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Finding Theses

This guide will help you locate theses and dissertations, in both print and electronic format, from the University of Calgary and elsewhere.

Finding Theses from Other Universities

If you're seeking particular theses from other Canadian universities, try the following databases:

If you're seeking particular theses from United State's universities, try the following databases:

If you're seeking particular theses from other international universities, try the following databases:

Other jurisdictions where theses may be found are:

  • African Digital Research Repositories
    Includes full text dissertations, theses, reports, journal articles from a range of academic institutions in Africa
  • Australian Theses | Trove
    Trove is a good resource for health research that contains theses, long essays, or dissertations including Indigenous studies. Some of them are in print form only, some are available online in digital format.
  • British Library Ethos (EThOSnet)
    It is the UK's national thesis services that includes approximately 380,000 records relating to theses from 120 institutions
  • DART-Europe E-these portal
    Access to 1,389,942 open access research theses from 585 Universities in 29 European countries.
  • NDLTD Union Catalogue
    A global organization focused on encouraging the use, creation, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) to promote electronic publishing and open access.
  • OATD (Open Access Theses and Dissertations)
    ​​​​​​​Aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. OATD currently indexes 4,983,496 theses and dissertations.
  • Russia National Bibliography
    A comprehensive bibliography of Russian printed works providing access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps.

Borrowing Theses from Other Universities

Current students, faculty and staff can request an item that the University of Calgary doesn't have in our library collection. Use the Interlibrary Loans Services (ILL) to obtain thesis that are not available from the library collection or any of the theses databases. The staff at the ILL unit will obtain the resource on your behalf and loan periods will be applicable depending on the lending institution. Please submit interlibrary loan at here: https://library.ucalgary.ca/services/interlibrary-loans
To request an interlibrary loan:

  • Select the Sign In icon and enter your University of Calgary login information
  • Supply the information on the required fields - i.e. book, author, publication date, ISBN. Please note that adding in the ISBN (books) will help our system fill your request faster. If your item doesn't have an ISBN, type "Not applicable" in the box.
  • Use the Comments/Notes field to provide additional details of the required thesis