thèses].
- L'Atelier national de reproduction des thèses (ANRT)The ANRT is a French public organization which has been reproducing and distributing doctoral theses since 1971.