THESES & DISSERTATIONS
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES
Learn more about available Theses and Dissertations; Institutional Repositories, How to submit your Thesis or Dissertation to the Library and how to search to retrieve them.
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SOUTH AFRICAN THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Theses & Dissertations are the research output of Masters and Doctoral students. The
- Open Access Theses & Dissertations from SA Universities and Research Organisations (Table 2)
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Open Repositories from SA Universities and Research Organisations (T & D; Articles, Presentations, Institutions Documents, etc.) (Table 2)
- Search the Bibliographic Databases for Current and Completed Research in South Africa. (Table 1)
Table 1
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SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTRONIC THESES & DISSERTATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES
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Africa-Wide Nipad
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incl. Nexus database (Current & Completed Research)
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Current & Completed Research: Sabinet-Online
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Abstracts from approximately 150 000 South African Current and Completed research projects including Theses and Dissertations.
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Navtech: Sabinet-Online
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It contains Abstracts on Current and Completed research projects undertaken at SA Technikons.
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Nexus
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Current and Completed Reearch in South Africa.
Password is required (Contact: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za)
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UCTD: Union Catalogue for Theses & Dissertations: Sabinet-Online
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Abstracts; Completed Theses & Dissertations at universities of SA from 1919 to 2001.
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Table2
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SOUTH AFRICAN FULL-TEXT ELECTRONIC THESES & DISSERTATIONS
(incl. INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES)
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African Higher Education Research Online
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Open Access. Includes research reports, journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, working papers, booklets, and policy documents
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Boloka: North-West University
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Open Research Repository from North-West University
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CSIR Research Space
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Open and unrestricted access to the research outputs generated by CSIR scientists
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DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
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Open Access Repository
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Durban University of Technology Institutional Repository
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Open Access Institutional Repository: Theses & Dissertations, Research Publications
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IRSpace
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Search South African & African Research Repositories
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Rhodes eResearch Repository
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Open Access Institutional Repository.
Full-text online theses, journal articles and papers from conferences, workshops and other events
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Stellenbosch University Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Open Access Institutional Repositories
Full-text Theses & Dissertations
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University of Cape Town Computer Science Research Document Archive
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Documents that are products and by-products of research in the Computer Science department;
Open Full-text Access
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University of Cape Town Lawspace
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A Digital Repository of research done in the Law Faculty at the University of Cape Town
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UJ Digispace
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UJ Open Institutional Repository.
Full-text T & D; articles, documents, etc.
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University of Pretoria Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Full-text online Theses & Dissertations
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University of Pretoria Institutional Repository (UPSpace)
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Open access digital research repository of the University of Pretoria
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University of South Africa
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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University of the Free State
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Full-text online Theses & Dissertations
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University of the Western Cape Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Full-text online Theses & Dissertations
2004 +
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University of Witwatersrand
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Open access Institutional Repository
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INTERNATIONAL THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Many Universities and Research Institutions around the world are making their research available through Open Repositories Portals. View some of the TOP International Institutional Repositories.
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INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES
(INCL. THESES & DISSERTATIONS)
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Top 300 Institutional Repositories
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The World Top 300 Open Repositories. View them either per Rank or Repository name.
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arXiv.org E-Print Archive
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Cornell University: Open access to 482,478 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics
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ADT: Australasian Digital Theses Program
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The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of Theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian Universities.
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Directory for Open Access Repositories – Africa
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Open Access Repositories: Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia
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Dissertations CIS
(Russian Dissertations)
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Not Full-text. Search the Catalogue. If registered you can view the first 25 pages. All Sciences and Engineering
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DiVA
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Find Theses, Dissertations and other publications in full-text from a number of Nordic Universities
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Driver Search Portal (European Research)
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Open Access Full-text Scientific Publications. From 23 European countries. 200 Institutional or Thematic Repositories Journal articles, Dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc.
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HKUST: Institutional Repository
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Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Institutional Repository. Available also through “OAlster portal”
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Narcis: Dutch Scientific information
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Search for doctoral e-theses in the Netherlands. Find doctoral theses from all Dutch universities via the website. It is often available full-text, and free of charge.
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NDLTD: Network Digital Library of
Theses & Dissertations
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1991+; Search NDLTD for Theses and Dissertations. Open Access initiative. Full-text is also available.
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OAlster
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Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Research articles, T & D, Reports
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Theses Canada Portal
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Full-text online access to Canadian theses
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SUBMITTING THESES & DISSERTATIONS IN THE LIBRARY
ELECTRONIC THESES & DISSERTATION (T & D)
How to submit Electronic T & D to the Library?
Once the Thesis or Dissertation is completed you must submit copies to the library in both PRINT and ELECTRONIC format. The Supervisor and the student need to consult the submission guidelines for Electronic Theses & Dissertations Procedure (in PDF, latest 2008) and follow the steps.
Theses & Dissertations Submission forms: English or Afrikaans. The completed form must accompany your Theses & Dissertation copies for the Library.
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PRINT THESES & DISSERTATIONS
How to submit Print T & D to the Library?
UJ Masters and Doctoral students must reserve a time slot well in advance for the binding of research essays, dissertations or theses.
Candidates may, at the same time, indicate the number of bound copies required for private use.
Read more about the Bindery requirements.
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WHO I CAN CONTACT IN THE LIBRARY?
Contact these library staff members for assistance with your T & D:
- Collection Development Department, for more information on submission print & electronic T & D on Tel: 011 559-2180, Library, Level 4, next to the elevators or e-mail to: deniseg@uj.ac.za.
- Christina Mafumana, Special Assistant at Archiving, Special Collections & Institutional Repositories (christinam@uj.ac.za, Tel: 011 559-2630) for any queries with the actual upload of the E T & D.
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SEARCH FOR UJ THESES & DISSERTATIONS
SEARCH FOR ELECTRONIC THESES & DISSERTATIONS
To search the UJ Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) go to UJ DigiSpace.
- Step 1: Select the "Theses & Dissertations" from the list of collections.
- Step 2:The ETD's are arranged per Department.
- Step 3: You can either search the Department ETD per keyword OR you can browse the ETD per Title, Author, Subject or Date.
- Step 4: If you click on the selected ETD, you will be able to see more details about the ETD: author, keywords, abstract, etc. At the BOTTOM of the page is the full-text access link. All the ETD are protected by copyright and link to the License is available.
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SEARCH FOR PRINT T & D
To search PRINT Theses & Dissertations go to UJLink (Library Catalogue).
How to recognise print T & D on the system?
The shelf code consist of the subject code followed by 10. For example: AA10 Geography T & D; AG10 Geology, etc.
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The Resources for this website have been selected by Pavlinka Kovatcheva, subject librarian, Sciences at APK Campus, Level 1,Tel: 011 559-2621,
e-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za
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