Theses from Other Universities

You can find theses and dissertations from other universities in a number of ways.

Finding a known thesis

Look at the university library's website to find their institutional repository. Many university libraries upload new theses and dissertations in electronic form to their repository, and have retroactively digitized print theses.

If the thesis is only available in print, you may contact the library to see if they will digitize the thesis as part of their project. Alternatively, you may request a print thesis through Interlibrary Loan.

Discover relevant theses

Use online collections and bibliographic databases to discover relevant theses and dissertations. The following resources are some of the more common full-text or bibliographic record databases for theses and dissertations.

Global

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (restricted to current UWindsor faculty, students and staff)
  One of the largest online collections of full-text dissertations and theses, providing theses from various universities across the globe from 1861 to the present.
   
• Global ETD Search by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
  Search for bibliographic records of theses and dissertations across the world.

Regional

• Theses Canada
  Access to theses and dissertations from Canadian institutions.
   
• Thèses.fr
  A databases of bibliographic records of theses and dissertations from France.
   
• Australasian Digital Theses Program
  This site provides both citation and full-text access to a few thousand theses and dissertations published in Australia.
   
• The British Library Theses Service & Electronic Thesis Online Service
  The British Library provides access to citations of theses from British universities (most doctoral theses from the early 1970s onward), from the United States (475,000 doctoral theses), and from Canada (several hundred doctoral theses from 1980 forward).
   
• Center for Research Libraries - Dissertations Scope Search
  Twenty thousand doctoral dissertations from outside of the United States and Canada are searchable from this site.

Subject-based

• Directory of History Dissertations
  This directory provides descriptions of dissertations authored by history departments across Canada and the United States. 
   
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
  This is an international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 12,000 records. Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present.
   
• OregonPDF in Health and Performance (restricted to current UWindsor faculty, students and staff)
  Theses and dissertations published in the areas of health and performance.