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Irish, Ulster Scots and Celtic Studies: Dissertation Support

A guide for detailed information about the resources in this subject area

Finding Ulster dissertations

Undergraduate dissertations are not held by the Library, Master's dissertations are now submitted online and the Library will only hold a small number as examples, so ask your lecturer or supervisor about access to previous dissertations. Doctoral dissertations up to 2017 may be requested from the Information Point. They are strictly for Library Use Only, but may be photocopied in accordance with copyright regulations. From 2017 onwards they are available online via the University's PURE website.

Look at the current dissertations if you need ideas about how to lay out your table of contents, create cover pages, appropriate binding etc.

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Master and doctoral dissertations are listed in the library catalogue.

Search by keyword and use the Format filter 'Thesis' to display dissertations.

Theses at other campuses may be requested from the Information Point.

Books on Dissertations and research writing

Book: Doing your research project

Doing Your Research Project, 7th ed

Available as an eBook via eBook Central

Belfast shelfmark: 370.78/BEL

Derry and Coleraine shelfmark: LB1028.B34 2018

 

Book: How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation

How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation, 3rd ed

Available as an eBook too.

Belfast shelfmark: 808.042/GRE

Derry and Coleraine shelfmark: LB2369.G75 2019

Book: How to Do Your Social Research Project or Dissertation

How to Do Your Social Research Project or Dissertation

Belfast shelfmark: 300.72/HOW

Derry and Coleriane shelfmark: HG62.C52

Book: Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care

Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care

Belfast shelfmark: 808.066378/WAL

Derry and Coleraine shelfmark: LB2369.W34 2009

Book: Writing Law Dissertations

Writing Law Dissertations

Available as an eBook

Theses & Dissertations available online

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The British Library's EThOS service provides abstract records for over 500,000 UK doctoral dissertations. Once registered, you can get full-text access to approximately half of these by limiting the keyword search to those theses 'available for immediate download'. Registration is free. Many records also have the Image of Open Accesssymbol indicating that they are freely available from the relevant University's repository. 

NOTE: EThOS records are available in USearch. Use the Content Provider filter to limit to those from EThOS.
The full-text EThOs service is currently unavailable due to a hacking incident and there is no date for restoration of the service. However, individual theses may be still be available from the originating institution's research portal or repository.

Many of the Library databases contain records relating to dissertations and theses, both national and international. The majority of these are available as abstracts only, although some will have a longer extract or preview.

Using Google Scholar

Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar search limits results to academic-related sources, such as peer reviewed journals, research based working papers, books and other scholarly resources. Use in combination with appropriate Library databases.

To export any references to the RefWorks database, go to the Scholar settings, choose the Bibliography Manager option and select 'Show links to import citations into' RefWorks. For more information on Google Scholar, including search tips and citation metrics see Google Scholar guide.