Guides and documentation
- Contractual framework of the educational exception: how to use and quote works in your thesis?
- Documentation for doctoral students (provided byAbes): understanding the national repository for doctoral theses; reporting your thesis subject; using the theses.fr search engine
- Guide to the doctorate : 23 practical sheets proposed by the National Association of Doctors (ANDès) for doctoral students, doctors, institutions, doctoral schools, etc.
- Guide to Copyright (2017) : this guide deals with legal issues arising in intellectual property law.
- Passport to Open Science Published by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, this guide was produced by the Committee for Open Science (CoSo) and the University of Lille. Its aim is to raise doctoral students' awareness of open science and provide them with advice and tools to put it into practice throughout their research process..
- Open Science - Codes and software: this booklet looks at the specific issues involved in opening up the codes and software produced and used in scientific research.
- Sharing scientific publication data - A guide for researchers: the aim of this guide is to familiarize researchers with the steps involved in sharing publication data.
- Carnet Questions éthique et droit en SHS: a guide to good ethical and legal practice in the dissemination of SHS data.
French doctoral schools
- Campus France directory of doctoral schools: consult the list of doctoral schools
- Campus France: finding a research laboratory
- ScanR: consult the directory of French research and innovation
Doctors and PhD students
- Ma thèse en 180 secondes: organised in France since 2014 by the CNRS and the CPU - Conférence des présidents d'université, this competition, inspired by the 3 Minute Thesis launched by the University of Queensmand (Australia), aims to make people understand their research in three minutes and to the greatest number.
- MESR - doctorate
- MESR - doctoral training
- MESR - doctoral funding
- MESR - professional integration of doctoral students
- ANDès - National Association of Doctors
- Campus France - French agency for the promotion of higher education, hospitality and international mobility
- CGE - Conférence des Grandes écoles - "publications" section
- CJC - Confederation of Young Researchers
- Kastler Foundation
- Intelli'agence - Bernard Gregory Association
- HCERES - High Council for Research and Higher Education
Search for a thesis
- theses.fr search engine for French theses. Theses.fr is the national reference platform for listing and accessing doctoral theses available online
- An extraction of all data relating to doctoral theses defended since 1985 is available online at data.gouv.fr: https: //www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/theses-soutenues-en-france-depuis-1985/
- Catalogue Sudoc: national bibliography of theses. Consult the help page dedicated to thesis research in the Sudoc
Access the full text of the theses
In France
Numerous open archives and distribution platforms have been set up by doctoral-accredited institutions and/or IST operators such as CCSD (Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).
- HAL theses : open archive managed by the CCSD for the open access distribution of doctoral theses
- AURORE : platform for student work at the University of Limoges (doctoral theses, practice theses, dissertations)
- CITHER: INSA Lyon thesis portal
- ENS - Institut Français de l'Éducation: portal to theses defended in France since 2003 in the fields of education and training.
- OATAO: Open Archive Toulouse Archive Ouverte
- PASTEL: ParisTech online theses / HAL ParisTech portal collection
- PEPITE: the University of Lille's institutional archive provides access to doctoral theses, practice theses, teaching resources and speech therapy dissertations.
On the international scene
- ADT : theses defended in the 22 largest Australian universities
- BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: meta-search engine referencing and providing access to over 120 million full-text academic documents, including theses
- BICTEL: common directory of electronic theses of the universities of the French community of Belgium
- DART-Europe: full-text theses from 28 European countries
- Dialnet : portal of Spanish theses in SHS
- DissOnline: Database of German electronic theses
- DIVA : database of theses and research papers from 28 Scandinavian universities
- EThOS: UK electronic theses database
- NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
- OATD: Open Access Theses and Dissertations, a portal set up by the library of Wake Forest University (USA), which harvests several international directories of electronic theses in open access
- RERODOC : electronic library of the RERO network (network of French-speaking Switzerland) including books, theses, dissertations in full text
- Shodhganga: reservoir of Indian theses.
- Teseo: catalogue of doctoral theses defended in Spanish universities
- Theses Canada : catalog of theses and dissertations produced in Canadian universities
- Toubk@l : national catalogue of theses and dissertations of Morocco
Access to current thesis topics
- Otrohati : reporting on theses being prepared in Moroccan doctoral study centres.
- theses.fr: listing of theses being prepared in French higher education institutions.
Buy a reproduced thesis
From 1986 to 2016, theses deposited in printed form were reproduced on microfiche by the ANRT - Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses. The mission of the ANRT was initially to ensure the reproduction of theses on microfiche and their distribution to institutions. Following thedecree of 25 May 2016, which established the transition to electronic filing for all French doctoral theses, the ANRT ceased this national mission.
On the other hand, the ANRT offers the "Thèse à la carte" service: theses for which a contract has been signed between the ANRT and the author are digitised and reproduced in their entirety, without reworking. These theses are listed in the "Thèse à la carte" catalogue and are available for sale to individuals (teachers, researchers, students ....) and/or organisations (bookshops, libraries, etc.) who request them.
Benchmarks
- Arabesques n°78 (April-May-June 2015): Dossier "The thesis in all its states: filing, reporting, promoting".
- Valorization of academic production - Collection, conservation, dissemination - Mennessier Anne-Laurence ; Daubernat Séverine ; Giloux Marianne ; Mauger Perez Isabelle - BBF, 2011, n°1
- New thesis repository, new positioning for libraries? -Feedback from the common documentation services of Lille 2 and Valenciennes - Bihan Solenn ; Cambier-Meerschman Perrine ; Granger Sabrina - BBF, 2011, n°1
Studies and reports
- L'état de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche en France (The state of higher education and research in France ) - annual figures published by the MESR (Ministry of Higher Education and Research)
- The French Open Science Barometer - annual statistical monitoring of French doctoral theses available in open access.
- A more favourable integration and employment conditions of PhDs for 2016 graduates compared to 2014 graduates - Note d'information du SIES (September 2021)
- Doctors of engineering: the choice of a professional insertion in the private sector - Note d'information du SIES (September 2020)
- The doctorate in France: from choice to career pursuit - report by the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (July 2020)
- International mobility of young employed PhDs - Note d'information du SIES (October 2019)
- L'état de l'emploi scientifique en France - biennial statistical publication by MESRI (2018 edition)
- Repères et références statistiques - MESR annual publication
- CIFRE PhD - article by Romain Perronnet (UPEC) and Nahla Salameh Bchara (École des Mines de Saint-Etienne)
- Young doctors; profile, career path, integration - APEC quantitative study (January 2015)
- The professional future of young PhDs: what path, what insertion 5 years after the thesis? - qualitative study by APEC (October 2014)
- The University and the professional world: what are the challenges for the doctorate? - Labex Hastec conference (January 2013)
- The insertion of the doctors - Interrogation in 2012 of the doctors who graduated in 2007 - CEREQ survey - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications (November 2013)
History of the doctorate and the deposit of theses
- Becoming scholars: theses and doctorates of letters in the 19th century: virtual exhibition
- Carnet Es lettres - Les thèses de doctorat ès lettres en France au XIXe siècle: this notebook contains posts and actions linked to the "Es lettres" project, whose aim is to study the corpus of doctoral theses in literature defended in the 19th century.
- Theses and other academic writings: identification and location: despite some obsolete information, this guide published by the BnF in 2005, contains interesting information on the history of the doctorate as well as a chronology of legislative texts on the deposit of theses from 1923 to 1985
- Françoise Huguet, Les thèses de doctorat ès lettres soutenues en France de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à 1940 (Doctor of Letters theses defended in France from the end of the 18th century to 1940), November 2009 - LARHRA - Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes, UMR CNRS 5190 - online
- Edouard Des Places, Cent cinquante ans du doctorat es lettres (1810-1960), Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé,4e série, 2, juin 1969, p.209-228 - online