Library Guides: Finding Theses and Dissertations: Finding Theses and Dissertations From Other Institutions

Interlibrary Loan

Use Interlibrary Loan to request a PDF of an article that isn't available at Lehigh or a scanned PDF of a print article that Lehigh owns. You will get an email when the article is ready for download.

Academia.edu

Academia.edu is a non-profit social networking site for academics.
Many open access papers and links to the theses and dissertations included.

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Databases

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from North America and the UK, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Includes abstracts for most documents and full-text for about half of the database, weighted toward more recent years. Global coverage note: also covers Europe less comprehensively, and many Chinese universities after 2017. Coverage of other countries and non-English language documents is limited.
America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Historical research about the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Full text access for all key English-language historical journals, also includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Also includes book and media reviews and abstracts of dissertations.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index for education research. Contains scholarly journals, popular materials, reports, and other resources.
Maintained by the US Department of Education. This version of the database is connected to Lehigh Links.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Geosciences database covering journals, books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations. Has "GeoRef in Process", which includes references possibly not yet indexed or finalized.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers publications including periodicals, book reviews, dissertations about the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America). Some full text available.
Covers materials published from 1971 to present.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography, described below, plus full text from more than 1000 journals. Covers topics in literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
It includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which provides full information on more than 4,000 journals and series from 1926 to the present.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database of scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. PsycINFO covers journals, books, reviews, and dissertations.
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
Major resource for chemistry research. Many capabilities it provides includes searching chemical literature, plus substance, reaction, structure searching, and property searching. Set up instructions can be found here.
Sociology Collection This link opens in a new window
Sociology and social services database with access to Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index Abstracts, and the Sociology Database with full-text coverage.
Coverage from 1952 - present.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
WorldCat is a comprehensive library catalog of books and other material worldwide.
Integrated features include a link to ASA, Lehigh's Library Catalog, an interlibrary loan request form, Library of Congress Subject Headings, library holdings and powerful search options for language, place of publication, material type, etc. Includes records representing 400 languages.

NDLTD: National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
ETDs from the World
OATD: Open Access These and Dissertations
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

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Finding Theses and Dissertations: Finding Theses and Dissertations From Other Institutions

Interlibrary Loan

Academia.edu

Databases