DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. 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.
The above is all taken from the DART-Europe website (and still counts as plagiarism as I have not otherwise made it clear that those are not my own words). In simpler language, the E-Thesis portal is a searchable database of full-text dissertations and theses held by some European Universities that are available online. There may be a bias towards scientific topics, but feel free to have a look.
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Is there currently any way for DBS students to access databases of Irish and UK theses online? For example: Proquest Dissertations or ThesesUK/Ireland Index to Theses.
We'll investigate access to the Index to Theses, but I wouldn't expect anything to happen in the short term. Bear in mind that Index to Theses gives access only to an abstract of the dissertation and not the full-text. You may also wish to look at the Electronic Thesis Online Service offered by the British Library, which seems to offer the same or a similar service as the Index to Theses
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