Research Guides: Doctor of Educational Leadership (Ed.D.): Dissertation Databases

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
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Open Access Dissertation Databases

American Doctoral Dissertations
Digitized index of nearly 100,000 dissertations from 1933 to 1955.
Naval Postgraduate School Thesis and Dissertation Collection
Includes publicly accessible NPS Theses, Dissertations, MBA Professional Reports, Joint Applied Projects and other NPS degree-earning written works. Note: This collection is also available in the Homeland Security Digital Library database.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

International Dissertations & Theses Websites

Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertacoes
Search tool for accessing electronic dissertations and these produced in Brazilian universities. Available only in Portuguese.
Dissonline
Since July 1998 the German National Library has collected online dissertations and post-doctoral thesis. Available only in German.
Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS)
Access to the full text of electronically over 350000 doctoral theses from the United Kingdom.
Latin America Cybertesis
Portal for accessing full text electronic dissertations and theses from several Latin American countries. Available only in Spanish.
Memoire Online
Full text dissertations completed at African and French universities. Available only in French.
National ETD Portal
Provides access to electronic dissertations and theses produced in South Africa.
National Library of Australia - Trove
Free repository of Australian books, images, historic newspapers. maps, music, archives and more, including almost a million Australian theses. Use the Advanced Search to limit to theses.
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
Thousands of journal articles, conference papers, and thesis and dissertations distributed by several Portuguese repositories. Available only Portuguese.
Theses Canada
Acquires and preserves a comprehensive collection of electronic and microfiche Canadian theses.
Theses malgaches en ligne
Theses and dissertations from public universities in Madagascar, available in html or PDF format. Available only in French.