Online thesis collections

NATIONAL

1) TDX (Online Doctoral Theses): This is a cooperative repository of doctoral theses, in digital format, read at universities in Catalonia and other Spanish regions. It can be used to view the full text of theses online, as well as to search remotely by author, advisor, title, subject matter, university and department where the thesis was read, year defended, etc. This repository is managed by the Consortium of Catalan University Libraries (CBUC) and the Supercomputing Centre of Catalonia (CESCA) and is sponsored by the Catalan government.

2) TESEO: This doctoral thesis database, TDX's counterpart at the Spain-wide level, is run by the Spanish Ministry of Education and includes theses read and successfully defended at Spanish universities since 1976. It allows searches by author, university, department, advisor, academic year, subject matter and abstract. It includes the bibliographic description and abstract, i.e., the full reference for each thesis.

3) DIALNET: A portal for disseminating Spanish research. In addition to offering access to scientific journals, it is also a doctoral thesis database with theses from Spain's almost 40 universities (including those included in the TDX). It allows searches by author, title and subject area. It includes a description and access to the full text.

4) Institutional repositories: Universities have embraced the creation of systems that enable the open-access (OA) dissemination of their scientific and academic work, including doctoral theses and other academic materials. At the UOC, this initiative has taken the form of the institutional repository O2 (or "the Oberta in Open Access"). The O2 can be used to find theses read at the UOC as part of the Information and Knowledge Society doctoral programme, as well as a selection of research papers (RPs), practical activities and final projects (FPs) by students who have successfully completed the relevant subjects given in the University's different fields of study.

INTERNATIONAL

1) DART-Europe E-theses portal: A project offering access to European doctoral theses. It is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia, including the Consortium of Catalan University Libraries (CBUC), of which the UOC Library: is a member.

2) Cybertesis – Online digital theses: A database run by the University of Chile offering full-text access to doctoral theses from universities from around the world. It allows you to search by author, title, abstract or keyword. There are also quick searches by university, year and country. It includes a bibliographic description and, usually, access to the full text.

3) NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: A database offering free full-text access to dissertations, final projects and theses from over 80 schools around the world.

4) MIT Thesis Collection Online: A database of science and technology theses dating back to 1888 selected by the MIT library service. It allows you to search by keyword of the title, author or abstract, in alphabetical order by author or by year. Only the first 87 pages of a document and the bibliographic reference can be viewed free of charge.

5) ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database (PQDT): Commercial database offering access to over 2 million international dissertations and theses dating back to 1861. It is a comprehensive collection, including theses read in the last two years at universities from around the world, with special emphasis on the United States and Canada. It can be accessed through the UOC Library: and allows you to search the entire database or only those documents for which the full text is available. All records and bibliographic citations are linked to the UOC Library:'s e-journal search engine.

6) Redial – European theses on Latin America: Database of Latin American studies doctoral theses read at European universities. It includes bibliographic references for theses dating back to 1980 and allows searches by fields such as ethnicity or people cited, as well as more traditional categories such as author and title. It is a joint project between the European Network of Information and Documentation on Latin America (REDIAL) and the Centre for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC).

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