Oxford LibGuides: Caribbean Studies: Theses

Theses & dissertations in the Bodleian Libraries

The Bodleian Latin American Centre Library holds the best MPhil thesis and the best MSc essay for each year of Latin American Centre students since 2014. Essays for the MSc Public Policy degree submitted between 1986 and 2009 are also available for consultation. They are not searchable via SOLO but a full list is available as PDF. More information about theses can be found on the website.

The Bodleian Library is the main repository for Caribbean studies D. Phil theses. Contact the Library for comprehensive lists of theses from 1920 to 2000. Search SOLO, Oxford Libraries' catalogue, for more recent holdings from 1994 onwards.

More information about theses can be found here.

Theses & dissertations beyond Oxford

EThOs
service from the British Library also contains information about UK theses and there is increasing availability of full-text downloads, which are available once a library or individual has paid for digitization.
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
provides access to over 380,000 open access research theses from 528 Universities in 27 European countries.
RIAN
is a portal of open access research publications from seven Irish university libraries. Searches can be filtered to masters' and doctoral theses.

Other useful gates to access to Caribbean Thesis are:

Remote access

Ways to access subscription resources off campus:

Single Sign-On (SSO). Sign on to SOLO or your University email and your browser retains the sign on. This allows you to access most e-resources as if you were on campus.
VPN (Virtual Private Network). Register with OUCS to log on to the network via VPN. Once logged on you can access all e-resources as if you were on campus.

For further information see the Bodleian Libraries remote access guide.

Key resources

EThOs
EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)
established in 2007 as a permanent and secure online archive of research materials produced by members of the University of Oxford. It is also is the home of Oxford digital theses.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Alternative names: PQDT; PQDTGlobal; ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global

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 content from PQDT UK & Ireland (aka Index to Theses).

More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.

Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.

DART Europe

DART Europe
provides access to over 380,000 open access research theses from 528 Universities in 27 European countries.