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Theses and Dissertations from Tulane University

Tulane University Theses & Dissertations Archive
Tulane's archive of master's theses and doctoral dissertations completed as part of university graduate degree requirements. Select theses and dissertations are available only in print in University Archives.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
The world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world. Full text available for most dissertations added since 1997. Selective coverage of Tulane University scholarship begins in 1957.

ProQuest Dissertation Express
Non-Tulane affiliates should use this ordering system to directly purchase print, microfilm, or digital dissertations when not available open access online.

Print Holdings in University Archives

Doctoral dissertations before 1956 and selective titles prior to April 2022.
Master's theses before April 2022. Stringent photocopying rules apply and these items do not circulate.
Honors theses before 2020. Stringent photocopying rules apply and these items do not circulate.

Use Library Search to discover Tulane theses and dissertations in print. To browse a specific field, limit your search to Library Catalog (not Everything) and enter one of the following, replacing department name with your desired department.

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Theses and Dissertations from Beyond Tulane

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
The world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world. Full text available for most dissertations added since 1997. Selective coverage of Tulane University scholarship begins in 1957.

ProQuest Dissertation Express
Non-Tulane affiliates should use this ordering system to directly purchase print, microfilm, or digital dissertations when not available open access online.

ABI/INFORM Global 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) BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), a German database, is one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic resources like journal articles, dissertations and theses, and research reports. It is especially strong in international and open access content.

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 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 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