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SUDOC: An online catalog to holdings at French academic libraries, SUDOC covers theses completed in France since 1972 (for Humanities and Social Sciences). Can be searched by author, title, subject, keyword, and abstract. The "Recherche avancée" option lets you limit the type of [publication being searched to "Thèses".
Serveur de Thèses Multidisciplinaire / Multidisciplinary Theses Server: Still limited in content, but provides access to the full text of mostly French dissertations.
Cybertheses: Provides full text access to French language theses, including from Canada and other countries publishing French language theses.
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than 1.7 million of these titles is available to order in paper and microform formats, for a fee. As Hopkins patrons, you have on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward. Simply fill in the order forms and the full text of the dissertation will be available to you online free of charge
Foreign Doctoral Dissertations, from the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. So far, 70,000 out of 750,000 are cataloged. The Center receives on deposit theses from a number of foreign universities and will also order on request titles that are not already held. The Center's Database provides access to records for some titles, but since many are still uncataloged, not finding a title does not indicate that it is not held at CRL.
Printed Catalogues of Dissertations(these will usually treat a particular subject, time period, or institution) : You can locate printed catalogues of dissertations easily in theonline catalog . Or in:
For either database, do a Subject Keyword search on: Dissertations France bibliography.
Access to Dissertations
The Library does not purchase many dissertations from other institutions. However, many are available through InterLibrary Services. U.S. dissertations can often be borrowed from the institutions where they were written, or from another library that has purchased a copy.
Remember that U.S. dissertations written since 1997 are available for free download from Digital Dissertations (link above).
Information on obtaining French theses from France is available at ABES. (Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur).
If you would like the Library to purchase a dissertation, contact the Librarian for the Department.
