The Library: Product Design: Your Critical Study

Your Academic Librarians

Karen Fisher, Catherine Parkin, Maria Simões & Jennie Winterburn

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Subjects: Games Design, Interactive Media and Music Technology, Leeds Business School, Leeds Law School, Leeds School of Arts, School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing

Collections of dissertations and theses

Dart This link opens in a new window
The DART-Europe portal offers free access to full text European doctoral theses. The portal gives you access to over 360,000 open access research theses from over 500 universities in 27 European countries.
EThOS (Electronic Theses Online service) This link opens in a new window
Access to ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education for researchers Worldwide. You can search the EThOS database without having to register. You do, however, need to register and log in if you want to download a thesis from EThOS or to order digitisation of a thesis.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Provides access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, with nearly 3 million full text dissertations available for download. Please note that, despite global coverage, much of the content is North American.

Within Leeds Beckett

You can search the University repository for past Leeds Beckett research.

The Library also has some hard copies of old dissertations and theses. You can consult these to see how previous students conducted and presented their work.

Search on Discover for dissertations and theses held in the Library:

Help from the Library

Book an appointment with your Librarians who can help you find resources including journal articles, statistics and more.
Use the Skills for Learning website for step-by-step guidance on how to plan and manage your workload, and how to structure your dissertation. The Finding Information and Literature Reviews sections will be particularly useful to you.
Have a look at the Skills for Learning workshops and drop-ins you could attend.
Look at the Discover FAQs to get the most out of using this resource.
Use our Request It! service for any books or articles you'd like to read that we don't have at Leeds Beckett.
Join SCONUL Access to visit other university libraries to look at their print books or journals.

Books to help with your critical study

Search Discover for other books to help you write your dissertation: