WHERE TO FIND THE FREE, FULL TEXT OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS:

Theses and Dissertation Research (for complete, free, full text of dissertations and theses and
specialized research studies):
eTheses around the world are listed in Open Source Registries here: http://roar.eprints.org/view/type/theses.html
ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations : http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/5534
Virginia Tech Doctoral Dissertations : http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/11041
Virginia Tech Masters' Theses: http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/9291
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH): many full text studies here, including articles published by Harvard
Professors: http://dash.harvard.edu
Thematic Areas in the GOAP [UNESCO] SITE: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-

information/portals-and-platforms/goap/thematic-areas/ (Includes Sciences, Social Sciences, Medical Sciences,

and others)
Thesis and Dissertations from the University of Maryland: http://www.lib.umd.edu/drum
Thesis and Dissertations from MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] http://dspace.mit.edu
Library of Congress Theses and Dissertations Resources. The Library of Congress has compiled an annotated list of
theses and dissertations databases from around the world. Coverage includes the Theses Canada Portal, where you can
search for theses and dissertations in the National Library of Canada.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/education/theses.html
Theses from Canada: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html
Theses and Dissertations from the University of Toronto, in Canada:
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/9944
(full text of selected graduate theses and dissertations from the University of Toronto, in Canada)
Theses from Cornell University: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/39
University of Kansas Scholar Works: http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/
Includes KU Theses and Dissertations.
University of Michigans Deep Blue Project with access to Dissertations and Theses:
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/community-list AND: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/39366

University of Pennsylvanias Publicly Available Dissertations and Theses:

http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/
Other listings of universities offering free access to dissertations and theses as well as their digital repositories may be found in
OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=North%20America
The complete listing by country may be found here: http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php
NEW CUSTOM GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE COVERING ALL THESE SITES MAY BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3A-f5tlirivsw

WRITING THE DISSERTATION PROPOSAL: HOW TO GUIDES (ESPECIALLY USEFUL FOR

GRADUATE STUDENTS :)
How to write and defend your dissertation proposal: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/hisham/Documents/DissProposal.pdf
Writing the Dissertation Proposal: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/hisham/Documents/DissProposal.pdf
Dissertation Proposal Tips: http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~strohman/proposal-tips.html

A FEW OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS, ALL IN FULL TEXT:

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org (As of August 2012, over 8020 journals are covered,
with over 837,000 total articles in this database, according to their web site.)
SSRN: Social Sciences Research Network http://wwww.ssrn.com (one does need to register to search the sites
elibrary, but registration is free and can be completed in just seconds.) 439,000 articles all in full text included.
Sample Journals indexed in the Public Knowledge Project Database: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-journals (Note also their
Publication section: http://pkp.sfu.ca/publications)
E-Journals in various subject areas: http://ejw.i8.com (An ongoing project of Emporia State University in Kansas.)
Links to the Worlds Electronic Journals: http://www.e-journals.org/
Gateway for free electronic Journals: http://www.icast.org.in/ejournal/ejournal.php
JOURNAL Table of Contents Service: JOURNAL TOCs: The latest tables of contents from thousands of scholarly
journals: Search the latest Table of Contents (TOCs): more journals are continuously added. According the web site
(January, 2012) over 17,000 journals are covered from over 900 publishers, including 3100 Open Access Journals. This
is a great source for students, librarians, and anyone wanting awareness of the latest scholarly articles
http://journaltocs.hw.ac.uk
Open Humanities Press Consortium: Includes Open Access Books and Journals in the Humanities:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/
Free Books in Full Text from the University of California Press: http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks//search?browsetitle=aa;rights=Public;sort=title;style=eschol;brand=eschol

E-Scholarship at the University of California has open access journals which may be searched:
http://escholarship.org/uc/search?smode=browse;browse-journal=yes
The Advanced Search Feature may be found here: http://escholarship.org/help_tools.html#advancedSearch
BONUS SITE: The Annenberg Foundation Web Site has the latest Education Videos that explain concepts to learners
of all ages. http://www.learner.org (Great for Teachers and Students!)
NEW CUSTOM GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE COVERING ALL THESE SITES MAY BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3A-f5tlirivsw

2012 MAJOR OPEN ACCESS DATABASES:

DOAJ: DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS: www.doaj.org
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK: www.SSRN.com

OAISTER: http://oaister.worldcat.org

Global Open Access Portal, from UNESCO:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/
Funded by the governments of Colombia, Denmark, and Norway, and the U.S. State Department, Global
Open Access Portal (GOAP) provides a regional overview of open access (OA) developments in 150-plus
countries divided into five regions: Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America,
and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Other Open Access sites include the Registry of Open Access Repositories http://roarmap.eprints.org/, and
a partial list of repositories, listed by broad subject area under Thematic Areas, from OpenDOAR: The
Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/
and OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook http://www.openoasis.org/
List of Open Access Repositories by geographic region in DOAR are found here:
http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php
Thematic Areas in the GOAP [UNESCO] SITE: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-andinformation/portals-and-platforms/goap/thematic-areas/ (Includes Sciences, Social Sciences, Medical
Sciences, and others)
eTheses and Dissertations around the world are listed here:
http://roar.eprints.org/view/type/theses.html
OTHER SITES FOR FREE e-THESES AND e-DISSERTATIONS:
DiAccess to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH): many full text studies here, including articles published by
Harvard Professors: http://dash.harvard.edu
TTThesis and Dissertations from the University of Maryland: http://www.lib.umd.edu/drum
Thesis and Dissertations from MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] http://dspace.mit.edu
University of Pennsylvanias Publicly Available Dissertations and Theses:
http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/
University of Wisconsins Dissertation, Theses and Specialized Research Studies: https://minds.wisconsin.edu
(Covers the entire U Wisconsin System)

Theses and Dissertations from the University of Toronto, in Canada:

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/9944
Theses from Cornell University: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/39
University of Kansas Scholar Works: http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/ Includes KU Theses and
Dissertations
University of Michigans Deep Blue Project with free access to full-text Dissertations and Theses:

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/community-list
AND: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/39366
A new
SEARCH ENGINE: A new Customized Google Search Engine covering these electronic theses and
Dissertations may be found here: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3Af5tlirivsw
eJournals are listed here: http://roar.eprints.org/view/type/journal.html
for e-Journals, also consult DOAJ at www.doaj.org
Repository Types in the ROAR [the Registry of Open Access Repositories] Database are listed here:
http://roar.eprints.org/view/type/
E-LIS: THE OPEN ARCHIVE FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE:
http://eprints.rclis.org/
E-SCHOLARSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA has Open Access journals which may
be searched: http://escholarship.org/uc/search?smode=browse;browse-journal=yes
AN ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM
ESCHOLARSHIP INITATIVE may be found here:
http://escholarship.org/help_tools.html#advancedSearch
ADDING RSS FEEDS for the e-Scholarship Initiative in California to a Reader, such as NETVIBES:
Under HOME> AUTHORS> BROWSE>RECENTLY ADDED you can sign up for RSS FEEDS for the
LATEST PUBLICATIONS noted in this e-SCHOALRSHIP INITIATIVE.
BOOKS:
BOOKS: DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS:
http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&uiLanguage=en
BROWSE BY SUBJECT HERE: http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=subject&uiLanguage=en
OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS CONSORTIUM: Includes Open Access Books and Journals in the Humanities:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/

SUBJECT LISTING OF ALL PUBLIC TITLES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

PRESS E-SCHOLARSHIP EDITIONS:
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?facet=subject;rights=Public;style=eschol;brand=eschol
FREE ONLINE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL FIELDS:
http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/open_textbooks
ONLINE BOOKS: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
A searchable and browseable collection of over 40,000 English language works that are all free for personal,
noncommercial use. One can search these collections by Author and Title.

+ DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS: http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&uiLanguage=en

+ FREE TECH BOOKS: http://freetechbooks.com and + SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE (FREE):
http://sciencebooksonline.info/ Science Books Online is a directory of free ebooks for all areas of science.
+ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA INITIATIVE OF OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

+DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS: http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=subject&uiLanguage=en

+SUBJECT LISTING OF ALL PUBLIC TITLES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS ESCHOLARSHIP EDITIONS:
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?facet=subject;rights=Public;style=eschol;brand=eschol
+ FLATWORLD KNOWLEDGE: Publisher offering free, open access textbooks, primarily in Business, but in other
subjects as well: www.flatworldknowledge.com
+ TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION: http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page

urnaltocs.hw.ac.uk/ http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/
Compiled by IRO STEPHEN PERRY, U.S. EMBASSY ACCRA
EMAIL: PerrySX2@state.gov
Compiled August 12, 2012 (all links work as of this date)