Education Research PreK-12 Guide

This database provides full text PDFs of most U.S. dissertations from 1997 on, many earlier works and some from outside the U.S. plus some master's theses. Also lists all dissertations and theses from 1861 on from US universities and some works from Europe and Asia from 1637 on. Abstracts included after July, 1980. UVA dissertations prior to 2014 are included full text. See the VIRGO link below to access UVA dissertations full text that were defended from December 2014 - present.

All UVA dissertations for all years are now available on VIRGO. Most are full text and some are embargoed for several years, but will be available on the date designated in VIRGO.

Prior to 2014, UVA dissertations were put into Dissertations & Thesis Global database by Proquest described in the section above VIRGO. After that, doctoral candidates upload their UVA dissertations into Libra, UVA's institutional repository and then they are available full text in VIRGO.

Starting no later than December 2015

The approximately five million newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other resources held by CRL support research and teaching. CRL acquisitions include materials from all world regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. UVA is a member!

EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.

You can use Google (NOT Google Scholar) to locate dissertations as some universities are putting their dissertations in a repository, so Google locates them. Many of them will be open access and most will be full text. Try a keyword search such as:
preschool and quality and teachers and dissertation

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

OCLC WorldCat lists most dissertations for most colleges and universities in the United States and Canada and a great many from around the world. If you know the author's name or dissertation title, this is a solid resource.

OpenThesis.org is a searchable thesis & dissertation database, which helps increase the availability and utility of these important documents.

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions.

Theses Canada was launched in 1965 at the request of is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 universities accredited by Universities Canada.

Trove is a free repository of Australian material, including almost a million Australian theses.