Finding UNSW theses

UNSW PhD or Masters by Research theses can be located via UNSWorks. For honours theses, contact the UNSW faculty, school or the author directly.

For more information on rights of use and removing material in UNSWorks see Copyright - UNSWorks.

Finding Australian and international theses

Australian Theses

Library collection
To find UNSW Library’s collection of Australian and international theses in print, search Library collection for a title or keywords. Refine your results by selecting Refine my results > Resource types > Dissertations in the column on the left.

Trove - Australian print and digital theses
Trove includes theses at all levels, including PhD, masters and honours. To limit your search to Australian theses only, use Trove - Research & Reports search. Tick the Australian content box. Next to format select Thesis from the drop-down list.

International theses

BASE
BASE academic search engine provides access to the repositories of 8,000 institutions. 60% of the full-text documents are open access.

CORE
CORE aggregates open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide.

DART-Europe e-theses portal
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia working to improve global access to European research theses.

EBSCO open dissertations
Includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations in addition to theses and dissertations from around the world. Coverage from 1955.

Open access theses and dissertations
OATD provides access to open access graduate theses from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. This index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

Theses Canada
Theses and dissertations in the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collection.

NZ Research.org.nz
Gathers information about documents stored in research repositories from around New Zealand and assembles them in one database. Search open access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics and other institutions in New Zealand at this site. Select Thesis from the Browse by Type menu on the search page. Includes doctoral and masters theses.

Web of Science - ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
The Web of Science ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index is a curated collection of multi-disciplinary, international dissertations and theses, including over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities. To search for thesis citations, change the search from Web of Science Core Collection to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index.

Note: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses can be searched at no cost. Researchers can purchase individual theses using a credit card. Beware of paying for theses that are available for free electronically.

Worldcat
An international database of library collections. When searching, select the Thesis/Dissertation option form the format list.

Obtaining theses

Many non-UNSW theses are available to download via the open access institutional repositories listed above. Beware of paying for theses that are available for free electronically.

• Some print copies are available for loan and can be accessed via the interlibrary loan service.
  
• Theses held in closed collections of other libraries and not available for download or loan cannot be accessed via the interlibrary loan service.
• Conditions of access to a thesis are determined by the author and holding library, and are outside the control of UNSW Library.
• Contact the owning library or institution directly to enquire about purchasing a thesis.