How to find theses and dissertations
The theses and dissertation databases below have been grouped by subject and geography.
To extend your search for theses and dissertations beyond those given on this page, refer to UBC Library's Research Theses & Dissertations Research Guide.
Music Specific
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology On-line This link opens in a new windowFor more than forty years, the American Musicological Society has sponsored the publication of listings of dissertations in the field of musicology.
UBC Specific
Electronic theses are available in cIRcle: UBC's Information Repository.
1. Use the search bar as shown below.
2. To limit your search to a specific subject, select one from the left side bar and refine your search by selecting subject-terms from the drop-down list such as music performance, musical pitch, etc.
National
- Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new windowElectronic theses and dissertations are harvested monthly from Canadian universities. There is a four-year contractual time lag for adding fulltext theses & dissertations that have been digitized by ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Fulltext theses & dissertations are currently available for 1998-2005 plus harvested EDTs from universities.
International
- Directory of Latin American and Caribbean Music Theses and DissertationsLatin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana vol. 20, No. 2 (Autumn - Winter, 1999): pp. 253-309.
- OpenDOAROpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Use the "Search repository contents" link to search all registered repositories.
- 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.
- Register of Dissertations and Theses on Music in Britain and Ireland: SupplementRoyal Musical Association Research Chronicle, Volume 27, 1994, pp. 101 - 119.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - Full Text This link opens in a new windowRILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text provides researchers with immediate access to a global, multidimensional full-text collection of scholarly music research.
UBC Theses & Dissertations Style Guide & Tools
Templates and FAQs from the UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies website.