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Find Australian and New Zealand Theses

The following resources will help you find theses from Australia and New Zealand.

Trove - Australian Theses
Search the National Library of Australia's Trove service for both print and digital theses at all levels including PhD, Masters and Honours.
Union list of higher degree theses in Australian university libraries : cumulative edition to 1965
Held within the Academy Library is a collection of Folios that cover the theses written in Australia from 1959 - 1978. This link goes to the catalogue record for the cumulative edition to 1965 but there are also supplements at the same location.
New Zealand Libraries Catalogue
Kiwi Research Information Service
This website is a gateway to the open-access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand.
Choose "thesis or dissertation" from the Eprints Type drop down box.

Find International Theses

Many countries have digital thesis projects or include information on theses in national library catalogues so it is recommended that specific country collections are searched.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - GLOBAL This link opens in a new window
Cross-searches UNSW's subscribed ProQuest databases : : ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM); Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI); International Bibliography of Art (IBA); ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Arts; Research Library: The Arts. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland : this database is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The collection offers the most comprehensive available listing of theses, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716.

WorldCat
This is the largest network of library content and services in the world. The libraries who are part of this network are dedicated to providing access to their resources through the Web.
Select Advanced Search then select Thesis/dissertations as a Content type.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - NDLTD
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
British Library - EThOS Electronic Thesis Online Service
EThOS aims to give access to ALL theses from participating UK institutions whether paper based or electronic.EThOS harvests e-theses from Institutional Repositories and digitises paper based theses as they are ordered by researchers using the system.
Theses Canada
This respository will allow you to search the records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965. There are 60 Canadian universities who are currently submitting theses to the National Library of Canada for cataloguing.
DART - Europe E-theses Portal
DART provides access to around 290,000 research theses from 20 European countries.
OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of over 2000 repositories word wide.

Find UNSW theses

UNSW theses can be found using the UNSW institutional repository, UNSWorks.
For tips on searching the repository, visit the Help screen.

Some Australian and international theses/dissertations can be found using the Academy Library SearchGateway.

Carry out a search on your topic, author, or thesis title
Click on ‘more options’ under ‘Resource Type’
Include ‘Thesis’ by checking appropriate box

eBooks on Thesis Writing

Writing Your Thesis by Oliver, Paul
ISBN: 9781412946896
Publication Date: 2008
Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Dissertation by Patrick Dunleavy
ISBN: 9780230802087
Publication Date: 2003
Doctorates Downunder : Keys to successful doctoral study in Australia and New Zealand by Carey Denholm (Editor); Terry Evans (Editor)
ISBN: 9780864314291
Publication Date: 2006

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