Virtual references

Australian Digital Theses Program
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.

DiVA-Portal: Academic Archive On-line
DiVA, the Digital Scientific Archive (DigitalaVetenskapligaArkivet in Swedish) is a comprehensive description of a system developed at Uppsala University Library. A repository where the documents are archived is one part of the system.

In DiVA one can find theses, dissertations and other publications in full-text from a number of Nordic universities. The DiVA system has been developed within the framework of the DiVA project which started in September 2000. The system is in full operation since January 2003.

E-thesis
This site contains doctoral dissertations and other publications from the University of Helsinki. All of these full-text publications are freely accessible via the Internet.

Ethos (Electronic Theses Online Service)
Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOSnet) project is part of JISC's (Joint Information Systems Committee) Start-up and Enhancement (SUE) Programme. EThOS aims to enable end-users to access the full text of electronically stored UK theses, in secure format, via a single Web interface.

INFLIBNET's National Online Union Catalogue of Doctoral Theses
This union database covers the bibliographic Metadata of Doctoral Theses submitted to more than 130 Universities/ Institutes in India. It has over 1,53,206 unique records from all subject areas. This Data is contributed by participating Universities under the INFLIBNET programme.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.

This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to NDLTD and ETDs.

OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
The OhioLINK ETD Center is a free, online database of Ohio's masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted.

PQDT Open
PQDT Open is an online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The full text-in PDF format-of each open access graduate work is available to any researcher for free. The authors themselves have opted to publish their dissertation or thesis as open access. Open Access publishing is a new service offered by UMI Dissertation Publishing.