Law Graduate Student Resources

Electronic Theses and Dissertations by UVic scholars; Master and PhD levels. Browse by Faculty / Department , author, or supervisor.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses includes more than 1.5 million citations to both master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. written by authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities beginning with the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861. Abstracts are included for dissertations written after 1980 and for theses written after 1988.

Open Access Dissertations and Thesis provided to Proquest

The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The theses will be available worldwide via the web. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community.

Electronic Thesis Online

Access to 458723 open access research theses from 551 Universities in 28 European countries

Global ETD Search – developed in partnership with the University of Cape Town, South Africa – is a free service that allows researchers to find ETDs based on keyword, date, institution, language and subject. Researchers may submit queries and view results using the familiar style of popular Web search engines. This new search service will allow researchers to locate relevant theses and dissertations far more effectively than current tools.

Global ETD Search is based on a growing collection of approximately 4 million ETDs from more than 200 universities on all continents. Metadata records are automatically collected daily from individual institutions and consortia. These records form the basis of the search service. Once researchers have located the ETDs of interest, they are able to access the original documents from the originating institutions.