LibGuides: Business & Management: Theses, Conferences etc.

Finding Theses & Dissertations

STORRE - Stirling PhD
Use STORRE to find PhD theses from University of Stirling.

Find more info.about Stirling research theses at: http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/theses.

EThOS for theses at UK Unversities
Use EThOS to find PhD theses at UK Universities. Many are available for download. Many others may be requested.

Request a UK Thesis be Scanned
Some UK thesis not available via EThOS may be scanned on request. See this document for more information.

DART-Europe E-theses Portal This link opens in a new window
Portal to European research theses. Records link to each institution's repository for access to the full-text of theses. See the list of Universities included.

Open Access Theses & Dissertations (OATD)
Open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

OPENDissertations (via EBSCO Database interface) This link opens in a new window
Details of US current and historic theses with some international additions. Incorporates 'American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955. Uses the EBSCO database search interface.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index ( PQDTCI ) This link opens in a new window
Find references to 5.6 million dissertations and theses from over four thousand universities.

Some references provide a 'URL' with link to full text but others provide only metadata and a preview. To request full text of non-UK theses click 'Find@Stir' link (you may need to register if you do not have a Document Delivery Service account). If full text of Stirling theses is not available try STORRE (https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/) or https://librarysearch.stir.ac.uk and for other UK theses try https://ethos.bl.uk/. For European theses try DART-Europe (https://www.dart-europe.org/basic-search.php) and for worldwide theses Open Access Theses and Dissertations (https://oatd.org/)

To search for both journal articles and theses simultaneously in Web of Science, select to 'Search in all databases'.

Reports and difficult to find sources (Grey Literature)

OpenGrey European database of grey literature This link opens in a new window
Database of 700,000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe. Includes technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, conference papers, official publications. Covers: Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and Humanities. You can use the Zotero Chrome extension to export results page-by-page.

Scottish Natural Heritage Publications
SNH make a number of their publications freely available including their Commissioned Reports which discuss the outputs ot their research programme.

Stirling UG and PGT Dissertations

The Library has some past undergraduate and taught postgraduate dissertations, but not in every subject. They are all listed in LibrarySearch. To find dissertations for a particular degree.

Guide and video to find dissertations in Library

Conferences

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) This link opens in a new window
Index for finding conference papers. Provides bibliographic details (and often abstracts) for papers presented at international conferences. From 1990 onwards. Part of Web of Science Core Collection.

Cassyni Discover
Search for seminar content or add your own presentation and make sure it is not lost for future researchers.