Online resources: how to find an open-access thesis?

There are many portals giving access to thesis, whether French, European or international. When the full text is not available online, it is possible to consult a summary and my premium essay. Here is a selection.

International thesis:

The Open Dissertation and Thesis portal provides access to more than 5 million theses from 1100 universities or research centers.

The Networked digital Libraries Theses and Dissertations host mainly American and Canadian theses, but there are also partnerships with foreign and European universities (including Dart Europe). In all, more than 6 million theses are listed there.

French thesis:

The Theses.fr national portal lists all theses, defended or in preparation, in French universities and validated by the jury. This is the official MESRI portal. Depending on the policy of the defending university, and the authorization of the author, the thesis may or may not be offered in full text: a filter allows you to refine your search to obtain only accessible theses. The search can be done by the title, keywords, author, thesis director, university of defence (eg Paris 4 or Sorbonne University), doctoral school, discipline, date…

The TEL portal (Thèses en ligne) is a national open archive managed by the CNRS where theses are deposited – in principle with full access – by the authors themselves and under their responsibility. Unlike Theses.fr, it is not necessarily the official defence version: the two portals are therefore complementary. The search is possible by title, author, keywords, discipline, date or “collection” (set of repositories managed by a laboratory, an ED or a university). Note, there is also HDR and essay writer service.

European thesis:

The Dart Europe E-theses portal hosts 829,000 “open access” theses defended in one of the 620 universities located in 28 European countries. The search can be done by the author, title or by “browsing” by university, date or “collection” (open archives of European research units or centers)

Dialnet is a specialized portal for access to journals, conference proceedings and also theses in the Hispanic language (118,333 in open access). The search can be done in French or in Spanish.

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