Library Guides: Theses and Dissertations: A Guide: Theses &amp; Dissertations

Digital Theses and Dissertations

Tulane University Theses & Dissertations Archive
Tulane's portal for submitting and accessing theses and dissertations. Selective full text content begins in 1957.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world. Coverage: 1861 to present. Full text for most dissertations added since 1997. For Tulane dissertations, selective full text coverage begins in 1957.

ProQuest Dissertation Express
Non-Tulane affiliates: Use this ordering system to directly purchase print, microfilm, or digital dissertations when they are not available open access.

ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new window Contains full-text dissertations in business and management. Select "show more fields" and then under "document type," select "Dissertation/Thesis."
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) This link opens in a new window BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). It is particularly useful for locating scholarship produced outside the United States.

Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD) Theses and Dissertations from Brazilian universities and libraries.
Dialnet: Tesis Doctorales A database of dissertations from Spanish universities, many in full text.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM) by the American Musicological Society This link opens in a new window An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.

EThOS (e-theses online service, British Library) The UK’s national thesis service.
Foreign Doctoral Dissertations (Center for Research Libraries) Doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften from universities outside of the U.S. and Canada. Some titles are full text and others may be requested via interlibrary loan.
NDLTD Global Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Search Search over 5 million electronic theses and dissertations contained in the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
Open Access Theses and Dissertations

Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window This research database indexes thousands of theses and dissertations accepted by American universities from 1955 to the present and provides links to full text, when available.

Theses Canada A collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 universities accredited by Universities Canada.
Thesis Commons: An open archive of Theses

Paper Format Theses and Dissertations at Tulane University

University Archives houses in print the following senior honors theses, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations:

Doctoral dissertations completed before 1956.
Theses and dissertations submitted prior to April 2022.
Honors theses prior to 2020. Stringent photocopying rules apply and these items do not circulate.
Master’s theses prior to April 2022. Stringent photocopying rules apply and these items do not circulate.

Library Search at Tulane This link opens in a new window

Tulane theses and dissertations are cataloged and discoverable via Library Search. To browse theses or dissertations in a specific field, enter one of the following and replace department name with the desired department.

Tulane thesis M.A. department name
Tulane thesis M.S. department name
Tulane thesis B.A. department name
Tulane thesis B.S. department name