LibGuides: Art History & Visual Arts: Theses and Dissertations

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Tips

To find electronic versions of master and doctoral theses submitted to the Department of Art History and Visual Arts since 2005: go to the library catalogue and enter Art History OR Visual Arts as keyword; in the window to the right, change the View Entire Collection default to UNISA Theses and Dissertations, and click search.

Dissertations are useful for benchmarking, generating reading lists and identifying research opportunities.

South African

UCTD (Union Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic records of theses and dissertations on Master’s and Doctoral level submitted to South African universities since 1918 – updated daily. Disclaimer: Only records catalogued by their institutions on WorldCat (subfield 653 $aUCTD) are available.
UnisaETD: electronic theses and dissertations This link opens in a new window
Full text theses and dissertations published by Unisa authors in the Unisa Institutional Repository.

International

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Global This link opens in a new window
The largest single repository of graduate dissertations and theses Includes 3.8 million works – grows by 100K each year International scope – deposits from universities in 88 countries. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress,
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
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.