It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.
EGIS (Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society): What does a literature review look like?
Cochrane LibraryThe Cochrane Library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), a leading resource for systematic reviews in health care.
Social Sciences and Environment
The Campbell CollaborationThe Campbell Collaboration is an international social science research network that produces high quality, open and policy-relevant evidence syntheses, plain language summaries and policy briefs.
Collaboration for Environmental EvidenceThe Environmental Evidence Library of Evidence Syntheses contains all systematic reviews and systematic maps that have been approved by CEE.
Search engine for UK research postgraduate theses from the British Library. EThOS has information about over 600,000 PhD level theses, with links to full-text if this is available online.
This database indexes masters dissertations and doctoral-level theses from countries including the UK, USA and Ireland. Many of these are available in full text.
NB UK and Irish "PhDs by publication" (i.e. PhDs awarded by the evaluation of journal articles instead of a thesis) are not included in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts.
Full-text availability: most dissertations from 1997 onwards are available as full-text. Abstracts available from July 1980 and simple bibliographic citations available for older works
Non UK theses and dissertations
Australasian ThesesAustralian theses are available via the National Library of Australia's Trove service. Help on searching Trove for theses is available on their website.
DART-EuropeThis link opens in a new windowAccess to 1,185,643 open access research theses from 575 Universities in 29 European countries.
DART-Europe was founded in 2005 as a partnership of national and university libraries and consortia to improve global access to European research theses.
ProQuest: Dissertations and Theses GlobalThis database indexes masters dissertations and doctoral-level theses from countries including the UK, USA and Ireland. Many of these are available in full text.
NB UK and Irish "PhDs by publication" (i.e. PhDs awarded by the evaluation of journal articles instead of a thesis) are not included in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts.
Full-text availability: most dissertations from 1997 onwards are available as full-text. Abstracts available from July 1980 and simple bibliographic citations available for older works
Theses Canada PortalThis link opens in a new windowFull text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations.