Theses
Consulting print theses in the Library
All postgraduate MIE students are required to submit one copy of their thesis for the Library - please note that only a selection are available for consultation. The Library also holds a collection of donated theses, the research for which was conducted elsewhere.
You can ask at the Library desk to see our Thesis Index or search our catalogue.
You can consult up to two theses at a time for up to two hours, and they are issued onto your Student/Staff card. You must sign the copyright form inside the cover and may not photocopy from the thesis. Normal Irish copyright legislation applies.
Institutional repositories
Increasingly you will find online thesis portals and institutional repositories which provide abstracts (and sometimes full-text versions) of doctoral and research theses. Many of these are open-access and thus free to read - although normal copyright legislation applies. Below you will find links to some of the best national and international portals and a brief explanation of the content within and access rules for each.
TARA is Trinity College Dublin's Institutional Repository. MIE has a page in TARA where you can find the research of our staff.
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).
Ethos is the British Library's repository for research theses with over 400,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research where full-text has already been made available. If a thesis has not been digitised you can request that it be made full-text for a fee.