The Elusive Dissertation
There is no single source for a comprehensive dissertation search. WorldCat and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global include most American dissertations. Dissertations @ The Center for Research Libraries lends non-American dissertations to member borrowers. Library catalogs and specialized repositories contain other titles. Request any dissertation through Interlibrary Loan. Though not every title is available through ILL, it is worth a try.
Dissertation Databases & Repositories
For more information on finding or depositing dissertations and theses, see the Dissertations & Theses guide.
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Graduate Center Dissertations in Academic Works, 2014-presentAs of 2014, all Graduate Center dissertations, theses, and capstone projects are posted to CUNY Academic Works. Some are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author.
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Dissertations & Theses GlobalIndexes two-million dissertations from over one-thousand institutions, with citations from 1861-1980 and abstracts from 1980 to present. Includes the full text of most post-1996 CUNY dissertations and many post-1996 dissertations from other institutions, as well as thousands of earlier ones. To limit your search to CUNY dissertations, include 0046 in your search statement, selecting the school name/code search field. Non-U.S.dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries' catalog.
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Dissertations & Theses @ City University of New York Graduate CenterCUNY dissertations dating back to 1965. Full text available except for embargoed works.
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Global ETD SearchNDLTD's Global ETD Search is a free service that allows researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations based on keyword, date, institution, language and subject.
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Open Access Theses and DissertationsMetadata from over 1100 institutions, indexes over 2.5 million theses and dissertations.
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Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online CatalogThe Center for Research Libraries provides a shared collection of five million books, journals, documents and newspapers to supplement member libraries’ holdings in the humanities, science, and social sciences. With a strategic emphasis on expanding electronic access to international primary source collections, CRL participates in a number of cooperative digitization efforts, yielding over 15 million pages of digitized content to date.
CRL resources include: