Finding Theses

CQU Theses

To find CQU theses search the CQU Library Catalogue - try various combinations of terms within a General Keyword search.

eg. "central queensland university" AND thesis AND engineering
or "central queensland university" AND phd AND biology

Australian Theses

To find Australian theses, use Libraries Australia (password required to access advanced search features). Instructions on how to find an Australian thesis on your topic using this resource are available.

CQU is a participating member of the Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) Program, a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research theses from participating institutions.

Information on depositing your CQU thesis with the ADT program and a browsable list of CQU electronic theses are available.

International Theses

With more than 1.6 million entries, the Digital Dissertations database (accessed through Proquest) is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. This database also provides full-text access to over 100,000 dissertation, from 1997 onwards.

The Index to Theses is a searchable database of theses (abstracts included in recent entries) accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. As this is an abstract only database to access the full-text you need to request the thesis using the CQU document delivery service.

Various listings of theses on the WWW.

Theses Canada Portal
The central access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
A digital library of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from selected universities.
http://www.theses.org/

Center for Research Libraries
Twenty thousand doctoral dissertations from outside of the United States and Canada are searchable from this site.
http://www.crl.edu

Digital Library and Archives
Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses

PhdData: The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress
PhdData has citations from several thousand dissertations in progress from various parts of the world.
http://www.phddata.org

Subject-specific sources for theses

A number of databases index relevant theses. An example is the Australian Education Index on Informit.

There are also some subject-specific sources for theses. You may be interested in some of the following:

Microform Publications of Human Movement Science
Microform Publications of Human Movement Studies (MFP) is a non-profit component of the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance (IISHP). MFP archives and disseminates graduate research studies in microfiche form. The areas of study include kinesiology, health, physical education, and recreation, exercise and sport sciences, sport history and philosophy, and dance. You may search the titles of the theses and dissertations under "Search the Collection".
http://kinpubs.uoregon.edu/

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
This is an international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 12,000 records. Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm

Abes: Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur
Citations to French dissertations.
http://www.abes.fr/abes/DesktopDefault.aspx?Loupe=Moin

Directory of Dissertations in Progress
"The Directory contains 3,804 dissertations in progress at 170 academic departments in Canada and the U.S." This is a citation database of dissertations in progress in the area of history.
http://www.historians.org/pubs/dissertations/index.cfm

TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network
TREN provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers. Items can then be purchased through this site. The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.
http://www.tren.com