Getting a Canadian Thesis or Dissertation
- You may want to check out the Theses Canada portal. You can search the database to find theses and dissertations from Canadian universities. If you limit your search to "Electronic Theses" you will be able to view the documents online or download them to your desktop. There are interlibrary loan and purchase options for documents that are not available electronically.
- Foley Library will request Canadian dissertations through interlibrary loan, but it may save time to try your local resources first. Why? Any Canadian thesis requested through interlibrary loan comes from the National Library of Canada. They mail it to us first and then we mail it to you. It can take weeks! For this reason, we encourage you to give the Theses Canada Portal a try. You might also want to check your local library's policies for ordering Canadian dissertations.
Finding Articles about Canadian Research or in Canadian Journals
To limit a database search to retrieve articles from Canada or in Canadian journals, enter Canad* as a search term. Canad* tells the database to search for Canada and Canadian at the same time.
