{"id":730,"date":"2012-11-12T14:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2012-11-12T14:21:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:21:25","slug":"top-ten-tips-for-finding-theses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/11\/12\/top-ten-tips-for-finding-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"Top ten tips for finding theses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Postgraduate students often ask me about how to find theses. Unfortunately there’s no single source for information on all theses worldwide.<\/p>\n

However here are a few tips that might help …
\n1. All Divinity theses and post 1984 other University of Edinburgh theses are now catalogued onto the online catalogue. See my earlier blog post<\/a> for tips on searching for New College theses …<\/p>\n

2. Older University of Edinburgh theses are listed in sheaf-binder indexes, which are held in the CRC<\/abbr> Research Suite – see the useful CRC Guide to Theses<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Remember that most University of Edinburgh printed theses are kept as archival copies and can only be read in the Library.<\/p>\n

4. The Edinburgh Research Archive<\/a> (ERA) has full text online versions of all Edinburgh University theses submitted from 2005.<\/p>\n

5. Go to the Theses subject guide <\/a>on the University of Edinburgh Library website to find a gateway to information sources from universities worldwide\u00a0 – such as …<\/p>\n

6. [University of Edinburgh restricted] … The Index to Theses database<\/strong> <\/em>finds details of UK & Ireland theses from 1715- present (no full text)<\/p>\n

7. [University of Edinburgh restricted] The Dissertations and Theses <\/strong><\/em>database from ProQuest finds details of primarily US & Canada theses. Currently the\u00a0University of Edinburgh has not subscribed to the full text option, but if you want the full text you could apply for an inter-library loan.<\/p>\n

8. New<\/span> to me is the Networked Library of Theses and Digital Dissertations<\/a> – SCIRUS Search. This freely available search of public domain theses will include subscribed content from University of Edinburgh subscriptions if you’re on a University network machine, or going through MyEd or VPN at home (No need to alter settings as you would for Google scholar). There’s more full text here than I’d expected.<\/p>\n

9. The DART Europe E-Theses portal<\/a>\u00a0 – at the time of writing, this is offering access to 362030<\/strong> open access research theses from 523<\/a> Universities in 27<\/a> European countries.<\/p>\n

10. For theses from further afield, you could try the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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