Brown University

• Brown University Theses and Dissertations database
  Includes over 15,000 records for dissertations written and submitted in fulfillment of Brown University degree requirements from 1893 to 2000. Included are undergraduate honors theses, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. Records include the author's name, thesis title, degree awarded, year, granting department, and when available, thesis advisor.

United States

• Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts)
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  1861-present; covers every doctoral dissertation completed at accredited institutions in the U.S. This new version of Dissertation Abstracts include 24-page thumbnails of every dissertation since 1997, as well as the full text of all Brown University dissertations since 1997.

International

• Cybertesis: tesis electrónicas en línea
  An international portal for electronic theses and dissertations worldwide.

• Guide for Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  Published by the Unesco. A resource for graduate students who are writing theses or dissertations, and for faculty mentoring graduate students.

• PhdData.org - Universal Index of Doctoral Disserations in Progress
  "This site is the product of the combined initiative and efforts of several doctorate students in the U.S.A., Argentina and Israel, who felt the need for one site that would concentrate all existing information on doctoral researches around the world."

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
  An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.

Spain

• Bases de datos de tesis doctorales (TESEO)
  TESEO compiles and provides information on doctoral theses from Spanish universities since 1976.

• Catálogo de tesis doctorales catalanas
  Electronic catalog of doctoral theses from Catalonia.

• Tesis doctorales—via Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
  Provides an electronic catalog of theses from Spanish universities. Arranged alphabetically by university. Some full-text available.

Latin America

• Tesis digitales—Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México
  Compiles undergraduate and master theses in electronic format from the Universidad de las Américas in Puela. Full-text. A NDLTD initiative.

• Tesis europeas sobre América Latina—Proyecto cooperativo de REDIAL
  Compiles bibliographic information on theses and dissertations concerning Latin America defended in European universities.

• TESIUNAM
  An electronic catalog of theses from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Portugal

• Dissertações de Doutoramento na Universidade de Coimbra
  Doctoral theses from the Universidade de Coimbra in Portugal.

• Dissertações e Teses Digitais (DiTeD)
  Theses and dissertations from Portugal deposited at the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon and made available in digital format.

• Teses sobre temas relacionados com História da Ciência, realizadas em Universidades Portuguesas, desde 1990
  Theses about the history of science defended in Portuguese universities since 1990.

Brazil

• Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações
  An archive of theses published at the Universidade de São Paulo, with abstracts in English. In Portuguese. Available for free download.

• Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
  CAPES is a public foundation managed by the Ministerio da Educação (MEC). Its purpose is to support, promote, and assess Brazilian education at the graduate and post-graduate levels. To access information on theses, click on "Banco de Teses."

• Banco de Teses e Dissertações (BTD)
  Database of Brazilian theses and dissertations. Some full-text.

• Teses—via universiabrasil.net
  Links to Brazilian thesis and dissertation resources.

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Images
Top left: original watercolor of an Inca (possibly Manco Capac) found in vol. 2 of Borrones: un recuerdo para la historia del Alto Perú. Undated. Church Collection. John Hay Library.

Middle left: detail of "Indians of Panuco" from Sketch book of Captain G.F. Lyon R.N. London: Published by J. Dickinson; Printed at C. Hullmandel’s Litho. Establishment, 1827. Paul R. Dupee Mexican History Collection. John Hay Library.

Bottom: detail of "Funérailles des Tupinambas" from Brésil by M. Ferdinand Denis. Series L'univers: histoire et description de tous les peuples [D. Amérique, t. 1]. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie., 1863. Church Collection. John Hay Library.