Online dissertations are to be consulted under :

It references all the dissertations that had been defended at Swiss universities between 1897 and 1991.
Since 1992 references of this bibliography are found in Helveticat (Expert search: prod:jsh). The older Swiss dissertations can be found in Helveticat by means of the keyword “thesis” and its equivalents in other languages (Expert search: aw:thesis + aw:diss + aw:these + aw:tesi).

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printed version JA 016.015075 JAH (1897-1991): free access in the Reading Room (level 1).
Stack item: Call number BP 82

It references all the dissertations held at the university library of Basle until 1980. It is the digitized version of the old card catalogue. Search by author only.
Theses as from 1981 are indexed in the IDS-catalogue.

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This catalogue references all dissertations published at the University of Bern between 1864 and 2000 and held at the University library of Bern.
The search results appear in short form, without indication of the call number. Only reproductions can be ordered.

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This international database named Dissertation abstracts lists American and Canadian dissertations as well as some Swiss dissertations.
Since 1980 abstracts are online, since 1990 even a preview of the 24 first pages is available.
A copy (web download, paper copy or microfilm) can be ordered online

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This database references all dissertations and theses held in Austrian Universities and Universities of Applied Science.
It is a service offered by the Austrian library network and Service GmbH. Actually it includes 95’000 documents. Some papers are online available, for others it exists only an abstract or a table of content

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This online catalogue (Barton) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lists all the dissertations held at this University. It is not possible to order the originals by interlibrary loan but their reproductions.

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This library owns the total of French dissertations in medicine and dental surgery.
Its online catalogue references dissertations published since 1985 that are about 165’000 documents.

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Union catalogue of the French university libraries, developped by Abes (Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur). The online catalogue (PICA system) contains about 9 million bibliographical entries produced by 3400 libraries. All French dissertations can be found.
Simple, advanced and searches by subject are available. To show the libraries who own the document you have to click on “localisation”.

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