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Research Guides

Asian Studies

This is a guide to research resources for east and south Asian studies.

Theses & Dissertations

 ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  - provides  full text electronic access to many theses published since the 1980’s, and a select number from earlier years).

University of Calgary Theses and Dissertations

University of Calgary Collections  - while a copy of all U of C theses is located in the University Archives, for many a second copy is held in the library collection.  Search the catalogue for "calgary and (thes?s or dissertation)" to locate U of C theses.

University of Calgary Institutional Repository -  records for all University of Calgary theses and dissertations  with full text available for many of the works produced since 2012.

Note: many University of Calgary theses are available full-text through ProQuest Digital Dissertations and or Thesis Canada Portal

Other Sources for Theses & Dissertations

Centre for Research Libraries – a collection of over 20,000 doctoral dissertations from outside Canada and the U.S.  Search by title, author or keyword. Items in this database may be obtained by interlibrary loan through U of C’s Document Delivery Services.

National Library of Canada Theses Canada Portal – provides access to the National Library of Canada theses collection, 1965 - over 300,000 theses with over 50,000 available in fulltext

OAIster  -   Union catalogue of digital resources - good for locating theses housed in the digital repositories of various universities

Worldcat -   Change " Subtype limits" for "any content" to " Thesis/Dissertation". Note: Some results may be later edited publications of original dissertations.

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