French Language and Literature

Provides open access to electronic theses and dissertations in worldwide repositories.

BC community members can access the CRL collection of dissertations and theses. They have strength in the area of older (19th-early 20th century) international works. You can request print works via Interlibrary Loan. CRL also has a program to digitize them and will also consider purchase of theses and dissertations not in their collection. Guide: http://www.crl.edu/collections/topics/dissertations

"Resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world"

The British Library’s open access to UK theses.

"The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)"

Canadian theses in electronic format and in print.

Find repositories by limiting to "repository type" is "e-theses" in search. To search across repositories for a particular work, choose the tab for "search content."

Search for theses and dissertations in WorldCat, a cooperative database of bibliographic records contributed by more than 60,000 libraries. Then request the item via Interlibrary Loan.

Many colleges and universities now have students deposit electronic copies of their theses or dissertations in an institutional repository. Search for these on the institution's website, or contact their library to ask.