ISGuides: EGIS (Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society): What does a literature review look like?

Example Dissertations

EGIS dissertations

Example Theses

EGIS PhD Theses

Systematic review examples

For examples of systematic reviews see:

Medicine/healthcare

Cochrane Library The 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 Collaboration The 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 Evidence The Environmental Evidence Library of Evidence Syntheses contains all systematic reviews and systematic maps that have been approved by CEE.

Other UK theses and dissertations

EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) This link opens in a new window
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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.
ProQuest: Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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
Construction Management Abstracts (ARCOM) This link opens in a new window
Provided by Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM).

Sources:
Indexes 22 leading construction management journals, ARCOM Conference Proceedings and PhD theses.

Coverage:
1960 to present.

Subject Coverage:
Architectural engineering, Building, Design management, Engineering, Design and technology, Construction education, Construction management and economics, Construction marketing, Construction procurement, Financial management, Real estate

Full text:
Abstracts only. Use Discovery to check for full-text. Where no full-text is available, you may be able to apply for Inter-Library Loan (ILL).

Non UK theses and dissertations

Australasian Theses This link opens in a new window Australian theses are available via the National Library of Australia's Trove service. Help on searching Trove for theses is available on their website.
Construction Management Abstracts (ARCOM) This link opens in a new window Provided by Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM). Sources: Indexes 22 leading construction management journals, ARCOM Conference Proceedings and PhD theses. Coverage: 1960 to present. Subject Coverage: Architectural engineering, Building, Design management, Engineering, Design and technology, Construction education, Construction management and economics, Construction marketing, Construction procurement, Financial management, Real estate Full text: Abstracts only. Use Discovery to check for full-text. Where no full-text is available, you may be able to apply for Inter-Library Loan (ILL).
DART-Europe This link opens in a new window Access 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.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) This link opens in a new window International archive of information about theses and dissertations, with some links to full text theses.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window Search engine for over six million online postgraduate theses.
ProQuest: Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window 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
Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window Full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations.