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PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses
relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format.
The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access.
Open Access Publishing
is a new service offered by ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing, and
we expect to have many more open access dissertations and theses over
time.
In addition to open access dissertations and theses, more are available from ProQuest. Using
ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses,
you can find many other dissertations and theses for your research
needs. Check with your library — many libraries subscribe to ProQuest
Dissertations & Theses and make it available to you free of charge.
If you're looking for a specific dissertation or thesis and don't have access to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, try
Dissertation Express to order a copy.
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EThOS
The aim of
EThOS is:
- To offer a 'single point of access' where researchers the
world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education
- To support Higher Education Institutions through the
transition from print to e-theses
- To help UK Higher Education Institutions expand available
content by digitising paper theses
- To demonstrate the quality of UK research and help attract
students and research investment into UK HE
To achieve this, EThOS offers a coherent and consistent interface by
implementing a central 'hub' comprising an e-store and a digitisation
suite at The British Library site in Boston Spa, Yorkshire. The hub
automatically harvests e-theses from Institutional Repositories and
digitises paper theses from participating institutions to offer the
single point of access..
Many UK institutions support Open Access to their theses, so
download of their digital and digitised theses is free to the
researcher. A small number of participating institutions may not be
able to offer Open Access and in this case the researcher may have to
pay for the digitisation.
Where a thesis must be digitised before supply, you can
expect a short delay. However, you will be informed when the thesis
is ready for collection and you can then log on to the system and
download it.
EThOS can only offer the theses of participating
institutions. While we expect a large number of institutions to take
part, we cannot supply from an institutions which chooses not to. In
this case, you should approach the institution's library directly to
gain access to a thesis.
View a list of participating institutions
Get the latest news on EThOS
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DART-Europe
DART-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 (NDLTD).
The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European
Portal
for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and
they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses
developments. DART-Europe offers partners a European networking forum
on ETD issues, and may provide the opportunity to submit collaborative
funding applications to achieve DART-Europe's vision for ETDs.
DART-Europe is resourced through partner contributions.
Partners support the following principles:
- DART-Europe will encourage the creation, discovery and use of European e-theses, and will maintain a central Portal for e-thesis aggregation and access.
- European libraries and consortia are invited to contribute metadata to the DART-Europe Portal. Contributors will determine the terms and conditions under which their metadata are contributed.
- DART-Europe welcomes the contribution by partners of resources
to support the management, discovery, usability and preservation of
e-theses, and to further the aims and objectives of DART-Europe.
- Partners will designate one representative to act as a contact
for DART-Europe, and will nominate at least one representative to
participate in the DART-Europe email lists.
- DART-Europe welcomes offers from partners to host DART-Europe Project Board meetings, as occasion demands.
- Partners will help to secure DART-Europe's status as an
international network of excellence in information, expertise and
resources relating to ETDs.
- DART-Europe will be administered by UCL
(University College London) and governed by a Board consisting of
representatives of partner organisations. The constitution and Terms of
Reference of the governing Board will be determined and from time to
time reviewed by the Board.
