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Thèses.fr is the search engine for French doctoral theses set up by ABES in 2011. This unique tool is supplied by the thesis-supporting institutions. It lists theses in preparation for the last 10 years in all disciplines and all institutions, as well as all theses defended since 1985.

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French dissertations and theses

There are a number of different resources available for finding French dissertations. 

• Atelier national de Reproduction des thèses Also known as tne National Center for the Reproduction of PhD theses
• SUDOC Le catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation
• Thèses en ligne (TEL): serveur de thèses multidisciplinaire Although multidisciplinary the majority of theses are in scientific disciplines.
• thèses.fr This research tool is maintained by ABES (Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur) and records titles of theses in preparation in French universities and higher education institutions

Belgian dissertations and theses

• Répertoire commun des thèses électroniques des universités de la Communauté Française de Belgique Portal to access French-language theses through relevant University repositories

General resources for dissertations and theses

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global 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).
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
• Top 100 Dissertation and theses references on the web
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Guides and documentation.

• Contractual framework of the educational exception : how to use and quote works in your thesis?
• Documentation for doctoral students (provided byAbes): understanding the national repository for doctoral theses; reporting your thesis subject; using the theses.fr search engine
• Guide to the doctorate : 23 practical sheets proposed by the National Association of Doctors (ANDès) for doctoral students, doctors, institutions, doctoral schools, etc.
• Guide to Copyright (2017) : this guide deals with legal issues arising in intellectual property law .
• Open Science - Codes and software : this booklet looks at the specific issues involved in opening up the codes and software produced and used in scientific research. 
• Sharing scientific publication data - A guide for researchers : the aim of this guide is to familiarize researchers with the steps involved in sharing publication data.
• Carnet Questions éthique et droit en SHS : a guide to good ethical and legal practice in the dissemination of SHS data.

French doctoral schools

• Campus France directory of doctoral schools : consult the list of doctoral schools
• Campus France : finding a research laboratory
• ScanR : consult the directory of French research and innovation

Doctors and PhD students

• Ma thèse en 180 secondes : organised in France since 2014 by the CNRS and the CPU - Conférence des présidents d'université, this competition, inspired by the 3 Minute Thesis launched by the University of Queensmand (Australia), aims to make people understand their research in three minutes and to the greatest number.
• MESR - doctorate
• MESR - doctoral training
• MESR - doctoral funding
• MESR - professional integration of doctoral students
• ANDès - National Association of Doctors
• Campus France - French agency for the promotion of higher education, hospitality and international mobility
• CGE - Conférence des Grandes écoles - "publications" section  
• CJC - Confederation of Young Researchers   
• Kastler Foundation  
• ABG – Association Bernard Gregory
• HCERES - High Council for Research and Higher Education

Search for a thesis

• An extraction of all data relating to doctoral theses defended since 1985 is available online at data.gouv.fr: https: //www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/theses-soutenues-en-france-depuis-1985/  
• Catalogue Sudoc : national bibliography of theses. Consult the help page dedicated to thesis research in the Sudoc

Access the full text of the theses

Numerous open archives and distribution platforms have been set up by doctoral-accredited institutions and/or IST operators such as CCSD (Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

• HAL theses : open archive managed by the CCSD for the open access distribution of doctoral theses
• AURORE : platform for student work at the University of Limoges (doctoral theses, practice theses, dissertations)
• CITHER : INSA Lyon thesis portal
• ENS - Institut Français de l'Éducation : portal to theses defended in France since 2003 in the fields of education and training.
• OATAO : Open Archive Toulouse Archive Ouverte
• PASTEL : ParisTech online theses / HAL ParisTech portal collection
• PEPITE : the University of Lille's institutional archive provides access to doctoral theses, practice theses, teaching resources and speech therapy dissertations.

On the international scene

• ADT : theses defended in the 22 largest Australian universities
• BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: meta-search engine referencing and providing access to over 120 million full-text academic documents, including theses 
• BICTEL : common directory of electronic theses of the universities of the French community of Belgium
• DART-Europe : full-text theses from 28 European countries
• Dialnet : portal of Spanish theses in SHS
• DissOnline : Database of German electronic theses
• DIVA : database of theses and research papers from 28 Scandinavian universities
• EThOS : UK electronic theses database
• NDLTD : Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• OATD : Open Access Theses and Dissertations , a portal set up by the library of Wake Forest University (USA), which harvests several international directories of electronic theses in open access
• RERODOC : electronic library of the RERO network (network of French-speaking Switzerland) including books, theses, dissertations in full text
• Shodhganga : reservoir of Indian theses.
• Teseo : catalogue of doctoral theses defended in Spanish universities
• Theses Canada : catalog of theses and dissertations produced in Canadian universities
• Toubk@l : national catalogue of theses and dissertations of Morocco

Access to current thesis topics

• Otrohati : reporting on theses being prepared in Moroccan doctoral study centres.
• theses.fr : listing of theses being prepared in French higher education institutions.

Buy a reproduced thesis

From 1986 to 2016, theses deposited in printed form were reproduced on microfiche by the ANRT - Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses . The mission of the ANRT was initially to ensure the reproduction of theses on microfiche and their distribution to institutions. Following the decree of 25 May 2016 , which established the transition to electronic filing for all French doctoral theses, the ANRT ceased this national mission.

On the other hand, the ANRT offers the "Thèse à la carte" service : theses for which a contract has been signed between the ANRT and the author are digitised and reproduced in their entirety, without reworking. These theses are listed in the "Thèse à la carte" catalogue and are available for sale to individuals (teachers, researchers, students ....) and/or organisations (bookshops, libraries, etc.) who request them.

• Arabesques n°78 (April-May-June 2015): Dossier "The thesis in all its states: filing, reporting, promoting". 
• Valorization of academic production - Collection, conservation, dissemination - Mennessier Anne-Laurence ; Daubernat Séverine ; Giloux Marianne ; Mauger Perez Isabelle - BBF, 2011, n°1 
• New thesis repository, new positioning for libraries? - Feedback from the common documentation services of Lille 2 and Valenciennes - Bihan Solenn ; Cambier-Meerschman Perrine ; Granger Sabrina - BBF, 2011, n°1

Studies and reports

• L'état de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche en France (The state of higher education and research in France ) - annual figures published by the MESR (Ministry of Higher Education and Research)
• The French Open Science Barometer - annual statistical monitoring of French doctoral theses available in open access.
• A more favourable integration and employment conditions of PhDs for 2016 graduates compared to 2014 graduates - Note d'information du SIES (September 2021)
• Doctors of engineering: the choice of a professional insertion in the private sector - Note d'information du SIES (September 2020)
• The doctorate in France: from choice to career pursuit - report by the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (July 2020)
• International mobility of young employed PhDs - Note d'information du SIES (October 2019)
• L'état de l'emploi scientifique en France - biennial statistical publication by MESRI (2018 edition)
• Repères et références statistiques - MESR annual publication
• CIFRE PhD - article by Romain Perronnet (UPEC) and Nahla Salameh Bchara (École des Mines de Saint-Etienne)
• Young doctors; profile, career path, integration - APEC quantitative study (January 2015)
• The professional future of young PhDs: what path, what insertion 5 years after the thesis ? - qualitative study by APEC (October 2014)  
• The University and the professional world: what are the challenges for the doctorate? - Labex Hastec conference (January 2013) 
• Doctors: a long march towards stable employment

History of the doctorate and the deposit of theses

• Becoming scholars: theses and doctorates of letters in the 19th century: virtual exhibition
• Carnet Es lettres - Les thèses de doctorat ès lettres en France au XIXe siècle : this notebook contains posts and actions linked to the "Es lettres" project, whose aim is to study the corpus of doctoral theses in literature defended in the 19th century.
• Theses and other academic writings: identification and location: despite some obsolete information, this guide published by the BnF in 2005, contains interesting information on the history of the doctorate as well as a chronology of legislative texts on the deposit of theses from 1923 to 1985
• Françoise Huguet, Les thèses de doctorat ès lettres soutenues en France de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à 1940 (Doctor of Letters theses defended in France from the end of the 18th century to 1940 ), November 2009 - LARHRA - Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes, UMR CNRS 5190 - online
•  Edouard Des Places, Cent cinquante ans du doctorat es lettres (1810-1960), Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé , 4e série, 2, juin 1969, p.209-228 - online

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Access to Dissertations

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Includes more than 2 million entries.The single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
• EBSCO Open Dissertations
• Interlibrary Loan the Library does not routinely purchase dissertations from other institutions. However, many are available through InterLibrary Services. Search in WorldCat for easiest ordering.
• Request a purchase for the library If you would like the Library to purchase a dissertation, contact the Librarian for the Department.

BNF : thèses et écrits académiques.

Système Universitaire de Documentation (SUDOC): l'ensemble des thèses produites en France.

ABES Thèses . Accès à près de 6000 thèses de doctorat soutenues depuis 2006, de surcroît en texte intégral pour 4000 d’entre elles.

TEL (thèses-en-ligne) a pour objectif de promouvoir l'auto-archivage en ligne des thèses.

Cyberthèses : L'Université Lyon 2

Archive ouverte de l'Université de Lorraine

Helveticat . The Swiss National Library has a copy of all dissertations written in the country. Add the word “diss” to your search terms in order to retrieve dissertations.

EthOs : British Library dissertations

Buy Your Own

As a last resort, you can purchase dissertations directly.

Dissertation Express : US, from ProQuest

• Verify using the tools listed above that the document is not otherwise available to you free before ordering.
• If Interlibrary Loan can't locate a copy to borrow.
• Use a credit card or fax payment.
• Orders are shipped directly to you.

Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses: in France

• All doctoral students deposit a copy with the "Atelier national de reproduction des thèses".
• Who in turn provides microfilms for libraries.
• And also paper copies on demand (you can pay by bank card).

Submitting your dissertation

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Open-access resources.

• French Collections at the Library of Congress
• Digital & Special Collections
• Bande Dessinée: Comics & Graphic Novels
• Prix Goncourt: English Translations
• Prix Femina: English Translations
• Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire
• Award-Winning Authors in English Translation
• Women Recipients of French Literary Prizes
• The Maghreb & the Middle East
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• Contemporary Issues in France
• Fashion & French Women's Press
• Newspapers, Journals & Magazines
• Subscription Databases
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• European Reading Room
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Searchable online databases provide full-text access to both current and historical content. Some databases are freely available and others require a subscription. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these resources through your local public or academic library. The Library's open-access databases are listed below as well as external links to resources, and research guides. Research Guides are available for almost all regions of the world and for a huge variety of subjects ranging from Latinx Resources on Civil Rights to Women in the French Revolution . Researchers can search by subject, research center or keyword. When searching at the collection level guides can be sorted alphabetically, most recent, or by popularity.

Digitized books at the Library of Congress are growing daily, especially older publications that are free of copyright restrictions. Search the Library's Digital Collections using keywords and limits such as audio, prints and photographs, manuscripts, maps, music, software, newspapers or periodicals. If onsite, patrons may use our Stacks database to access thousands of titles including the antique editions of the American children's book series, Our Little Cousin. These non-fiction books were geared toward children and describe the lives of various children in different countries during different period in history. They can be windows into the stereotypes and cultural climate of the times.

The selection includes open-access scholarly resources in French studies, as well as more specific subject guides on topics such as the French student riots of 1968. For other open access resources try searching Internet Archive, HathiTrust and Gallica, the digital Library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

• Rahvusarhiiv (Estonia) Users can search across the holdings of 63 institutions with the aid of finding aids (detailed, hierarchically structured descriptions of the archival material in a specific institution's fonds and collections). Finding aids may include links to digitizations of the archival materials at the institutions' own websites. If users need to plan on-site visits to consult the original material, the Directory section--containing contact details and services offered by the different institutions--can be consulted. The directory not only includes those institutions already presenting their archival material in the Archives Portal Europe, but also other institutions from the participating countries whose content is not yet available in the portal.
• OpenEdition books: A platform inaugurated in 2013 with 1000 books in all fields of research in the HSS and in the majority of academic languages. 16,000 books will be online by 2020.

External Links to French Resources

• Archives of European Integration (AEI) External The Archive of European Integration (AEI) is a free to everyone electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification. Its focus is the post-War development, activities, and foreign relations of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Community (EC), and the European Union (EU).The AEI collects certain types of independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents. The Archive of European Integration contains papers from approximately 40 private research organizations, listed at Contributing Institutions. These documents can be found at Browse by Journals and Series and Browse by Conferences. The scanning and deposit of documents received as part of the EU Delegation collection in Washington DC was completed at the end of 2019. Beginning in 2020, virtually all new content added to the AEI will consist of papers from the private research organizations referenced above. Nevertheless, we are always on the lookout for new, relevant papers from scholars worldwide to add to the AEI. At present, the AEI contains 60868 documents.
• ARTFL French Women Writers Project External Part of UChicago's ARTFL project collecting French texts, the FWW Project is a searchable database containing full text works by French women authors from the 16th to the 20th centuries.
• ARTFL Public Databases External The following databases have been developed at ARTFL for free public use. +The ARTFL Encyclopédie, a complete on-line version of the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie with Panckoucke's 4-volume Supplément à l'Encyclopédie +L'Encyclopédie méthodique: Search the recently digitized 34 volumes of Panckoucke's 18th- and 19th-century reference work. [PhiloLogic4] +The Bibliothèque bleue de Troyes: Online collection of 252 chapbooks from the 16th to 18th centuries. [PhiloLogic4] +Les journaux de Marat: Full text edition of Jean-Paul Marat's famed French Revolutionary newspapers. [PhiloLogic4] +TOUT VOLTAIRE: Online edition of all of Voltaire’s works, aside from his correspondence. A collaboration between the ARTFL Project and the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. +Rousseau Online: PhiloLogic version of rousseauonline.ch, a digital edition of Rousseau's Collection complète des Œuvres published under a Creative Commons Licence in 2012 by infoclio.ch. [PhiloLogic4] +L'Abbé Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes - searchable full text of the 1770, 1774, and 1780 editions. +La Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique de Grimm et de Diderot.: Full text high-quality OCR edition of the 18th-century cultural newsletter, with page images. +Théâtre classique: 576 classical French theatre texts. [PhiloLogic4] +The Montaigne Project: Full text searching of Montaigne's Essais with page images from the Bordeaux Copy. +Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus: Madeleine & Georges de Scudéry's 17th-century novel. +Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopaedia: English precursor to the Encyclopédie. +Balzac. La Comédie humaine: Online critical edition with full text searching and supporting material. +Newberry French Revolution Collection +CRL Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 +The Image of France George D. McKee's index of the offical documentation of printed imagery and photographs authorized for publication in France. +Epistemon: 40 literary and poetic texts of the French Renaissance. Curated by the Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (BVH) Project at the Université François-Rabelais de Tours and hosted at ARTFL. +Les Archives Parlementaires: a chronologically-ordered edited collection of archival and published sources on the French Revolution covering the first five years of the French Revolution, from the Cahiers des états généraux of 1789 until 15 nivôse an II (4 January 1794) in collaboration with Stanford University. +Revolutionary Laws: 1788-1799 Tout d'Holbach: Online edition of most of d'Holbach’s works. A collaboration between the +ARTFL Project and the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. +Perseus under PhiloLogic: The Perseus Digital Library of Classical texts available using the PhiloLogic search engine.
• Athena External French-language titles from France and Switzerland, as well as links to texts on philosophy, science, history, economics, literature, and others.
• Belgica External Digital resources of the Royal Library of Belgium. Belgica allows for full-text searching of all of KBR's digitized collections, which include items from: Manuscripts, Contemporary printed books, Maps and plans, Rare books, Coins and medals, Music, and Prints and drawings. BelgicaPress allows users full-text searching of Belgian newspapers published between 1814 and 1970. The Belgica Periodicals portal gives users access to over 30 journals and periodicals published from 1813 to the present day, where full-text searches can be performed.
• Bibliothèque nationale de France External The National Library of France (BnF) is the repository of all French publications including books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings and manuscripts. It holds approximately 40 million items spread across several buildings. They offer a system for online reference called SINDBAD which is similar to Ask-A-Librarian. The BnF also maintains an ever growing digital collection, Gallica, which was established in 1997. The National Library of France was originally founded at the Louvre Palace in 1368, and the collections grew to over 300,000 volumes during the French Revolution since private libraries of the privileged aristocrats and clergy were seized. Napoleon took a strong interest in the Library as well and populated it with many of the spoils from his conquests (that were eventually returned).
• BnF Catalogue Collectif de France External Product of a nationwide digitization project by the French Ministers of Culture and National Education and the Bibliotheque nationale de France, the CCFR includes over 30 million documents. Focus on national, regional, and local history, documentation of higher education, manuscripts held in French public libraries, BnF archives and manuscripts as well as the main catalogue, complete catalogues of municipal libraries, RACHEL European Jewish network, and many others.
• Calames External Searchable online catalogue of archives and manuscripts in French University and Research libraries.
• Caricatures of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune Cambridge University Library holds a world-class collection of six large bound volumes of caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune—(mostly) French and (some) German illustrated plates entitled Collection de caricatures et de charges pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre et de la révolution de 1870-1871 (the term caricature derives from the Italian caricare— to charge or load). The caricatures, most of them colored, provide key visual material on the war and the ensuing political turmoil in France. Produced in their thousands, they make fun of politicians and public figures of the time, soldiers and civilian populations during the war, the siege of Paris by the Germans, and the civil war that followed. They were assembled in Paris shortly after the events, then brought to London, where several sets were compiled in large volumes and sold or donated to several museums and libraries from the 1870s and into the 1880s by booksellers Dulau and Co and their assistant, Frederick Justen. The Cambridge collection of Franco-Prussian caricatures was donated by Justen in 1906, along with other (illustrated) satirical journals and historical material.
• CIFNAL: Finding French and Francophone Collections External Many institutions in the US and Canada have very strong French and Francophone collections. In 2017, CRL’s Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) Collection Development Working Group had the pleasure to work with an intern from ENSSIB, who created a database and map of these collections. Click on the Collections menu above to see a list of collections with detailed descriptions in English. Click on the Map menu to visualize the locations of the many institutions represented in the database. We are grateful to Anne-Charlotte Pivot for her fast and professional work on this project. Anne-Charlotte also prepared a detailed explanation of the rationale behind the project and how to best use the database, which is available in both English and French. The CIFNAL Collection Development Working Group has also created and is sustaining a LibGuide that compiles a number of French and Francophone Digital Humanities projects from around the world.
• Dictionnaires d'autrefois External French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Helpful reference resource for understanding historical texts. Includes Nicot’s Thresor de la langue francaise (1606), Feraud’s Dictionnaire critique de la langue francaise (1787-88), Littre’s Dictionnaire de la langue francaise (1872-77), and the Dictionnaire de l’Academie francaise 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932-5) editions.
• Europeana External Collaborative project between thousands of European archives, libraries, and museums, to promote a broader European project for cultural heritage. Searchable by theme, language, country, institution, or media.
• The European Library External Offers access to the resources of the national libraries of Europe, including over 16 million French items, searchable by collection or media. Resources can be both digital (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.) and bibliographic.
• European Literature Network External EU-funded English network aiming to promote European literature in the UK. Publishes book reviews, including French, produces translations, and sponsors literary competitions. more... less... https://www.eurolitnetwork.com/?fbclid=IwAR2_XF7kiKHmOzQ1qUQjO7eSDhcra_0yIYj1oPZN4t5lJtVMMDn3N0_cpGM
• Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt External The Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt houses rare historic documents and memorabilia that attest to its origins as well as artwork of many genres by French and American artists. It is the only French national museum that celebrates French-American friendship.
• Gallica: Presse artistique External Sélection de titres de presse artistique disponibles sur Gallica, sur une période allant du début du 19e siècle à la première moitié du 20e siècle.
• Gallica External Digitization project of the Bibliotheque nationale de France focusing on the cultural history of France and French-speaking areas throughout the world. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science.
• The National Libraries of Europe External Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold. CENL, the Conference of European National Librarians, brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.
• Paris: Capital of the 19th Century External The project, "Paris, Capital of the 19th century," initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture. It offers online access to pictorial works and texts selected from the collections of the Art Slide Library, the Rockefeller Library and the John Hay Library at Brown University. The majority of the materials are drawn from the Anne S. K. Brown Collection and the Starred Books Collection housed at the John Hay Library. These two collections provide a particularly significant and informative perspective on the political, cultural and social movements of this time period. Parisian society, military operations and dress, well-known personalities, and cityscapes are among the many subjects of images in the collection. Of particular interest to researchers is the inclusion of entire works — full text and images — for selected books and periodicals.
• Persee External Established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research, PERSEE provides free access to journals, books, conference proceedings, serials, primary sources, and a range of research tools. Journals include Annales, Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartes, L’Homme, Revue française de science politique.
• Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog External The oldest digital library, offering over 50,000 e-books to download, including a significant number of French titles. Works are in the public domain and consist primarily of fiction, classics, and reference works.
• Reseau francophone numerique External Online network of French sources, sponsored by the Organisation international de la francophonie. Preservation of French-language materials from libraries in a diverse selection of countries.
• Tresor de la Langue Francaise informatise (TLFi) External Monolingual French dictionary, with definitions and examples.

Specialized Subject Guides, Webinars & Presentations on France

• The French Librarian of Literary Guide External Written by L.T. Ventouillac in 1829 as a guide "pointing out the best works of the principal writers of France, in every branch of literature; with criticisms, personal anecdotes and bibliographical notices; preceded by a sketch of the progress of French literature." Full digital copy from HathiTrust.
• The French Resistance: Newspapers and Journals in Occupied France External This guide offers a list newspapers and journals in occupied France from 1940-45 available at Yale or available to Yale researchers through the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), of which Yale is a member. The guide does not attempt to offer a complete picture of all available newspapers from this period available on the Web. Items at CRL will need to be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. In a few instances, links to freely available resources, such a Gallica at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) are also included when they complement Yale holdings. Also included are direct links to material from the Archives Unbound (AU) database Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers. Worth reading as well is the provenance of AU collection--which is based on materials from the British Library which were acquired through a variety of means including neutral sources and intelligence activities. This guide is not available on the database, but can be found as a description of the original microfilm set here. For many items there are holdings in a variety of formats and available issues as listed in the right-hand column.
• French Student Riots of May 1968 External Les événements de mai 68 (the events of May '68) or Mai 68 (May '68) refer to the socio-political and cultural contestation that took place in France between May and June, 1968. Student protests at universities in Nantes, Brest and Nanterre were eventually joined by a general strike involving some 10 million workers, nearly 20 percent of the population. This historical yet brief union of intellectual contestation and workers' struggle engulfed Paris in the worst rioting since the Popular Front era of the 1930s.
• Treaty of Alliance with France: Primary Documents in American History The Treaty of Alliance with France was signed on February 6, 1778, creating a military alliance between the United States and France against Great Britain. Negotiated by the American diplomats Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee, the Treaty of Alliance required that neither France nor the United States agree to a separate peace with Great Britain, and that American independence be a condition of any future peace agreement. In addition to the Treaty of Alliance, the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France was signed on February 6, 1778, promoting trade and commercial ties between the two countries.
• Association of College and Research Libraries: Guide to French Studies External Scholarly resources in French Studies, including those covering Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Monaco, and Switzerland. The resources organized here are all freely available and have undergone a selection and evaluation process. This guide is a list of scholarly resources in French Studies. Intended primarily for librarians; it may be useful to scholars in this field. It is curated and managed by members of the European Studies Section (ESS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries. Users are free to copy and edit content from this guide for their own purposes.
• Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliothèque nationale de France From its inception, the French monarchy sought to expand state control over culture in order to consolidate its political power both nationally and internationally. This process reached its climax during the reign of Louis XIV. The death of the Sun King in 1715 marked a turning point in the relationship between power and culture in France. Since the Enlightenment, the "producers" of culture—artists, artisans, scientists and intellectuals—have gained an unprecedented degree of creative freedom. No longer servants of the state, they have become increasingly emancipated from those who wield political power. The democratization of culture, or what could be termed the spread of Enlightenment values, in turn made political democracy possible. Those values remain the cornerstone of contemporary French culture.
• Caricatures of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune This storymap highlights the 2022 exhibition at Cambridge University on caricatures of the Franco-Prussian War. The exhibition will be displayed from 10th March to 7th May 2022. The exhibition sheds light on the Library's remarkable collection, now fully digitized, of six large volumes of around 1100 caricatures, mostly produced during the two sieges of Paris and widely distributed as colored lithographs. You can also visit the exhibition website. The Cambridge collection of Franco-Prussian caricatures was donated by Justen in 1906, along with other (illustrated) satirical journals and historical material.
• Guide Officiel des Franco-Americains, 1922 This guide, in French, of over 500 pages includes short biographies (date of birth, family members, occupation) of French-American's state by state in alphabetical order. It is the fourth edition of its kind and more complete than prior editions.

"Occupy Rousseau: Inequality & Social Justice" was an international panel discussion presented by the Embassy of Switzerland and the European Division. It was held at the Library of Congress on March 27th, 2012 and included the scholars, Dr. Guillaume Chenevière, Dr. Michael O'Dea and Dr. James Swensen. Dr. Carol Armbruster, former French Area Specialist at the Library of Congress, presented each speaker.

Foreign Legal Specialist Nicolas Boring discusses the Napoleonic Code's history, evolution, and legacy. This presentation touches not only on French law, but also the Civil Code's impact on other countries around the world, from Belgium to Haiti.

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window 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.
• Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign Dissertation Database Search 800,000 doctoral dissertations (including those of Albert Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold, and other Nobel laureates) from universities outside the U.S. and Canada. CRL acquired the majority of the collection through deposit from member libraries. CRL continues to acquire about 5,000 titles per year from major universities through demand purchase and deposit.
• Dart e-Portal DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• Catalogue SUDOC (Système Universitaire de Documentation) The French collective catalogue created by libraries and resource centres in higher education and research. To find dissertations and theses, click Advanced .... Material selection... Dissertations [or in French: Recherche avancée ... Type de publication ... Thèses].
• L'Atelier national de reproduction des thèses (ANRT) The ANRT is a French public organization which has been reproducing and distributing doctoral theses since 1971.
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• ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window more... less... Searchable descriptions of nearly a million historical documents, personal papers, and family histories kept in libraries, museums, and archives worldwide. Includes information on how to examine and order copies.

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• Dictionnaire des journaux, 1600-1789 by Jean Sgard Call Number: Doe Reference PN5184.P4 D5 1991 v.1-2
• France: Empire and Republic, 1850-1940 by David Thomson Call Number: Main Stacks DC340 .T52 1968 & NRLF

• French Revolution documents by J. M. Roberts and R. C. Cobb Call Number: Main Stacks DC141 .R39 v.1-2
• Les gazettes européennes de langue française : répertoire by Pierre Rétat Call Number: Doe Reference PN5184.P4 R47 2002
• Guide des sources de la Commune de Paris et du mouvement communaliste, 1864-1880 : Paris et Ile de France Call Number: Main Stacks DC317 .G85 2007
• Répertoire des sources historiques du moyen âge by Ulysse Chevalier Call Number: Doe Reference, Bancroft Reference D112 .C53 & Online
• Les Sources de l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1815 Call Number: Main Stacks DC6 .S7 1901a & Online
• Les sources de l'histoire de France. Notices bibliographiques et analytiques des inventaires et des recueils de documents relatifs à l'histoire de France by Alfred Franklin Call Number: Doe Reference DC6 .F8 & Online

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Below is a selection of article indexes and databases pertinent to French and Francophone Studies.   You can find a complete list of all Berkeley databases subscriptions at the  A-Z database list .

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Includes all data from Humanities International Index. Subjects covered include archaeology, literature, religion, art, dance, theater, folklore, history, African-American studies, law, women's studies, and more.

Sponsored by the Modern Language Association.

• FemEnRev (Féminismes En Revue) Full text of 11 or more French feminist journals from the 1970s-1990s. Searchable, includes text and PDFs, and index of authors.
• Indexes and Guides to Western European Periodicals-French (ESS)

The PASCAL-FRANCIS Archive will become progressively enriched with other document types and with records of partners having previously cooperated with PASCAL and FRANCIS.

• Bibliographie historique et critique de la presse périodique française by Eugène Hatin Call Number: Doe Reference AP1.36.F8 H3, Bancroft Reference Z6956.F8 H2 & Online
• Bibliographie des revues et journaux littéraires des XIXe et XXe siècles by Jean-Michel Place et André Vasseur Call Number: Main Stacks PQ281.A12 P4 v.1-3:1
• French literary journals : a selected annotated guide by Anna Danuta Kaczynska Call Number: Doe Reference & NRLF(UCB) PQ100.A12 .K3
• Repère by Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Call Number: Doe Reference AJ7 .I512
• Les revues littéraires belges de langue française de 1830 à nos jours by Paul Aron, Pierre-Yves Soucy Call Number: Main Stacks Z2405 .A76 1998

Bibliographies and Subject Guides

Selected lists of materials in any format organized around a common theme or topic.

• *Feminism & French Women in History: A Resource Guide
• French 17 (online)
• Research Guide for French and Francophone Literature (PDF, 21 pages, rev. 4/11)
• Les années littéraires en Afrique : 1912-1987 by Pius Ngandu Nkashama Call Number: Main Stacks PQ3981.A12 P58 1993
• Bibliographie annuelle de l'histoire de France du cinquième siècle à 1958 Call Number: Doe Reference DC6 .C65
• Bibliographie d'histoire littéraire française = Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft Call Number: Main Stacks PQ47.5 .B48
• Bibliographie de l'histoire médiévale en France (1965-1990) by Michel Balard Call Number: Doe Reference DC61.A12 B35 1992

• A Critical bibliography of French literature by D.C. Cabeen Call Number: Doe Reference PQ47.5 .C3 v.1-6
• Dictionnaire de la France coloniale by Jean-Pierre Rioux Call Number: Main Stacks JV1811 .D53 2007
• Dictionnaire de la politique française by Henry Coston Call Number: Main Stacks DC55 .C72 2000
• Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de langue française by Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais Call Number: Doe Reference PQ41 .D533 1994 v.1-4; Main Stacks PQ41 .B42 1994
• Dictionnaire du Second Empire by Jean Tulard Call Number: Doe Reference DC276 .D53 1995
• Dictionnaire des auteurs Maghrébins de langue française by Jean Déjeux Call Number: Doe Reference PQ3988.N6 D38 1984
• Dictionnaire de la colonisation française by Claude Liauzu Call Number: Doe Reference JV1807 .D53 2007
• Ecritures littéraires : dictionnaire critique des œuvres africaines de langue française by Pius Ngandu Nkashama Call Number: Doe Reference PQ3980.A52 P583 2002 v.1-2

• Guide to French Literature by Anthony Levi (Editor) Call Number: Doe Reference Hall PQ41 .L48 1992 & Main Stacks PQ41 .L48 1992
• Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande by Roger Francillon Call Number: Main Stacks PQ3871 .H57 2015

• Lettres françaises de Belgique : dictionnaire des œuvres by Robert Frickx et Raymond Trousson Call Number: Doe Reference PQ3814 .L47 1988 v.1-4
• Negritude : an annotated bibliography by Colette V. Michael Call Number: Doe Reference PN56.N36 M5 1988

Book Reviews

• Acta Fabula, revue des parutions

"Indexes book reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults, from over 8000 leading magazines from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Includes several thousand full text reviews. For book reviews published from 1905 to 1982 go to Book Review Digest Retrospective which can be searched separately or simultaneously."

• Google Scholar This link opens in a new window more... less... Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Can be used with "Get it at UC" to access the full text of many articles.

• Book review digest Call Number: Doe Reference Z1219 .B8 Periodical Indexes

Some sources to peruse for new French publications include:

• Critique by Editions de Minuit Call Number: Main Stacks Z1007 .C8 & Online via Cairn
• Décapage: revue littéraire Call Number: Main Stacks PQ2 .D43, latest in Current Periodicals, Heyns Reading Room
• Lire Call Number: Main Stacks Z2174.B6 L57 latest in Current Periodicals, Heyns Reading Room
• Livres de France Call Number: Main Stacks Z2161 .L73 latest in Current Periodicals, Heyns Reading Room
• Quinzaines : lettres, arts et idées Call Number: Main Stacks f AP20 .Q53 latest in Current Periodicals, Heyns Reading Room, shelved in Folio Section

Dissertations and Theses

Older dissertations not available full text may be obtained through Interlibrary Loan .

For more extensive indexing of doctoral dissertations and theses from Western Europe, here are a few other resources to consult:

• OPAC SBN: Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale - Italy
• theses.fr - France

French Libraries and Catalogs

• Biblissima more... less... This portal is a virtual library of libraries: discover the history of various texts and books that were written, translated, illuminated, collected and catalogued from Classical Antiquity through the 18th century.
• BULAC, Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations
• Catalogue des incunables by Bibliothèque nationale Call Number: Main Stacks Z240 .F718 1981 v.1-2 & Bancroft Reference

• A short title catalogue of French books, 1601-1700 : in the Library of the British Museum by V.F. Goldsmith Call Number: Doe Reference Z2162 .B87 & Bancroft Reference

News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites

Listings (may include abstracts or full text) of articles in newspapers, newsmagazines, broadcast news transcripts or wire services. Also includes web sites of these media, or directories of such sites.

• French Language News and Newspapers (MIT) more... less... Compiled by the MIT Libraries.
• *Les principaux quotidiens (Gallica)
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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American and European universities on a full range of academic subjects. Includes abstracts for doctoral dissertations beginning July 1980 and for Master's theses beginning Spring 1988. All dissertations published since 1997, and some from prior years, are available for free download; others may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
• Dissertations & Theses (Georgetown-authored) This link opens in a new window Recent online theses and dissertations from selected Georgetown programs and departments. For access to Georgetown theses and dissertations authored prior to 2006, see the Georgetown catalog or refer to ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses database. Print copies of disserations may be requested using the Library's Library Use Only Materials Request. .
• EThoS: Electronic Theses Online This link opens in a new window The British Library's database of digitized theses from UK higher education institutions. Free registration and login is required.
• Open Access Theses & Dissertations The number of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) openly available via institutional repositories has grown dramatically in recent years, increasing the need for a centralized service to search for this unique material. Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD), launched in early 2013, is on the path to fulfill that need. Not as large as the commercial subscription service ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database, OATD distinguishes itself by providing access to more than 1.6 million open-access theses and dissertations freely available from over 800 institutions worldwide. The simplified interface allows searching across all fields or, in advanced search, by specific field (Title, Author Name, Abstract, University/Publisher, or Subject/Keywords). In addition, users may limit searches to a specific language or date range. Search results may be sorted by relevance, author, university, or date. more... less... Depending on the search, results may be further limited by date, university, department, degree, level (e.g., doctoral vs. master's), or language. The number of hits for entries under each limit is conveniently displayed in the left column. Links to the full text residing on the home institution's site are provided for each record. In many instances, several pages of the thesis or dissertation are available for viewing. Though other sites cover similar material, e.g., PQDT Open http://pqdtopen.proquest.com and Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, OATD focuses exclusively on open-access ETDs, and serves as an excellent resource for students and researchers. Its usefulness will continue to increase as more ETDs are made freely available.
• Theses.fr This link opens in a new window Provides access to more than 5000 theses on all subjects submitted in French to universities around the world, since 2006. Most are digitized and available in full text.
• Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window Provides information on all the Canadian theses and dissertations in the collection of the National Library of Canada. Free access to the full-text of theses from 1998.
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Worldwide Dissertation Database? or French, German, Italian ones?

Is there a global/worldwide database of dissertations? If not, how can I access French, German, Italian, etc. dissertations online?

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• 6 For French ones, a good starting point is theses.fr run by ABES . Many universities also keep online repositories of submitted theses. You can find more information on en.abes.fr/Theses/Applications-dedicated-to-theses –  Willie Wong Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 16:07
• 1 Possible duplicate of Some collection of students' theses or dissertations –  Ooker Commented Nov 11, 2015 at 10:24

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I am not aware of an international database, but basically all german dissertations have to be submitted to the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek), so if they exist in physical form they can be accessed at the libraries in Frankfurt and/or Leipzig. If they only exist in electronical form, they are still registered at the library. The following link is going to give you a list of all german dissertations that are freely available online: DNB search

The DNB also has a manual about searching for dissertations, however I could only find a german version that is available here

• According to DNB, only dissertations since 1998 are available. I find difficulty to find any clues to get access to one dissertation before that time. –  zhaofeng-shu33 Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 2:37

For French PhD thesis, the most important repository is TeL . Many university now make it mandatory to deposit one's thesis there, so it has a very good coverage for recent years.

• 1 Also link . –  RiGonz Commented Sep 30, 2022 at 6:05

Dutch doctoral theses can be found at:

http://www.narcis.nl/search/genre/doctoralthesis/coll/publication/Language/en

In the past, all PhD dissertations in Italy were to be sent in printed form to the Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma . It appears, however, that those dissertations can only be read there . The library has an online catalog which, however, doesn't seem to index the dissertations (from the library's website it appears that the PhD dissertations catalog is only in paper form).

For further information about dissertations deposited there, I suggest you to contact the library directly. There is also an international interlibrary loan service ( Prestito Interbibliotecario Internazionale ).

Nowadays, instead, all universities in Italy have online repositories, and many recent dissertations should be available from these repositories.

For German dissertations it is often a requirement that the dissertation is "published", which used to mean published by a publisher, though many universities have made this requirement less strict to allow for the new possibilities of the internet. However, publishing with a publisher is still common practice in many disciplines. This means that many German dissertions are not downloadable from the internet. If you have a concrete dissertation you want to read it can help to contact the author directly, they may be willing to sent you a copy.

• I think at least in natural sciences, these days they are usually "published" as a PDF on the university library's website, so most university libraries will have a database with PhD theses. –  user151413 Commented Apr 1, 2021 at 21:32

In Spain the dissertations are listed on the website of the Ministry of Education , and the Network of Spanish University Libraries .

Most theses of Catalan universities can be found in digital form on tdx.cat .

There is also DART-Europe https://www.dart-europe.org/basic-search.php which aggregates info about openly available European PhDs.

Some university thesis databases are registered and indexed by the international Open Archives Initiative organization. So you can find links to many theses via their search engine OAIster .

You can find both master and phd thesis in Turkey from the following website:

https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/giris.jsp

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French Databases at Yale

• ARTFL French women writers The ARTFL French Women Writers Project is a searchable database containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.
• Bibliographie de la littérature française (BLF) A database produced by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Société d'histoire littéraire de la France and published by Classiques Garnier digital. It lists studies published since 1998 on French and Francophone literature, from the sixteenth century to today.
• CAIRN French-language journals in the humanities and social sciences
• Classiques Garnier Digital editions of French and Francophone literature from the middle ages to the twentieth century
• Corpus de la litterature medivale des origines au 15e sicle Digital texts of French medieval literature up to the 15th century.
• Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue franaise et de tous ses dialectes du 9e au 15e sicle French historical dictionary from the 9th to the 15th century.
• Encyclopdie d'Yverdon (Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines). Printed between 1770 and 1780, a successor to Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie. Sometimes referred to as the "protestant Encyclopedie" on account of its moderate stance toward religion.
• French 17 Online bibliography of scholarship on 17th Century French literature. Not fully up to date. Also available in print.
• Grand Corpus des littératures française et francophone, du Moyen ge au 20e siecle
• Grand Robert Major French Dictionary.
• La poésie provençale. Database of Provençale poetry from 1130-1300 The PhiloLogic implementation of the Provençal Database from the ARTFL project at the University of Chicago.
• Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du 19e s.
• La Révolution et l'Empire Classic historiography on the French Revolution and First Empire.
• RetroNews RetroNews, the official news site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, offers a collection of French press titles published from 1631-1950 which can be filtered by frequency, press type, and publication location. The texts are supplemented by audio recordings, slideshows, video, and texts. Yale users can create a personal account for advanced features. more... less... Enhances what is available on Gallica.
• Écrits sur L'Art Digital edition of French art citicism from 1741 to 1927.

General Collections on the Web

• ARTFL ARTFL (American French Research on the Treasury of the French Language). A consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources. Along with ARTFL's flagship database ARTFL-FRANTEXT, ARTFL members are also given access to a large variety of other Subscriber Databases.
• ATHENA Plusieurs oeuvres de langue française de la France et de la Suisse et de nombreux liens vers des textes en philosophie, science, histoire, économique, littérature, etc.
• Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes Site offrant des ouvrages numérisés provenant de divers fonds patrimoniaux, principalement français. On propose aussi des outils adaptés aux documents concernant l'humanisme et la Renaissance. Ce projet agrège plusieurs types de documents numériques, principalement des fac-similés numérisés et la base Epistemon, en cours de conversion au format XML-TEI, ainsi que des transcriptions de minutes notariales et de manuscrits. Réalisé par : Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissanc
• Catalogue Collectif de France (CCFr) French national union catalog. Provides access to an index describing more that 5000 French libraries, archives and museums and nearly 3800 local and specialized collections.
• ClicNet Littérature francophone virtuelle
• Collections numeriques de la BANQ « Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec rend accessible sur Internet une version numérique de 360 000 pages de livres et de partitions musicales, 12 000 pages de livres d'artistes, 26 000 images fixes de documents iconographiques et cartographiques ainsi que 1 500 enregistrements sonores.
• Digital Library of the Caribbean The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. The dLOC partner institutions are the core of dLOC. dLOC partners retain all rights to their materials and provide access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
• Francis and Pascal Free access to more than 14 million bibliographic references of articles, conference papers and conference proceedings produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1984 to 2015 for PASCAL (12 million) and from 1972 to 2015 for FRANCIS (2 million).
• French Political Pamphets | HBLL The collection of French Political Pamphlets in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University features more than 2,100 pamphlets published between 1547 and 1626.
• French Revolution Digital Archive The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
• Les Classiques des sciences sociales Bibliothèque unique et originale dans la francophonie, entièrement réalisée par des bénévoles en coopération avec l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Tous les titres disponibles à partir des différentes collections de la bibliothèque sont gratuitement télédéchargeables aux formats Word (.doc), .pdf et .rtf
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• ProQuest dissertations & 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 PQDT UK & Ireland content.

European theses

• Dart Europe DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments. DART-Europe offers partners a European networking forum on ETD issues, and may provide the opportunity to submit collaborative funding applications to achieve DART-Europe's vision for ETDs.
• Depósito de Dissertações e Teses Digitais (Portugal) DiTeD is an intiative of the BNP - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal aiming to create an online digital library of doctoral (phd) and masters dissertations and theses completed in Portuguese universities.
• Dialnet- Spanish theses This resource, run by the University of La Rioja, contains theses from various Spanish universities that are accessible online.
• Dissertations.se Do you want to know what Swedish researchers are up to? Dissertations.se lets you search among university dissertations from Sweden, written in English. At the moment there are 59828 finished dissertations in the database - and about half of these are available for download as PDF.
• Dissonline - German theses Listed by the German National Library
• Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet (DiVA) - Swedish and Norweigan theses DiVA portal is a finding tool for research publications and student theses written at the 36 participating universities and research institutions, mainly in Sweden and Norway
• NARCIS - National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System (Netherlands) Gives access to online theses drawn from the repositories of a range of Dutch universities.
• OpenGrey OpenGrey is a multidisciplinary European resource which provides open access to 700,000 bibliographical references of grey literature produced in Europe more... less... It covers science, technology, biomedical science, economics, social science and humanities. Examples of grey literature include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, conference papers and official publications.
• SwePub Academic publications at Swedish universities. Search among scholarly articles, conference papers and dissertations etc.
• Système Universitaire de Documentation (SUDOC) - French theses SUDOC is a French collective catalogue created by Higher Education and Research libraries and resource centres. It indexes French PhD dissertations in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, law, health sciences and veterinary medicine. Some records include abstracts in French and occasionally in English
• Consulta de la Base de datos de Tesis Doctorales (TESEO) - Spanish theses TESEO is a database compiled by the Spanish Ministry of Education containing theses awarded by Spanish universities since 1976. It provides information on the thesis (author, date, study area, etc.). It also includes an abstract and the location of the thesis, but not full-text access.
• Texis Doctorals en Xarxa (TDX) - Spanish theses TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online), managed by a consortium of Catalan institutions, is a digital cooperative repository of doctoral theses presented at some Spanish universities. The theses can be searched by author, advisor, title, keywords, university, year of defence, etc.
• Theses.fr - French theses Its aim is to provide an entry point to: • all ongoing doctoral theses in France • all awarded theses in France, available in any format (print, digital, commercially published, etc.) • individuals and institutions in connection with these theses.
• Thèses en Ligne TEL (France) The purpose of TEL (thèses-EN-ligne) is to facilitate the self archiving of thesis manuscripts, which are important documents for direct scientific communication between scientists.
• Indian theses and dissertations TheShodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers.
• China masters' theses full-text database China Masters' Theses is a comprehensive full-text database and practical masters' theses full-text database in China, with the highest quality and the shorted publication cycle. It covers a wide range of subjects, such as fundamental science, engineering technology, agriculture, medical science, philosophy, humanity and social science, etc. By now, it has collected 2,799,434 excellent masters’ theses from 711 master degree grantors.

Middle East

• KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology As a condition of graduation, KAUST requires master's students who complete a thesisto deposit it in the KAUST digital archive. Similarly, doctoral students must submit an electronic copy of their dissertation to the KAUST digital archive.

Australia and New Zealand

• Kiwi Research Information Service Open access repository which provides free access to research outputs produced by staff and researchers at a number of colleges and universities based in New Zealand including eprints, research papers, journal articles, conference papers, reports, theses.
• New Zealand Educational Theses Database A national database of New Zealand educational theses from 1961 compiled by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
• New Zealand theses This site includes peer-reviewed and other research, including theses, from universities, polytechnics, and research organisations throughout New Zealand.
• TROVE - Australian theses Trove contains almost a million theses. Some of these are in print format only, others are available online in digital format

North America / Canada

• DSpace@MIT MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) DSpace contains more than 25,000 master and doctoral dissertations completed at MIT dating as far back as the mid 1800’s. Full-text is available for dissertations submitted after 2004.
• Theses Canada Theses Canada aims to acquire and preserve a comprehensive collection of Canadian theses at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and to provide access to this valuable research within Canada and throughout the world.

South Africa

• National ETD Portal South African theses and dissertations Database of theses from South African universities.
• NDLTD Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (United States) Collaboration containing over a million records of electronic theses and dissertations – mainly US where 'thesis' refers to Masters level and 'dissertation' is doctoral.

Worldwide thesis

• American Musicological Society: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM) is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
• Cybertesis Developed by the University of Chile in collaboration with 32 other European universities covering a variety of universities in Europe, North America and Latin America.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) 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). We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide. Our website includes resources for university administrators, librarians, faculty, students, and the general public. Topics include how to find, create, and preserve ETDs; how to set up an ETD program; legal and technical questions; and the latest news and research in the ETD community.
• OAIster Use OAIster to locate and access digital documents held in more than 1100 Open Access repositories. The content includes journal article pre-prints and postprints, research papers, theses, technical reports, image collections, audio files, movies and datasets.
• Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many of these are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) OATD.org is a resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 3,256,024 theses and dissertations.
• Open thesis OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.

South America

• Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações - BDTD - Inicio Catalogue and portal of information about dissertations and theses from Brazilian universities and colleges.
• Hong Kong University Theses Online (Hong Kong) Holds theses and dissertations submitted for higher degrees to the University of Hong Kong since 1941.
• Pakistan Research Repository Pakistan Research Repository is a project of the Higher Education Commission to promote the international visibility of research originating out of institutes of higher education in Pakistan. The aim of this service is to maintain a digital archive of all PhD theses produced indigenously to promote the intellectual output of Pakistani institutions
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These efforts are beginning to work. A new analysis of satellite images in Global Ecology and Conservation, dating as far back as 1972, has revealed that Madagascar’s mangroves have been making a comeback, with rates of deforestation slowing over time and mangrove cover actually increasing over the last decade. While these vital ecosystems still face challenges, experts say the results are a sign that Madagascar’s efforts to protect mangroves have been succeeding.

“I definitely think that it can be seen as a success story,” said Temilola Fatoyinbo, a forest ecologist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who was not involved with the study. “These protected areas, and conservation, work.”

Aigrette is not the only one who feels at home in the mangroves. These unique shoreline forests are hubs of biodiversity, hosting animal and plant species that can be found nowhere else, including the mangroves themselves. A mangrove is any tree or shrub that has evolved to thrive when partially submerged in saltwater; there are about 80 species total, and they aren’t all closely related.

Coastal mangrove forests can be found in tropical areas around the world, and they make up around half of Madagascar’s coastline. For communities living alongside mangroves, the trees and the ecosystem they create are a vital source of life.

Mangroves act as storm buffers, serve as fish nurseries and attract fish that are caught locally using traps and canoes and provide wood used for building, cooking and crafting the canoes.

Despite their importance, the overall status of Madagascar’s mangroves has long been unclear.

“There’s this really strong environmental degradation narrative about Madagascar,” said Dr. Rémi Bardou, a biogeographer at the University of Michigan and lead author of the new study, who pointed to the prevailing belief that humans have been heavily deforesting the island ever since they first arrived around 11,000 years ago . While Bardou said this myth of widespread destruction is ultimately untrue, humans have long been cutting down Madagascar’s mangroves, though estimates of how much mangrove forest is left can vary widely — from as low as 2,000 square kilometers (772.2 square miles) to as high as 3,000 km2 (1,158.3 mi2).

Bardou first began mapping Madagascan mangroves while working on his master’s thesis in France, focusing solely on the northwestern part of the island; it was then, in 2013, that he visited the island and saw that “a lot of coastal communities rely on mangroves” and “are actually really involved in maintaining them and protecting them,” he said. “I really was interested in looking at what’s actually happening in terms of both positive and negative dynamics.”

To get a fuller picture of that, Bardou turned to satellite imagery from NASA’s Landsat program, which started in 1972 with the launch of Landsat 1. The most recent satellite, Landsat 9, was launched in September 2021. Landsat’s image quality has improved over time, which can make comparing new images with old ones difficult, especially in tropical areas where land is often obscured by cloud cover.

Bardou scoured the database for the clearest images of the mangroves he could find, which ended up being during the dry season, between May and September. He was ultimately able to compare images from 1972, 1989, 1999, 2009 and 2019, allowing him to see how Madagascar’s mangrove cover has changed over nearly half a century.

“That’s a really impressive time range,” Fatoyinbo said. “It’s so great to see that long Landsat archive is being used.”

A high-level view of the results looks like bad news — Madagascar’s mangrove coverage decreased by about 8% between 1972 and 2019. But a closer look reveals that mangrove loss has been slowing over time, and that between 2009 and 2019, mangrove coverage actually increased by 5%. In 2019, mangroves covered 2,699 km2 (1,042.09 mi2) of Madagascar.

“It is true that mangroves have been deforested a lot in Madagascar,” Bardou said. “But then, since the year 2010, we kept seeing more and more positive dynamics.”

What’s more, mangroves rebounded most strongly within protected areas — an 8.7% increase compared with just 3% outside of these areas. Madagascar’s network of protected areas began in the 1930s and started expanding in the 1980s. Meanwhile, other conservation efforts led by nonprofits or grassroots organizations have grown in tandem. Aigrette’s former organization, Blue Ventures, replanted more than 9 million mangroves between 2014 and 2022, she said.

And in the coastal Ambanja district of northern Madagascar, 13 community groups came together to form the Fédération Miaramientagna , which spreads awareness about the importance of mangroves and promotes the use of sustainable wood from brown salwood tree (Acacia mangium) plantations as an alternative fuel source. Demand for charcoal, especially from urban areas in the north, is one of the greatest threats to mangroves.

“Not all of the people can afford gas for cooking,” Aigrette said, and mangrove wood is preferred for making charcoal over other kinds of trees.

The government banned the harvesting and selling of mangrove wood in 2014, but enforcement is lacking. In some areas, local communities enforce the ban themselves. But where this doesn’t exist, the federal government doesn’t have enough money or staff to protect the mangroves, Aigrette said.

Madagascar’s mangrove comeback aligns with results from other parts of the world too. In 2020, Fatoyinbo co-authored a study showing that global mangrove losses due to human activities are on the decline . This is partially because the easy-to-access mangroves have already been cut down, Fatoyinbo said, but is also because “the awareness and knowledge about the importance of mangrove ecosystems has just increased so much.”

As efforts to protect mangroves continue, Fatoyinbo expects the salt-loving trees to expand even further along the world’s tropical coasts.

While mangroves in Madagascar aren’t out of the woods yet — additional threats include mining, resort development and severe storms, which are becoming more common due to climate change — the new results show that with concerted conservation effort, in partnership with coastal communities, progress can be made.

“There is a need to empower the local communities to secure their rights over mangrove management,” Aigrette said, including not only the trees themselves but the fisheries they support. “Because their life is dependent on mangrove.”

Banner image: Lalao Aigrette conducts mangrove inventory training with coastal community members. Image courtesy of Lalao Aigrette.

Bardou, R., Friess, D. A., Gillespie, T. W., & Cavanaugh, K. C. (2024). Assessing mangrove cover change in Madagascar (1972 to 2019): Widespread mangrove deforestation is slowing down. Global Ecology and Conservation, e03022. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03022

Rasolofo, M. V. (1997). Use of mangroves by traditional fishermen in Madagascar. Mangroves and Salt Marshes. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1009923022474

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While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

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