Research/Theses Repositories

This section contains links to electronic Research/Theses Repositories that are useful for research.

Find and get over 253,327,547 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.

The aim of the Australian Digital Thesis Project was to create a national collaborative database of digitised theses produced at Australian Universities. The database provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only.

Use this site to: Find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet. Search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.

This is a digital research archive for Lincoln University - a place to store, index, preserve and redistribute in digital formats the research output of the University's staff and students.

Massey Research Online is an open access digital archive of the research and scholarship of Massey University. It contains research theses and research outputs including published work by Massey University students and academic staff as well as peer-reviewed material not published elsewhere. In the case of previously published research outputs all requirements of copyright owners are observed. Items in Massey Research Online are fully indexed and searchable on Google Scholar and NZ Research.

Discover and access New Zealand’s most comprehensive selection of research papers and related resources. This site includes peer-reviewed and other research from universities, polytechnics, and research organisations throughout New Zealand.

ResearchSpace is a digital repository or online archive for The University of Auckland, and contains Full Text Theses and other Research Outputs.

ScholarSpace is an open-access, digital institutional repository for the University of Hawaii at Manoa community. ScholarSpace stores the intellectual works and unique collections of the UH at Manoa academic community and also provides a permanent web location for those accessing these resources.

Te Rau Matatini hosts a small but growing research database called Te Ipu Whakahaua which contains Māori mental health, addictions and whānau ora research. Te Ipu refers to a bowl that one can draw sustenance from or provide sustenance to. Whakahauā refers to the wind that emerges to form the awhiowhio (whirlwind) which travels both ways, up and down. The key is reciprocation between Papatūānuku and Ranginui. The database follows the same way of thinking. Resources contained assist and inform those wanting more information about Māori mental health, the benefits will be returned, to contribute positively to whānau ora.

Theses Canada, launched in 1965, is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 universities accredited by Universities Canada. It strives to: acquire and preserve theses and dissertations from participating universities; provide free access to Canadian electronic theses and dissertations in the collection; and facilitate access to non-digital theses and dissertations in the collection.

Tuwhera Open Access Theses & Dissertations contains digital copies of theses, dissertations and research projects from AUT's postgraduate research, deposited with the Library since 2002. The full text digital files are available if the author has given permission for their thesis, dissertation or research projects to be available open access.

The UC Research Repository collects and stores original research from postgraduate students, researchers and academics based at the University of Canterbury.

The Eprint repository for Te Tumu at the University of Otago is an open access collection of publications by academic staff and students, both before and after peer-reviewed publication. Most publications are fully searchable. The full text of some material may not be available for various reasons (including copyright restrictions).

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