The section Academic Joy – Theses Repositories is a part of a portal with several links sections for academic theses in open access repositories all over the world. Academic Joy is a portal for Ph.D. students. You can choose repositories from a general overview or navigate maps for Europe, Asia, Africa, the United States of America and Canada. The lists are fairly exhaustive but sometimes repositories have not been included. The list here below gives an overview of the some of the most important repositories with the widest coverage. A number of missing repositories in Belgium and The Netherlands are indicated below.
- Open Archives Initiative (OAIster)
- DART Theses – Europe
- DIVA – theses from 26 Scandinavian universities
- Österreichische Dissertationsdatenbank – Austria
- ETHOS – United Kingdom – a service of the British Library
- Thèses – France
- Dissonline – Germany
- Bictel – Belgium (French)
- NARCIS – Netherlands
- Theses Canada – a directory and repository
- TROVE – the portal of the Australian National Library can be tuned, too, to find theses
- New Zealand Educational Theses Database
Some repositories focus on history:
- American Historical Association: History Dissertations – a directory to theses
- Swiss Ph.D. dissertations and M.A. theses in history
Some directories will guide you to theses:
- Center for Research Libraries: Dissertations
- NDTLD Directory – a service of NDTLD
Belgium and The Netherlands
For Belgium one can consult M.A. theses in Flemish at Ethesis and Flemish B.A. theses in the Vlaamse Scriptiebank; both websites have an interface in Dutch and English. For the Netherlands one can add Scripties van de Nederlandse Universiteiten for M.A. theses, and the Igitur Archive for Ph.D. and M.A. theses defended at Utrecht University. B.A. and M.A. theses written at Dutch Higher Education institutions can be retrieved from the HBO Kennisbank. The Dutch term for the First World War is Eerste Wereldoorlog.
