MHPE: Associations and Sources for Grey Literature

(from: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/grad/researchskills/flow_of_info.html)

This comprehensive list has been compiled by Tanya Feddern-Bekcan whose efforts and generosity we gratefully acknowledge.

Abes: Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Superieur (from France)

http://en.abes.fr/

Caltech theses

http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/

Center for Research Libraries foreign dissertations

http://www.crl.edu/catalog/dissertationSearch.asp

Cybertesis.net

http://www.tesis.uchile.cl/

University of Chile, provides access to 27,000 etheses from 35 world universities

DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP)

http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). Access to 106,000 doctoral theses.

Digital Library and Archives

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses

Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations.  Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.

Dissertation Express

http://disexpress.umi.com/

Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI Proquest. Good for US theses. It’s free to search the database. To order full text has associated costs. Digital Dissertations is a subset comprising all dissertations in the Dissertation Abstracts database with a degree date of the current and previous year. It’s easier to search and browse and you also get 24 page previews before you buy.

Dissertation.com

http://www.dissertation.com

Dissertation.com has just a few hundred dissertations and theses in its collection, but the site allows free, full-text access to the first twenty-five pages of each item.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UVa)

https://www.library.virginia.edu/libra/etds/

ERIC

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

E-Theses (from Finland)

http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/en/

EThOS

http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

Full text of theses from the British Library. This is running in beta at the moment

Le Fichier central des thèses (French dissertations in progress)

http://www.ciera.fr/ciera/fichier-central-des-theses-fct

Index to Theses

http://www.theses.com/

(Subscription database)

M.I.T. Theses

http://dspace.mit.edu/

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

http://www.ndltd.org  

NDLTD provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format.  A significant number of these resources are freely available in full-text and can be viewed online.

OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center

http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/faq.html#who-can-use

http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/  

http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/world.cgi  

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)

http://proquest.umi.com/login  

(Subscription database)

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)

http://roar.eprints.org/?action=home&country=&version=&type=theses&order=name&submit=Filter

Rutgers Electronic Theses & Dissertations (RUetd)

http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/etd/

TEL : thèses en ligne

http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/

Theses Canada Portal

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html   

Theses Canada provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection.  Access to full-text theses is available for all items published between January 1, 1998 to August 31, 2002.

Thèses de l'Université de Lyon 2

http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/

TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network

http://www.tren.com

TREN provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers.  Items can then be purchased through this site.  The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.

University of Miami Electronic Theses & Dissertations

http://etd.library.miami.edu/

Vidyanidhi: Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal (from India)

http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/