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Theses & dissertations: home, access to theses and dissertations from other institutions and from the university of cambridge.

This guide provides information on searching for theses of Cambridge PhDs and for theses of UK universities and universities abroad. 

For information and guidance on depositing your thesis as a cambridge phd, visit the cambridge office of scholarly communication pages on theses here ., this guide gives essential information on how to obtain theses using the british library's ethos service. .

On the last weekend of October, the British Library became the victim of a major cyber-attack. Essential digital services including the BL catalogue, website and online learning resources went dark, with research services like the EThOS collection of more than 600,000 doctoral theses suddenly unavailable. The BL state that they anticipate restoring more services in the next few weeks, but disruption to certain services is now expected to persist for several months. For the latest news on the attack and information on the restoration of services, please follow the BL blog here:  Knowledge Matters blog  and access the LibGuide page here:  British Library Outage Update - Electronic Legal Deposit - LibGuides at University of Cambridge Subject Libraries

A full list of resources for searching theses online is provided by the Cambridge A-Z, available here .

University of Cambridge theses

Finding a cambridge phd thesis online via the institutional repository.

The University's institutional repository, Apollo , holds full-text digital versions of over 11,000 Cambridge PhD theses and is a rapidly growing collection deposited by Cambridge Ph.D. graduates. Theses in Apollo can be browsed via this link . More information on how to access theses by University of Cambridge students can be found on the access to Cambridge theses webpage.   The requirement for impending PhD graduates to deposit a digital version in order to graduate means the repository will be increasing at a rate of approximately 1,000 per year from this source.   About 200 theses are added annually through requests to make theses Open Access or via requests to digitize a thesis in printed format.

Locating and obtaining a copy of a Cambridge PhD thesis (not yet available via the repository)

Theses can be searched in iDiscover .  Guidance on searching for theses in iDiscover can be found here .   Requests for consultation of printed theses, not available online, should be made at the Manuscripts Reading Room (Email:  [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)1223 333143).   Further information on the University Library's theses, dissertations and prize essays collections can be consulted at this link .

Researchers can order a copy of an unpublished thesis which was deposited in print form either through the Library’s  Digital Content Unit via the image request form , or, if the thesis has been digitised, it may be available in the Apollo repository. Copies of theses may be provided to researchers in accordance with the  law  and in a manner that is common across UK libraries.  The law allows us to provide whole copies of unpublished theses to individuals as long as they sign a declaration saying that it is for non-commercial research or private study.

How to make your thesis available online through Cambridge's institutional repository

Are you a Cambridge alumni and wish to make your Ph.D. thesis available online? You can do this by depositing it in Apollo the University's institutional repository. Click here for further information on how to proceed.    Current Ph.D students at the University of Cambridge can find further information about the requirements to deposit theses on the Office of Scholarly Communication theses webpages.

UK Theses and Dissertations

Electronic copies of Ph.D. theses submitted at over 100 UK universities are obtainable from EThOS , a service set up to provide access to all theses from participating institutions. It achieves this by harvesting e-theses from Institutional Repositories and by digitising print theses as they are ordered by researchers using the system. Over 250,000 theses are already available in this way. Please note that it does not supply theses submitted at the universities of Cambridge or Oxford although they are listed on EThOS.

Registration with EThOS is not required to search for a thesis but is necessary to download or order one unless it is stored in the university repository rather than the British Library (in which case a link to the repository will be displayed). Many theses are available without charge on an Open Access basis but in all other cases, if you are requesting a thesis that has not yet been digitised you will be asked to meet the cost. Once a thesis has been digitised it is available for free download thereafter.

When you order a thesis it will either be immediately available for download or writing to hard copy or it will need to be digitised. If you order a thesis for digitisation, the system will manage the process and you will be informed when the thesis is available for download/preparation to hard copy.

See the Search results section of the  help page for full information on interpreting search results in EThOS.

EThOS is managed by the British Library and can be found at http://ethos.bl.uk . For more information see About EThOS .

World-wide (incl. UK) theses and dissertations

Electronic versions of non-UK theses may be available from the institution at which they were submitted, sometimes on an open access basis from the institutional repository. A good starting point for discovering freely available electronic theses and dissertations beyond the UK is the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) , which facilitates searching across institutions. Information can also usually be found on the library web pages of the relevant institution.

The DART Europe etheses portal lists several thousand full-text theses from a group of European universities.

The University Library subscribes to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  (PQDT) database which from August 31 2023 is accessed on the Web of Science platform.  To search this index select it from the Web of Science "Search in" drop-down list of databases (available on the Documents tab on WoS home page)

PQDT includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations, representing 700 leading academic institutions worldwide from 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The University Library only subscribes to the abstracting & indexing version of the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database and NOT the full text version.  A fee is payable for ordering a dissertation from this source.   To obtain the full text of a dissertation as a downloadable PDF you can submit your request via the University Library Inter-Library Loans department (see contact details below). NB this service is only available to full and current members of the University of Cambridge.

Alternatively you can pay yourself for the dissertation PDF on the PQDT platform. Link from Web of Science record display of any thesis to PQDT by clicking on "View Details on ProQuest".  On the "Preview" page you will see an option "Order a copy" top right.  This will allow you to order your own copy from ProQuest directly.

Dissertations and theses submitted at non-UK universities may also be requested on Inter-Library Loan through the Inter-Library Loans department (01223 333039 or 333080, [email protected] )

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Online theses.

Are available via Open Research Online .

Print theses

Search for OU theses in the Library Search . To see only print theses click 'In the Walton Hall library' and refine your results to resource type 'Thesis'.

OU staff and research students can  borrow a consultation copy of a thesis (if available). Please contact the Library helpdesk giving the author and title of the thesis.

UK theses and dissertations from EThOS

The Electronic Theses Online System (EThOS) offers free access to the full text of UK theses.

• EThOS offers a one stop online shop providing free access to UK theses
• EThOS digitizes theses on request into PDF format, this may require payment
• EThOS is managed by the British Library in partnership with a number of UK universities
• EThOS is open to all categories of library user

What does this mean to you as a library user?

When you need to access a PhD thesis from another UK based HE institution you should check EThOS to either download a thesis which has already been digitised or to request that a UK thesis be supplied to you.

• For all UK theses EThOS will be the first point of delivery. You can use the online ordering and tracking system direct from EThOS to manage your requests for UK PhD theses, including checking the status of your requests
• As readers you will deal directly with EThOS so will not need to fill in a document delivery request
• OU staff and research students will still be entitled to access non-UK based PhD theses by filling in a document delivery request
• In some cases where EThOS is unable to supply a UK thesis OU staff and research students will be able to access it by filling in a conventional document delivery request. The thesis will be supplied through direct loan
• The EThOS system is both faster and cheaper than the previous British Theses service which was based on microfilm
• The British Library no longer arranges interlibrary loans for UK PhD theses
• Interlibrary Loan procedures for other types of request from the British Library (articles and books for example) will remain the same

If you have any queries about using EThOS contact the Document Delivery Team ( [email protected] or the Library Helpdesk ).

Note 13/03/2024: The British Library is continuing to experience a major technology outage affecting its websites and other online systems, due to a Cyber attack. as a result access to ETHOS might not be possible until the issue is fixed. 

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Oxford theses

The Bodleian Libraries’ thesis collection holds every DPhil thesis deposited at the University of Oxford since the degree began in its present form in 1917. Our oldest theses date from the early 1920s. We also have substantial holdings of MLitt theses, for which deposit became compulsory in 1953, and MPhil theses.

It is mandatory for students completing a research degree at the University of Oxford (registered to a programme of study on or after 1st October 2007) to deposit an electronic copy of their theses with the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) in order to meet the requirements of their award.

ORA provides full-text PDF copies of most recent DPhil theses, and some earlier BLitt/MLitt theses. Find out more about Oxford Digital Theses, and depositing with ORA .

Finding theses

The following theses are catalogued on SOLO (the University’s online library catalogue) :

• all DPhil and BLitt/MLitt theses
• all BPhil and MPhil theses (1993 – present)  
• all Law theses
• all science theses

As part of an ongoing conversion project, a growing number of pre-1993 BPhil and MPhil theses can now be found on SOLO. 

SOLO collates search results from several sources.

How to search for theses on SOLO

To search for theses in the Oxford collections on SOLO :

• navigate to the SOLO homepage
• click on the 'Advanced Search' button
• click the 'Material Type' menu and choose the 'Dissertations' option
• type in the title or author of the thesis you are looking for and click the 'Search' button.

For theses completed post-2000, the item record will also give additional details, usually in the notes field: most importantly, the type of degree and supervisor’s name. These details can therefore be used in keyword searching. Example: d.phil smith . These can be combined with normal author, title or subject keywords as required in an anywhere in the record keyword search. For example: thesis smith Constantinople d.phil

The name of the Oxford faculty can also be used, as can the division, faculty/sub-faculty/department, or college (for post-2000 theses).

Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)

Digital copies of Oxford theses have been collected in ORA since 2007. For current research degrees completed at the University, it is mandatory for degree confirmation to submit an electronic copy of the examined thesis to the repository.

Many of the theses submitted are immediately available for download in PDF format from the repository. Others are access-restricted for an embargo period applied by the author, typically 1 to 3 years from leave to supplicate being granted.

The Oxford digital theses collection is primarily a modern collection that continues to grow each year. However, the collection does hold theses going back as far as 1933.  

Theses held in ORA are indexed with SOLO , as well as external services such as EThOS and Google Scholar. For more information visit the Oxford digital theses guide , and see below for guidance on searching in ORA.

Search for Oxford theses on ORA

A general search on title or terms within ORA (such as keywords or names) can be performed from the main search box of the repository website.

A more ‘closed’ search can be performed by placing the text being searched for between double quotations (“search text here”).

Search results can be further refined by using the left hand side search facets, including by:

• item type (thesis, journal article, book section, etc.)
• thesis type (DPhil, MSc, MLitt, etc.)
• subject area (History, Economics, Biochemistry, etc.)
• item date (as a range)
• file availability (whether a full text is available to download or not)

Search results can be expanded in number shown per page and sorted by relevance, date and file availability.

They can also be exported to csv, or emailed as a saved search.

From within an individual item record, further searching can be done by selecting hyperlinked text within the record details, such as “More by this author” which performs a loose search on the author name, or by selecting a hyperlinked keyword or subject.

Other catalogues

Card catalogue  .

The Rare Books department of the Weston Library keeps an author card index of Oxford theses. This includes all older, non-scientific theses not yet catalogued in SOLO. Please ask Weston Library staff for assistance, or contact the Theses Desk.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

You can use ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland to find bibliographic details of Oxford theses not on SOLO. To find the shelfmarks of such theses, apply to the staff of the Weston Library's Charles Wendell David Reading Room who will ask the Rare Books department to check the card catalogue of non-scientific theses that are not in SOLO.

Search for Oxford theses on ProQuest

You can read a 24 page PDF file preview of all theses published since 1997. You also have the option to purchase a copy of the thesis.

Basic search

The default Basic search page allows for general keyword searches across all indexes using "and", "and not", "and or" to link the keywords as appropriate. Click on the More Search Options tab for specific title, author, subject and institution (school) searches, and to browse indexes of authors, institutions and subjects. These indexes allow you to add the word or phrase recognised by the database to your search (ie University of Oxford (United Kingdom), not Oxford University).

Advanced search

The Advanced search tab (at the top of the page) enables keyword searching in specific indexes, including author, title, institution, department, adviser and language. If you are unsure of the exact details of thesis, you can use the search boxes on this page to find it by combining the key information you do have.

Search tools

In both the Basic and Advanced search pages you can also limit the search by date by using the boxes at the bottom. Use the Search Tools advice in both the Basic and Advanced pages to undertake more complex and specific searches. Within the list of results, once you have found the record that you are interested in, you can click on the link to obtain a full citation and abstract. You can use the back button on your browser to return to your list of citations.

The Browse search tab allows you to search by subject or by location (ie institution). These are given in an alphabetical list. You can click on a top-level subject to show subdivisions of the subject. You can click on a country location to show lists of institutions in that country. At each level, you can click on View Documents to show lists of individual theses for that subject division or from that location.

In Browse search, locations and subject divisions are automatically added to a basic search at the bottom of the page. You can search within a subject or location by title, author, institution, subject, date etc, by clicking on Refine Search at the top of the page or More Search Options at the bottom of the page.

Where are physical theses held?

Bodleian library.

The Bodleian Library holds all non-scientific doctoral theses and most non-scientific postgraduate (non-doctoral) theses for which a deposit requirement is stipulated by the University:

• DPhil (doctoral) theses
• Bachelor of Divinity (BD) theses
• BLitt/MLitt theses (Michaelmas Term 1953 – present)
• BPhil and MPhil theses (Michaelmas Term 1977 – present)

Some theses administered by the Bodleian Library are dispatched to other locations.

Oxford Theses (Humanities) administers theses held at the Bodleian Library, the Bodleian Law Library and the Vere Harmsworth Library.

Law Library

Theses submitted to the Faculty of Law are held at the Bodleian Law Library .

Vere Harmsworth Library

Theses on the United States are held by the Vere Harmsworth Library .

Social Science Library

The Social Science Library holds dissertations produced by students on selected social science (usually MPhil and MSc) courses. Theses for courses currently taught in Oxford are catalogued on SOLO . In some subjects, the library holds only dissertations which received particularly high marks.

The library holds dissertations from the following departments: Criminology, Economics, Geography, International Development, Politics & International Relations (MPhil Politics & International Relations theses are held in the Bodleian Library) and Socio-Legal Studies and Social Policy & Intervention.

Theses are held on open-shelf and can be browsed by department, course and year. Work is in progress to catalogue older theses, particularly the archive received from the Department of Social Policy and Social Work.

Locations for Anthropology and Archaeology theses

The Tylor Library holds theses for the MPhil in Social Anthropology. The Balfour Library holds theses for the MPhil in Material and Visual Anthropology and some older theses in Prehistoric Archaeology.

The Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library holds theses for MPhil in Classical Archaeology and MPhil in European Archaeology.

Radcliffe Science Library

The Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) holds all postgraduate theses in the sciences for which the University requires deposit. Science theses are catalogued on SOLO . They are administered by Oxford Theses (Scientific). 

Ordering Oxford theses

If you are placing an order through SOLO , non-scientific theses held in the Bodleian Library must be ordered to the Charles Wendell David Reading Room in the Weston Library . Music theses may also be ordered to the Sir Charles Mackerras Reading Room . These are the only locations available.

You can request theses that do not yet appear in SOLO using the green order slips in Weston Library reading rooms.

Theses are now stored offsite at our Swindon storage faculty (BSF), so please allow at least one weekday for delivery.

Digital copies

You can request digital copies of theses held by the libraries. Many Oxford theses held in digital form by the libraries are available for download via ORA . Where ORA holds a digital copy of a thesis but it is not yet available for download – due to a temporary embargo period or other restriction – a record for the thesis will exist in ORA, and you can request access via the ORA contact form .

The request will be passed to the author for permission to share a digital copy with you under the ORA terms of use. If a record does not exist in ORA but a physical copy is held by the libraries, you can send a request for this to be digitised to the Oxford theses team ( [email protected] ).

Find out more about requesting a digitised copy, copyright restrictions and copying from Oxford theses .

Theses and dissertation: Finding a UK thesis

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The Electronic Theses Online System

The Electronic Theses Online System is a service from the British Library that provides online access to the full-text of UK doctoral theses. It contains over 380,000+ records of doctoral theses from UK Higher Education Institutions. Many of these have already been digitised and are available for immediate download.

Can I request UK theses from other universities from the Library?

You no longer request theses from other universities through Sussex University's Interlibrary Requests service - you can access them directly via EThOS.

Do I need to register?

You do not need to register to search the 380,000+ records in the EThOS database, but you will need to register if you would like to download a thesis.

Are immediate downloads available?

If the thesis in which you are interested has already been digitised, you will be able to download it immediately without charge. If the thesis you need has not yet been digitised, there will be a short delay whilst digitisation takes place. You will then be notified by EThOS when the thesis is ready to be downloaded. Once the thesis has been digitised it is then available for immediate download by any other user.

Are all theses digitised?

Some theses cannot be digitised for copyright reasons. If this is the case with the thesis you need, please inform the Interlibrary Requests team who will investigate whether a hard copy can be borrowed directly from the relevant university.

Does this service cost me anything?

On rare occasions you may be asked by EThOS to pay for the digitisation of a thesis. This is because, although the majority of institutions participating in EThOS have agreed to pay for the digitisation of their own theses on request, some institutions have not.

In such cases, the Library will pay the cost of digitisation provided that funding is available. Please contact the Research Support team on Tel: 01273 877941 (int 7941) or Email: [email protected] with the full details of your request.

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• EThOS A service from the British Library that provides online access to the fulltext of UK doctoral theses. The EThOS database contains over 300,000+ records of doctoral theses from UK Higher Education Institutions.
• Copyright guide A practical guide on copyright issues in your thesis.
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Library Services

Here we explain how to access copies of research theses that UCL Library Services holds. There is also an increasing number of open access thesis repositories available online.

Theses held in UCL Library

Open access repositories containing the full text of selected research theses.

• Indexes of completed theses

Obtaining copies of research theses

• Open Access for Thesis: how to deposit

University of London theses

The Library holds a copy of most research degree theses completed by students registered at UCL and awarded by the UoL, including many from students at Schools and Institutes prior to merger with UCL. Theses are listed by author on the Library catalogue, Explore : they are shelved in our off-campus Store and may be retrieved for consultation (24-hour notice required) by completing the store request form or via the request link on Explore. Theses are not available for loan, either to individuals or via interlibrary loan.

Some UoL research degree theses submitted by UCL students in the areas of classical, Germanic, Latin American studies; history and law are not held: check the UoL School of Advanced Study catalogue for availability.

UCL started to award its own degrees to students registering from 2007/2008. Print copies of research theses are catalogued by author in Explore and shelved in Store; electronic versions are in many cases available on open access in UCL Discovery .

If you wish to access a thesis recorded in UCL Discovery for which the full text is subject to an access restriction or not present, it is best to contact the author directly to request a copy privately.  If this is not possible, please contact the UCL Open Access Team .

If a thesis is not available via UCL Discovery or EThOS (see below) then it might be possible to obtain a copy from our interlibrary loan service via your home university interlibrary loan department. Please contact your university library and ask them to enquire about this service with UCL's Interlibrary Loan service; e-mail [email protected] for more information.

The Library does not normally hold print copies of any theses in the following categories:

• MA, MSc, MRes, LLM theses.
• Diploma theses.
• Undergraduate dissertations.
• Theses submitted at other universities or colleges.

Further information is available in the Support for dissertations and research projects LibGuide .

A growing number of open access thesis repositories is becoming available including:

• ProQuest , holds many full text theses. You can search for dissertations and theses there.
• UCL Discovery , UCL's open access research repository, includes theses alongside other UCL publications. You can search for theses, or browse a list.
• EThOS , a database run by the British Library that aims to record all UK doctoral theses, with links to access an electronic version of the full text where available. The digitisation of theses that only exist in print form can often be requested, depending on the awarding institution and for a fee: UCL supports this process for UCL-held theses.
• The DART-Europe E-theses Portal , holds details of open access electronic theses stored in repositories across Europe.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations , includes links to a number of international search tools and portals.

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Indexes of completed theses (access available to members of UCL only)

Proquest dissertations & theses global (pqdt global).

PQDT Global contains over a million full-text dissertations and theses from 1861 onwards that are available for download in PDF format. The collection includes PQDT UK and Ireland content.

Many UK universities now decline to lend research theses. You may visit the awarding university or, increasingly, obtain an electronic version either from the university itself or from EThOS (see above).

Theses awarded by universities worldwide may be requested via UCL Library Services Interlending and Document Supply service . The normal charge for this service applies. Please note that theses are never available for loan: they must be consulted on Library premises only.

Open access for theses: how to deposit

Candidates for UCL research degrees are required to deposit an electronic copy of their final thesis in UCL's Research Publications Service (RPS), to be made open access in UCL's institutional repository, UCL Discovery . Theses are amongst the most highly-downloaded items in UCL Discovery . Making your thesis open access will mean that it is accessible worldwide, to anyone who wants to read it.

It is also possible, but not mandatory, to submit a print copy of your thesis to the Library for storage and preservation if you wish. We recommend submitting the print copy in cases where the electronic copy cannot be made openly available online in UCL Discovery, but you wish the print copy to be accessible to members of the Library.

Please refer to our guidance on how to deposit  for further information on the submission procedures.

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How do I find a Cambridge thesis?

Ph.D., M.Litt., M.Sc., and Divinity M.Phil. theses approved after 1970 are catalogued in iDiscover, as are M.D. and M.Chir. theses approved after May 2006. Earlier theses are listed in a card catalogue in the Manuscripts Reading Room and are gradually being added to iDiscover.

Since 1 October 2017, all PhD theses are being deposited in electronic form to the University repository  Apollo . Many earlier theses are also in the repository, but if they are not yet in digital form it is possible to request access to these theses. There is more information on how to request a copy of a printed thesis further down this page.

Gaining access to electronic copies of a thesis

The author of a given thesis in Apollo can choose whether their thesis is available to be downloaded, available on request or unavailable. While many of the theses in Apollo are openly available for download, some theses in the repository are not open access because they have either been embargoed by the author or because they are unable to be made openly available for copyright or other reasons.

Requesting a copy of a printed thesis

Researchers can order a copy of an unpublished thesis which was deposited in print form through the Library’s  Digital Content Unit  via the  image request form . Copies of theses may be provided to researchers in accordance with the  law  and in a manner that is common across UK libraries.The law allows us to provide whole copies of unpublished theses to individuals as long as they sign a declaration saying that it is for non-commercial research or private study. The agreement used for access to theses at Cambridge has been drafted using the guidance by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).

Theses are not available for borrowing or inter library loan. The copyright of theses remains with the author. The law does not allow us to provide a copy for inclusion in a general library collection or for wider distribution beyond the individual receiving the copy, without the explicit permission of the author or copyright holder. Where someone approaches us asking for a copy for their library or wider distribution, they must obtain the explicit permission of the author or copyright owner.

Please note any periods of access restriction requested by the author apply to both electronic and print copies.

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Theses and dissertations

Introduction to ethos, about ethos, benefits of using phds, further information.

Benefits to researchers

• Easy access to UK research theses.
• Centralised access to new and retrospectively digitised theses.
• Raised profile for individual authors from wider circulation of their work.
• Support for the principle of Open Access and increased use of publicly-funded research outputs.

Ethos is the British Library digital repository for UK research theses offering a central access point to UK doctoral theses. The majority of universities in the UK are members. You can cross-search over 500,000 theses including those available for immediate download.

Requesting doctoral theses

You must first register on an individual basis with Ethos in order to make requests through the Ethos website. The  Ethos site provides further information .

In some cases the first person (or their institution) to request a thesis is required to pay for the cost of digitisation. In the first instance researchers should refer to the Director of Research and Enterprise or their supervisor in the school about recovering costs from school research funds.

How long will it take?

Immediate download for theses already digitised. For theses not yet digitised you will need to contact the library of the university where the paper thesis is held to request access.

University of Greenwich theses are uploaded to  GALA  and harvested into Ethos allowing you to search and download from from either source.

Visit our theses and dissertations page to find out more about  finding PhD theses  within and beyond the university.

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This guide gives you an overview of key theses resources and what material they include.

If you're new to theses and want to know how they can support your studies:  check out the  theses and dissertations  section in our  Library Research Skills Moodle module .

UK and international theses

Many UK theses are available on the British Library EThOS site. You need to register/login to download a thesis or order a digitised copy - it's free.

If the thesis you need isn't available on EThOS or you're asked to pay for it, make a document delivery request . Your school or department may pay for you to get access to the thesis.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a collection of dissertations and theses from around the world.

 See our  full list of theses and dissertations databases .

University of Kent theses

Kent theses completed since September 2014 are held indigital format in the Kent Academic Repository (KAR) .

Older theses are held by the Library in print format; they can't be borrowed - you can only read them in the Library building.

Before using the methods below to search for theses, it's worth checking EThOS , which includes over 4000 Kent theses, including digitised print theses.

• Go to Advanced Search .
• Change one of the filters to "Awarding body" and enter "University of Kent".

Kent theses completed since September 2014

These are all included in LibrarySearch and you can find them by keyword. But the easiest way to browse Kent theses in a particular subject is to go directly to KAR :

• use the  Advanced Search
• scroll down and under the heading ‘Item type’ tick the box next to ‘Thesis’
• to narrow your search, complete other relevant fields (for example the school, date or date range, or a term in the title). 
• Use KAR to find specific theses
• Use KAR to find examples of theses for your school

You can download most theses in KAR, but some may be restricted. If you want to access a restricted thesis, click  Contact us about this publication  and complete the form. We'll contact the author for you.

Kent theses before September 2014

All print theses are included in  LibrarySearch . To request a print thesis, click  Place Reservation  and we'll email you when it's ready to pick up. Theses are confined, which means you can only use them in the Library building.

To find all print theses in a particular subject, browse this list:

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• Electronic Engineering
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• Ethnobiology
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Essays on panel data prediction models.

Supervisor: Fosten, J. (Supervisor) & Weale, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

Picture this: an investigation of the neural and behavioural correlates of mental imagery in childhood and adulthood with implications for children with ADHD

Supervisor: Farran, E. (External person) (Supervisor) & Smith, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

The role of Neurexin1-alpha in synaptic function and cortical excitation-inhibition balance

Supervisor: Andreae, L. (Supervisor) & Cooke, S. (Supervisor)

Characterisation and modulation of mutant ARPP21 aggregation in ALS

Supervisor: Lieberam, I. (Supervisor), Cocks, G. (Supervisor) & Shaw, C. (Supervisor)

Neural circuitry of acoustic startle habituation and prepulse inhibition in the context of sex steroid hormones using innovative silent functional MRI and electromyography techniques

Supervisor: Williams, S. (Supervisor) & Kumari, V. (Supervisor)

Multiomics integration for biomarker discovery in a preclinical model of colorectal cancer

Supervisor: academic, A. (Supervisor) & Pereira das Neves, J. F. (Supervisor)

Primordial black hole formation processes with full numerical relativity

Supervisor: Lim, E. (Supervisor)

Flourish an Innovation Tomorrowland: The Local Developmental State Model and China’s High-Tech Park

Supervisor: Sun, X. (Supervisor) & Klingler-Vidra, R. (Supervisor)

Transcultural Tales, Political Agendas? The Contribution of Karoline von Woltmann, Carmen Sylva, and Laura Gonzenbach to the German-Language Fairy Tale Tradition of the Nineteenth Century

Supervisor: Schofield, B. (Supervisor) & Smale, C. (Supervisor)

Cancer cell tracking for evaluation of siRNA-mediated EGFR and PD-L1 inhibition in non-small cell lung cancer.

Supervisor: Lam, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Fruhwirth, G. (Supervisor)

Synthesis of Model Transformations from Metamodels and Examples

Supervisor: Lano, K. (Supervisor) & Zschaler, S. (Supervisor)

The Concept and Determinants of Return on Investment from Quality Improvement in Mental Health Organizations

Supervisor: Henderson, R. C. (Supervisor) & Chua, K. (Supervisor)

Detection of Swallowing Events to Quantify Fluid Intake in Older Adults Based on Wearable Sensors

Supervisor: Kamavuako, E. (Supervisor) & Harris, R. (Supervisor)

Between the Classical and the Biopolitical: the Authority of Antiquity in the Articulation of a Modern Paradigm

Supervisor: Orrells, D. J. (Supervisor) & academic, A. (Supervisor)

German defence procurement policy formulation between 2010 and 2020: Studying military innovation’s emergence & effectiveness

Supervisor: Dorman, A. M. (Supervisor) & Nemeth, B. (Supervisor)

Assessment of Healthy Tissue Metabolism to Predict Outcomes in Oncologic [18F]FDG PET/CT

Supervisor: Fischer, M. (Supervisor) & Barrington, S. (Supervisor)

Contributing to smoke-free: How can the provision and uptake of smoking cessation support be improved, including for those with mental health conditions?

Supervisor: Brose, L. S. (Supervisor) & McNeill, A. D. (Supervisor)

Green megawatts for Germany: Geographical experiments in electrification and the political ecology of thermodynamics

Supervisor: Akhter, M. S. (Supervisor), Loftus, A. J. (Supervisor) & academic, A. (Supervisor)

Evaluation of Early-life Intermittent Cold Exposure to Improve the Metabolic Health of High-risk Offspring of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Supervisor: Williamson, C. (Supervisor) & Brain, S. (Supervisor)

Trivial and Non-trivial Defect Conformal Manifolds

Supervisor: Drukker, N. (Supervisor) & academic, A. (Supervisor)

From atoms to the cosmos: new tests of the frontiers of physics

Supervisor: McCabe, C. (Supervisor)

Bone marrow stroma impairs CAR-T cell proliferation and function: mechanistic insights

Supervisor: Dazzi, F. M. (Supervisor) & Kordasti, S. (Supervisor)

Individualised Clinical Neuroimaging in the Developing Brain: Abnormality Detection

Supervisor: O'Muircheartaigh, J. (Supervisor), Counsell, S. (Supervisor) & Carmichael, D. (Supervisor)

From hospital to home. The application of e-health solutions for monitoring and management of people with epilepsy

Supervisor: Richardson, M. (Supervisor) & Pal, D. (Supervisor)

Homogeneous hypersurfaces in Riemannian symmetric spaces

Supervisor: Berndt, J. (Supervisor)

Demystifying Emergence: A New Exploration Through Scientific Case Studies

Supervisor: Papineau, D. C. (Supervisor) & Stazicker, J. D. (Supervisor)

Nose-to-brain delivery of riluzole-loaded polymeric nanoparticles for the treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Supervisor: Forbes, B. J. (Supervisor) & Al-Jamal, K. (Supervisor)

Intestinal Epithelial Injury Induced by Cell Death and Altered Stemness During Cirrhosis Progression.

Supervisor: Soffientini, U. (External person) (Supervisor), Chokshi, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Mehta, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Inaugurated Resurrection in Earliest Christianity

Supervisor: Adams, E. (Supervisor) & Taylor, J. (Supervisor)

Deprivation of Nationality and Democracy – A Comparative Legal Analysis of the EU Member States and the UK

Supervisor: Zumbansen, P. C. (Supervisor) & Pils, E. M. (Supervisor)

Investigation of Novel Dual PET And Fluorescent Bioconjugation Reagents for Cancer PET Imaging and Fluorescence-Guided Surgery, and Therapeutic CAR T-cell Tracking

Supervisor: Yan, R. (Supervisor) & Maher, J. (Supervisor)

Diagnostic value of combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG) in epilepsy.

Supervisor: Richardson, M. (Supervisor)

Smart Fashion: Sustainability, Equity, and the Making of Just Fashion Systems

Supervisor: Brooks, A. (Supervisor) & Yue, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

The role of the oral microbiome in the immunobullous diseases pemphigus vulgaris and mucous membrane pemphigoid and oral lichen planus

Supervisor: Setterfield, J. (Supervisor) & Moyes, D. (Supervisor)

Feasibility of a psychoeducational group intervention to improve parental reflective functioning and bonding in prenatal depression

Supervisor: Challacombe, F. (Supervisor) & Day, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Clinical Psychology

From Aspiration to Actuality under Xi Jinping: Reinterpreting the Outcome-driven Debate towards the Role of Historical Materialism in China’s Rise, 1949–2021

Supervisor: Leveringhaus, N. (Supervisor) & Brown, K. (Supervisor)

‘Dark Practices and Cunning Devices’: Analysing the materiality of secrecy in Elizabethan cultures of security

Supervisor: Birchall, C. (Supervisor) & Smith, D. (Supervisor)

HOW DOES ENVRIONMENTAL POLICY AFFECT RESIDENTIAL ENERGY BEHAVIOR IN RURAL CHINA? - A CASE STUDY OF RESIDENTIAL COAL-TO-CLEAN ENERGY POLICY IN RURAL BEIJING

Supervisor: Tsimonis, K. (Supervisor) & academic, A. (Supervisor)

Curating after world music: Contemporary and experimental practices between Lebanon and Germany

Supervisor: Stokes, M. (Supervisor)

Insider Past Trading Patterns and Corporate Policies

Supervisor: Wang, M. (Supervisor) & Chen, Z. (Supervisor)

Strategic flexibility and Business valuation

Supervisor: Clubb, C. (Supervisor) & Driouchi, T. (Supervisor)

Identifying alterations in adipose tissue-derived islet GPCR peptide ligand mRNAs in obesity: implications for islet function

Supervisor: Persaud, S. (Supervisor) & Atanes Juiz, P. (Supervisor)

Defining the immune phenotype of extremely early-onset type 1 diabetes

Supervisor: Tree, T. (Supervisor) & Gibbons, D. (Supervisor)

Opinion Formation and Herding in Financial Markets

Supervisor: Ventre, C. (Supervisor)

Agent-based Modeling And Market Microstructure

Supervisor: Polukarov, M. (Supervisor), Ventre, C. (Supervisor) & Li, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Is Kant a Kantian constitutivist?

Supervisor: Callanan, J. (Supervisor) & Michaelson, E. (Supervisor)

Spatio-temporal clustering of natural hazards

Supervisor: Malamud, B. (Supervisor) & Pigoli, D. (Supervisor)

Cellular, molecular and synaptic properties of pain: A microfluidic approach

Supervisor: Raouf, R. (Supervisor) & Malcangio, M. (Supervisor)

Multimodal Investigation of Peripheral and Central Nervous System Pain Mechanisms in Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Psychometry (MRIBMS)

Supervisor: Renton, T. (Supervisor), Hoffmann, J. (Supervisor) & Makovac, E. (Supervisor)

Personal Identity as a Hypothesis

Supervisor: Woolf, R. (Supervisor) & Stazicker, J. (Supervisor)

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Theses and dissertations are structured, extended pieces of academic writing presenting an author’s research findings. They are usually submitted as the end of a course as part of the requirements of a university degree. In the UK, 'dissertations' are usually written by undergraduate and master’s students, and 'theses' are produced at doctoral or research degree level.

Doctoral theses are considered particularly insightful as they usually contain original research and make new contributions to scholarship. They are often made openly available on university institutional repositories or digital archives such as City Research Online.

Finding PhD theses

Many institutions maintain open-access repositories of their PhD theses and dissertations. You can learn more about these in our finding open access content guide . You can also find dissertations at the links below.

• City Research Online The institutional repository of City. Using the advanced search option allows you to refine your search for grey literature such as theses.
• EThOS Electronic theses' service from the British Library. Allows you to search for theses from Universities across the UK, many of which are free to download.
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Theses outside Oxford

Searchable abstracts of theses & dissertations from around the world are available via   ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  - many are available for full text download.

The  EThoS  service from the British Library contains information about UK doctoral theses and there is increasing availability of full-text downloads, which are available once a library or individual has paid for digitisation.

Oxford University theses are not available in full online format via EThos but some are available in ORA  (the Oxford Research Archive) - these will show in your SOLO search results, you do not need to search ORA separately.

Copyright and dissertations & theses

When consulting an Oxford thesis or dissertation recognise that the copyright of the thesis rests with the author and that no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior consent of the author.

A thesis or dissertation is an unpublished work therefore no copyright exceptions apply which let you copy. However, for the MSc dissertations held in the Education Library, the authors have agreed to permit limited copying of their thesis by individuals (no more than 5% or one chapter) for personal research use. 

Obtaining copies of or from Oxford dissertations & theses

Dphil theses.

Copying from an Oxford thesis, even of a single page, may require the author's written permission. For more information about the copyright of Oxford theses and how to obtain copies of or from an Oxford thesis please follow the links or  ask us .

MSc dissertations

Limited copying is possible (no more than 5% or one chapter) for personal research use. No quotation or information derived from an MSc dissertation may be published without the written consent of the author of the dissertation. The Higher Degrees office may be able to help you wish to contact an author, but usually you can find possible contact details via an internet search.

Theses & dissertations

To find theses and dissertations in oxford.

On SOLO - just add the word thesis  to your searches. For instance, if you search for oxford thesis education  and then use the Resource Type filter to choose Theses (Oxford) , you will get a large selection of theses & dissertations on educational topics. The results will include both Masters dissertations and Doctoral theses and come from various departments including the Department of Education.

If you add "department of education*"  then the search will bring back theses & dissertations produced in the Department of Education prior to 2020. The asterisk at the end of 'education*' ensures the results will include older theses dissertations from when the Department was called Educational Studies. NB. More recent dissertations are not tagged with information about the Department

You could try adding particular research methods, but be aware that most older dissertations have not been catalogued with any information about research methods used. 

A growing number of Oxford theses & dissertations are available online. These will be included in the results of your SOLO searches once the thesis or dissertation has been deposited into ORA . You can also search ORA directly using course codes, e.g. ALSLA, CIE2021 etc.

• Theses submitted recently may take a while to be processed and to appear on SOLO - you may need to check back periodically to see new additions.

MSc Dissertations in the Education Library

On the open shelves in the Education Library you will find older printed copies of MSc Education, ALSLA and ALLT dissertations. Some years we were able to indicate which dissertations which received distinctions by marking these with a red dot on the spine. Please note that very few dissertations are available from 2020 as the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic meant the requirement for students to submit a hard copy was waived (and only a few students chose to submit online copies to the library). Since 2021 dissertations are primarily submitted online with optional donation of a hard copy to the library shelves. Submission is voluntary so the library does not have every dissertation submitted each year.

MSc dissertations are shelved on the far wall of the Front Reading Room. These are for consultation in the library only and cannot be borrowed.

MSc dissertations are grouped first by course, e.g. ALSLA, Higher Education, and within each course are arranged alphabetically by author’s surname.

To search for MSc dissertations on SOLO type:   "department  of education*"  thesis M.Sc.  using the  Oxford Collections  search filter. Most of the results will be our dissertations.

You could also include author surnames or keywords in your search.

A list of the titles, authors and supervisors of the more recent Department of Education MSc Education and ALSLA dissertations is available from this page. A printed list is also available within the library.

Older MSc dissertations are stored offsite in the Collections Storage Facility. They can be requested to the Education Library (or any other Bodleian Library) and consulted there (not borrowed). 

MSc dissertations from other courses

MSc Learning & Teaching (MLT), MSc Teacher Education (MTed), MSc Educational Assessment (MEA) and MSc Medical Education (MedEd)  students are asked to submit an online copy of their dissertation. Exemplar dissertations are chosen to be made available online via  ORA  - simply type the course code, e.g.  MLT

Lists of recent theses & dissertations

• List of departmental DPhil theses Updated Dec 2023
• Departmental MSc Education & ALSLA dissertations in print A list of which dissertations from our full time courses are available in the library. Updated Dec 2021
• MSc dissertations on ORA A list of MSc Education, ALSLA and ALLT dissertations available online. Updated Feb 2024.
• List of recommended MSc dissertations and DPhil theses Recommended by supervisors across the Departent of Education. Updated Oct 2021

Please note that very few dissertations are available from 2020.

DPhil Theses

DPhil theses are stored offsite in the Collections Storage Facility. They can be requested to the Weston Library and consulted there (not borrowed).

To search for departmental DPhil theses on SOLO  type:  "department  of education*" thesis D Phil  using the  Oxford Collections  search filter.

Note that it is important to include a space between the 'D' and the 'Phil'. You could also include author surnames or keywords in your search.

In recent years DPhil candidates have been required to deposit an online copy of their thesis with ORA. These can be found via SOLO . Occasionally a thesis may be embargoed so that the full text is not available for a few years.

A list of the titles, authors and supervisors of the more recent Department of Education DPhil theses is available from this page. A printed list is also available within the library.

Supervisors in the Department have also made a short list of ‘recommended theses’ that students can draw on for inspiration about layout, format and more substantive issues. The list includes some DPhil and MSc theses with the reason for recommendation, e.g. substantive, methodological, well written etc.

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Dissertation Subject Guide

• Welcome to Dissertation guide!
• Choosing a topic
• Scoping searches
• What type of review?
• Methodology
• Search strategy
• Grey Literature
• Reference Management Software (Endnote etc.)
• Screening papers: PRISMA
• Critical Appraisal
• Data Extraction
• Data Synthesis
• Data Analysis
• Common errors to avoid
• Writing up dissertation

Getting your search strategy right

Think carefully about the search terms and techniques you use. Remember that the databases will just literally search for the terms you have added.

You will be expected to at least use some or a combination of the techniques below to help you create a comprehensive search strategy for your dissertation. 

Finding the right words and phrases to search for can be difficult and time consuming.

Think of different words or phrases that can help your search. This is called synonyms. This may mean that your search includes records that you might not have found before or widen the scope of your search to include those records that have used different words than you initially searched for.

If you're struggling to think of other words/phrases:

• try RCN clinical topics - (not comprehensive but can be a good start
• Using Advanced Search in CINAHL or Medline automatically creates synonyms as soon as you start typing your key term
• When you find a good research article look at the keywords used in that research. This is normally found underneath the abstract

Once you have your different words and phrases you can combine them using Boolean techniques to make your search even better. Boolean are simple words (AND, OR, NOT etc.) used to combine or exclude words/phrases in the search. Use the tabs below for examples and explanations.

Boolean Techniques

• Phrase Searching "....."
• Truncation .....*
• Advanced Boolean: Parenthesis/Nesting (......)
• Advanced Boolean: Proximity NEAR, W3 ...

Using AND between keywords narrows your search results from just a keyword search

Using OR extends your search out which retrieves more results. Works very well with very similar keywords and means you're not missing out on any relevant research.

Use NOT to exclude results that you're interested in and reduce the number of records retrieved.

Phrase searching works really well on all databases. Works well for a phrase that can also work as separate keywords.

Truncation can extend your search out to ensure you're not missing out on any relevant records. Works with words with different endings. Go to last letter of word before ending changes and add * . Here's some examples:

You can use  parentheses/nesting  to build a search with a combination of Boolean Operators by using (...). The search inside the (...) is always done first so this can affect your search results. 

Some databases allow for searching for words within the same sentence or within a defined number of words within one another e.g.

Boolean Operators

Mesh & cinahl headings.

What are MeSH Headings and CINAHL Headings?

The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled and hierarchically-organized vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine. It can help you when searching for biomedical and health-related information. MeSH includes the subject headings appearing in MEDLINE and PubMed . For more information see the Welcome to Medical Subject Headings .

CINAHL Headings is a controlled vocabulary of subject terms. It works very similarly to MeSH Headings. Subject terms are assigned based on article content, allowing you to create a targeted search.

However, when are searching systematically, remember that the controlled language may differ between MeSH and CINAHL headings. And these Headings will not work in the same way in other databases such as Scopus , Web of Science or ASSIA .

How do I use MeSH Headings and CINAHL Headings?

See this guide -  Using CINAHL/MeSH subject Headings Or Video from Ebsco -  Using the CINAHL/MeSHSubject Headings Feature in EBSCOhost

Pubmed tutorials - Learn about Medical Subject Heading (MeSH)

Limiting your search can impact the numbers of research papers you find. Most databases allow you to narrow your search according to your chosen criteria. 

Common limiters (also called filters) include:

language - narrow down to English language

years - very much dependant on your subject and current research available. Keep to 5 - 10 years for most up-to-date research.

Be careful of filter/limit to country. You may find that research papers retrieved are not from that country but could mean that one of the authors is affiliated with a healthcare provider or University in that country. You might be better adding your given country to your searches instead.

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Theses & Dissertations

Search for theses & dissertations.

Search for theses and dissertations using InfoKat Discovery  and filtering your results by resource type.

All master’s theses and doctoral dissertations completed at UK are required to be submitted to the university's institutional repository, UKnowledge , and made freely accessible online. You can find selectively digitized dissertations on UKnowledge that date from 2000, with complete annual runs from 2014 to the present.

Print versions of older UK theses and dissertations are held by the Special Collections Research Center , or in select locations across UK Libraries. 

Dissertation Databases

UK provides access to several databases that allow users to browse millions of theses and dissertations from around the world, including the Open Access Theses & Dissertations database and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global  database.

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EBSCO Open Dissertations

EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. 

Increasing Discovery & Usage of ETD Research

EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. You can join the movement and add your theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to your institutional repository. 

EBSCO Open Dissertations extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

How Does EBSCO Open Dissertations Work?

Your ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to your IR.

EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .

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