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Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences: Theses & Conference Papers

Find Theses & Dissertations

Library Search | Ketu:

  • Under Content Type limit to theses and/or dissertations.

Otago University Research Archive (OUR Archive):

  • Repository for for theses deposited in all New Zealand university libraries, including Otago. You can limit to Thesis, Dissertation formats, once you have made an initial search. (See next box)

Thesis Information -- Finding:

  • The 'Finding' tab of the 'Thesis Information' guide includes links to databases containing theses.

Trove:

  • For theses from Australian institutions. Use Advanced Search Research & Reports, and limit the item format to Thesis.

EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service:

  • UK doctoral theses (users are required to register when ordering documents). A service from the British Library.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:

  • Search for Doctoral dissertations and Master's theses from thousands of institutions around the world. Most content added since 1997 is available in full-text.

Research Repositories

A research repository provides public access to research outputs from institutions such as universities and governmental agencies. Researchers are often required by their funding agencies to deposit resulting publications in an open-access repository.

Selected publications produced at the University of Otago. Includes theses, journal articles, working papers and more.

A gateway to the research documents (including theses) produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions in New Zealand.

Conference Papers

Conferences papers are a source of current research.

Search Scopus, and Web of Science for conference papers by specifying this as the document type in your search.

Google Scholar  - Try combining your search terms with words like conference, proceedings, congresses, symposium.

Full-text conference papers may be hard to obtain. If a paper is not available online, you may be able to contact the author and request a copy.  Also, the Library may be able to borrow or purchase published proceedings--ask your subject librarian about how to do this.

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