Research Guides: Resource Guide for English Graduate Students: Theses / Dissertations

Primary Resources in the Archives

The following resources will help you as you plan to visit archives whether abroad or in the states.

Primary Resources (Visiting the Archives)
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This guide provides a short introduction to primary sources and where to find them. It also offers some tips for preparing for a research trip to a library or archives.
Archive Grid
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Connects you with primary source material held in archives, special collections, and manuscript collections around the world. ArchiveGrid also helps researchers contact archives to request information, arrange a visit, and order copies.

DART-Europe.
"DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses."
EthOS: Electronic Theses Online Service.
British Library.
Theses in the United Kingdom.
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Find online theses and dissertations contributed by member institutions.
Theses Canada.
Library and Archives Canada.

ETD: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Vanderbilt)
Many recent dissertations are available online. This site also includes information for ETD authors and submission guidelines.

Dissertations & Theses Full Text This link opens in a new window
Dissertations and theses from around the world in business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, science & technology, social sciences, and the arts. Includes Vanderbilt University dissertations and theses.
Coverage: 1743-present.

College and Research Libraries (CRL)
CRL collects dissertations at the doctoral level and higher from countries other than the U.S. and Canada. CRL will attempt to acquire foreign dissertations which it does not already own for interlibrary loan at no charge to you.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, 1920- (ABELL) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographical listing of monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations about English language, literature, and culture published anywhere in the world. Literature: poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory, and studies of individual writers. English culture: custom, belief, narrative, song, dance, and material culture.
Coverage: 1920 to present.

A Guide to Theses and Dissertations: an Annotated International Bibliography of Bibliographies.

Detroit: Gale Research Co., [1975].
CENTRAL LIBRARY
STACKS Z5053 .R49

Guide to doctoral dissertations in Victorian literature, 1886-1958

Urbana, University of Illinois Press, [1975].
CENTRAL LIBRARY
ANNEX Z5053 .R49

Dissertations on Anglo-Irish drama; a bibliography of studies, 1870-1970

Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield [1973]
CENTRAL LIBRARY
STACKS Z2039.D7 M54

Southern literary culture : a bibliography of masters' and doctors' theses

Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press [1979]
CENTRAL LIBRARY
STACKS Z1251.S7 C3 1979