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Thèses.fr is the search engine for French doctoral theses set up by ABES in 2011. This unique tool is supplied by the thesis-supporting institutions. It lists theses in preparation for the last 10 years in all disciplines and all institutions, as well as all theses defended since 1985.

Moteur de recherche des thèses de doctorat françaises, le site theses.fr a pour objet de référencer :

• les thèses de doctorat en cours de préparation en France, si l'établissement d'inscription a fait le choix de les signaler et si le ou la doctorant(e) ne s'est pas opposé(e) à ce signalement.
• les thèses de doctorat soutenues en France depuis 1985, quel que soit le support matériel de la thèse (imprimé ou numérique).
• les personnes et les organismes en lien avec ces thèses.

Une base de données alimentée par les établissements de soutenance

theses.fr est la vitrine de données produites et validées par les différents personnels des établissements de l’enseignement supérieur français habilités à délivrer le doctorat (services de scolarité, écoles doctorales, bibliothèques et centres de documentation, services d’appui à la recherche…)

Les données affichées sur theses.fr proviennent des applications sources suivantes :

• STEP (Signalement des Thèses en Préparation) pour les thèses en préparation
• STAR (Signalement des Thèses et Archivage) pour les thèses soutenues déposées au format électronique
• le catalogue collectif Sudoc pour les thèses soutenues déposées au format imprimé, les microfiches de thèses, les reproductions de thèses sur support imprimé ou électronique, ainsi que les thèses publiées chez un éditeur.

La base de données theses.fr tend à référencer l’ensemble des thèses de doctorat soutenues en France depuis 1985. Les lacunes peuvent être signalées via ABESstp, le guichet d’assistance en ligne de l’Abes .

En revanche, theses.fr ne référence pas :

• les Habilitations à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)
• les thèses d’exercice donnant lieu à la délivrance du diplôme d’Etat de docteur (en médecine, pharmacie, chirurgie dentaire ou chirurgie vétérinaire) 
• les thèses de doctorat étrangères (y compris celles rédigées en français) 
• les thèses de doctorat françaises soutenues avant 1985

Une interface et des API

Les données de theses.fr sont accessibles via le site www.theses.fr grâce à un moteur de recherche et une navigation à facettes. Un guide d’utilisation du moteur de recherche est mis à la disposition des utilisateurs. Conformément à la politique d’ouverture des données de l’Abes, theses.fr s’inscrit dans le mouvement du web de données et du linked data.

Les données brutes relèvent du domaine public et sont placées sous licence Etalab . Elles sont disponibles via une API XML .

Pour favoriser leur réutilisation, les données relatives aux thèses soutenues sont également disponibles sous forme d’un dump déposé et mis à jour annuellement sur le site data.gouv.fr : Thèses soutenues en France depuis 1985 . Un guide de réutilisation accompagne l’extraction.

Historique du projet « Portail des thèses »

Theses.fr v1, objectifs initiaux du projet.

theses.fr est une des applications du projet « Portail des thèses », confié à l’Abes en 2009 par le Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. Le comité de décision et d’opération du projet « Portail des thèses » a validé les principales orientations d’une feuille de route qui comportait trois axes principaux :

• Renforcer la visibilité nationale et internationale de la recherche doctorale française  : theses.fr expose largement sur le web les données décrivant les thèses de doctorat
• Servir le monde académique  : theses.fr permet à la communauté scientifique d'avoir une connaissance aussi exacte que possible de l'état de la recherche doctorale en cours, au niveau national, local, par disciplines ou par thématiques de recherche
• Servir le monde économique  : en valorisant les travaux des doctorants et des docteurs, theses.fr vise à faciliter l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes chercheurs

Gouvernance du projet et principaux partenaires

Pour mener à bien theses.fr, l’Abes s’est entourée de nombreux partenaires.

Composition du Comité de décision et d’opération (CDO) du projet :

• trois représentants du Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur de la recherche : Mission de l'information scientifique et technique et du réseau documentaire (MISTRD), Direction générale pour l'enseignement supérieur et l'insertion professionnelle (DGESIP), Direction générale pour la recherche et l'innovation (DGRI)
• un représentant de la Conférence des Présidents d’Université
• un représentant de la Conférence des Grandes Ecoles
• un représentant des formations doctorales dans les établissements habilités
• deux représentants de la recherche privée ou du monde économique
• trois représentants des opérateurs documentaires nationaux des thèses en France : CNRS-INIST , Atelier national de reproduction des thèses de Lille , CINES
• trois représentants d’associations : l’Intelli’Agence (Association Bernard Gregory), l’ADBU (association des directeurs de bibliothèques universitaires), l’AURA (association du réseau des utilisateurs des produits de l’Abes)

Les comptes-rendus de décisions du CDO ont fait l’objet de billets sur le blog de l’Abes .

Versement progressif des données

Le versement dans theses.fr des données relatives aux thèses de doctorat françaises s’est fait progressivement :

• Juillet 2011 : ouverture du site theses.fr qui, dans un premier temps, référence uniquement les thèses soutenues depuis 2006 et déposées au format électronique.

Elles sont 6 000 à être référencées en 2011.

• Septembre 2011 : intégration des sujets de thèses en préparation. Les données du Fichier Central des Thèses (FCT) sont versées dans theses.fr, soit plus de 66 000 sujets de thèses, principalement en Lettres, Sciences Humaines et Sociales. La même année, le FCT, maintenu par l’Université Paris Nanterre, est remplacé par l’application STEP, maintenue par l’Abes, ouverte à l’ensemble des établissements, toutes disciplines confondues.

L’utilisation de STEP étant facultative, tous les établissements ne référencent pas dans STEP et theses.fr les thèses préparées en leur sein. Le nombre d’établissements adhérents à STEP va néanmoins augmenter au fil des années. 

• Mai 2013 : versement des données du Sudoc dans theses.fr. Toutes les thèses soutenues en France et archivées au format imprimé depuis 1985 sont destinées à être référencées dans theses.fr.

En 2013, elles représentent près de 250 000 documents.

• Septembre 2016 : le dépôt électronique des thèses est rendu obligatoire.

Le nombre de thèses imprimées référencées dans theses.fr se stabilise à 300 000 : il n’augmentera plus que de manière marginale.

Depuis 2017, le nombre de thèses électroniques référencées augmente d’environ 14 000 documents chaque année.

Désormais, la quasi-totalité des établissements qui délivrent le doctorat signalent les sujets de thèses préparés en leur sein.

Theses.fr v2

A partir du printemps 2022, l’Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur lance le projet de refonte du site theses.fr.

Les objectifs sont :

• la refonte complète du socle technique : l’outil SolR est remplacé par Elastic Search
• le développement d’une interface ergonomique, responsive et accessible
• la mise en place d’un accès contrôlé, centralisé, aux thèses dont la diffusion est restreinte au périmètre de l’enseignement supérieur français

Le site est développé en grande partie en interne, y compris la partie graphique. Un prestataire externe est engagé pendant un an pour appuyer l’équipe technique sur le moteur de recherche consacré aux personnes.

La nouvelle version de theses.fr est déployée en production en 2024.

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Exploring the corpus of doctoral theses

Theses.fr, search engine for french theses.

The theses. fr search engine provides users with descriptive data on approximately (data as of August 31, 2022) :

• 431,758 doctoral theses defended in France since 1985 
• 81,000 theses in preparation 

As a document search interface, theses. fr offers functionalities adapted to the following operations:

• identification of a doctoral project (ongoing or completed)
• identifying the different versions of a thesis - including the one validated by the jury
• access to the full text of an online thesis (if available)
• possibility to buy a thesis in an online bookshop (if available)
• compilation of a bibliography
• identification of teacher-researchers leading doctoral projects
• identification of the composition of the juries
• identification of research structures and supporting institutions
• identification of libraries that have a thesis available for consultation on site or via an interlibrary loan (ILL) request

Associated services

The theses.fr interface provides the following associated services :

• results management : query results can be exported in different formats (TXT, XML, CSV, RIS, BIBTEX, JSON)
• visualization by word cloud of the main scientific fields associated with a contributor (authors, research director, jury members...)
• sharing options on social networks
• monitoring : possibility to record requests and to be notified of new developments (RSS subscription)

The catalogueSudoc, national bibliography of theses

The catalogue Sudoc lists doctoral theses defended in France since 1972 , as well as medical and dental theses defended since 1982 and available for consultation at the BIUS - Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé .

Since the implementation of the reporting of electronic theses via the professional application STAR, the data produced in this context feed the catalogue Sudoc. In addition, the Sudoc is progressively enriched in the context of retrospective reporting of older theses.

• see the page dedicated to the catalogue Sudoc

Note : the conditions of consultation and loan - on site or remotely - vary according to the institutions and the type of user. However, the legislation in force implies that a version of each defended thesis is made available by the defending institution, with the exception of certain theses for which a period of confidentiality is required

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Système Universitaire de Documentation (SUDOC): l'ensemble des thèses produites en France.

ABES Thèses . Accès à près de 6000 thèses de doctorat soutenues depuis 2006, de surcroît en texte intégral pour 4000 d’entre elles.

TEL (thèses-en-ligne) a pour objectif de promouvoir l'auto-archivage en ligne des thèses.

Cyberthèses : L'Université Lyon 2

Archive ouverte de l'Université de Lorraine

Helveticat . The Swiss National Library has a copy of all dissertations written in the country. Add the word “diss” to your search terms in order to retrieve dissertations.

EthOs : British Library dissertations

Buy Your Own

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Dissertation Express : US, from ProQuest

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Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses: in France

• All doctoral students deposit a copy with the "Atelier national de reproduction des thèses".
• Who in turn provides microfilms for libraries.
• And also paper copies on demand (you can pay by bank card).

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List of PhD Theses

Consult the list of theses defended in recent years:

• Economics : 2023 - 2022 - 2021 -  2020 -  2019 -  2018 -  2017  -  2016  -  2015  -  2014  -  2013  -  2012
• History : 2023 - 2022 - 2021 -  2020 -  2019 -  2018 -  2017  -  2016  -  2015  -  2014  -  2013  -  2012
• Law : 2023 - 2022 - 2021  -  2020 -  2019 -  2018 -  2017 -  2016 -  2015 -  2014 - 2013
• Political science : 2023 - 2022 - 2021 -  2020 -  2019 -  2018 -  2017 -  2016 -  2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012
• Sociology : 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 -  2019 -  2018 -  2017 -  2016 -  2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012
• Urban studies: 2023  

Updated: August 2024

Useful Documents

Instructions to Prepare the Electronic Thesis for Priting (PDF)

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• Thesis presentation guide (In French, PDF, 540 Ko)
• Submitting theses electronically (PDF)

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• Formating thesis on Word 2007 to 2011 (PDF)

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For most of you, the subject of your thesis will be born from an encounter with a researcher or teacher-researcher, within your teaching and research department (DER), in the Master 1 or Master 2 courses, during a stay in a laboratory in France or abroad, after a seminar...

Thesis topics are thus most of the time subjects proposed by the thesis director. The way it will be treated depends on you.

How to find a topic?

For normaliens: annual interviews with the department.

The idea for a thesis can also be born during annual meetings with your teaching or research department heads, or after consulting websites where subjects are posted or defended.

Check out some of the websites

• For the University of Paris-Saclay, the diffusion of the subjects is done for example via the ADUM tool.
• You can also access the defenses via the ADUM website.

Subjects and defenses are grouped by doctoral school. The institutional sites of other French schools and universities also contain numerous offers.

• The thesis defenses and theses in progress are grouped in a national database that can be consulted.

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The idea for your thesis can also be yours and it will be your responsibility to find a laboratory and a thesis supervisor to co-construct and concretize the project. The financing of a thesis by a doctoral contract specific to Normalien is perfectly adapted to this situation.

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A sampling of dissertations.

• Paule Carbonnel, "To the End(s) of the Earth with Jules Verne (and Beyond): Explorations of Limitedness in Nineteenth-Century France” (2024)
• Lauriane Guihard,  "'Peut-on encore entendre de toi, troupe, quelque voix?' Le Chœur Tragique au XVIe siècle, ou la Renaissance d'un Medium Antique" (2024)
• Nicole Ferrari,  "Skepticism, the Human, and Republics in Alessandro Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables" (2023)
• Marcus Dominick,  " Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France" (2023)
• Tristan Zhang, " From Fantaisie to Histoire: Applying an 'Alsatian Lesson' to China" (2023)
• Fariba Kanga,  "The Construction of the Enemy in French Reformation Martyr Narratives, 1554-1616" (2023)
• Sophie Dolto,  "'Il faudrait cesser d'écrire des romans' : Jean-Patrick Manchette et la politique" (2023)

Hanna  Laruelle,  " Rictus Grin: Poetics of Cruel Humor in Screen Adaptations of "L'homme qui rit" (2022)

Nathalie  Lacarrière ,  " Compilation, Reception, and Authority: Anthologizing Christine de Pizan's Enseignemens moraux in the Middle Ages and Renaissance " (2022)

Jared Miller, "Romance A uctoritas  in  Le Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris  and  Jehan de Saintré " (2022)

Trask Roberts, "Writing and Wronging: Prerogatives of the Self-Translator" (2022)

Fiona Moreno, "The Making of a Distinguished Reader: Francophone Stories of Literary Initiation" (2020)

• Andrea Lloyd, "Writing Verdicts: French and Francophone Narratives of Race and Racism" (2019) 
• Sterling Kouri, "Reading Houellebecq and his Fictions" (2018)
• Marla Epp, "Les chercheurs d'histoire: The Historical Investigator in the Contemporary French Novel." (2018)
• Romain Delaville, “Face Value: Physiognomy, Portraiture, and the Making of Subjectivity in Francophone Literature and Visual Culture" (2017)
• Melissa DunLany, "The Aesthetics of Waste: Michel Tournier, Agnes Varda, Sabine Macher"  (2017)
• Ben Baker, "Uncertain Boundaries: Dispositive Techniques in Prevost's Novels" (2016)
• Adam Cutchin, "The Mysteres of Paris and Montreal: Crime, National Identity, and the City in Nineteenth-Century Urban Mysteries and the Popular Press" (2016)
• Arabella Hobbs, "Calvary or Catastrophe? French Catholicism's First World War" (2016)
• Samuel Martin , "The Dilation of the Poem (Philippe Jaccottet)"  (2016)
• Lisa Bromberg, "Geographies of Exile and the Making of French Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century" (2016)
• George MacLeod, "Approaching the Witness: Narratives of Trauma in Sub-Saharan African Literature and Film" (2015)
• Caroline Grubbs, "Cultures of Time in Fin-de-siecle France: The Popular Literature and Graphic Art of Albert Robida (1848-1926)" (2014)
• Charlotte Ritzmann, "Fictions of Identity in the 13th century: The Example of the Lancelot proper" (2014)
• Anne Bornschein, "Heirs of the Round Table: French Arthurian fiction from 1977 to the present" (2013)
• Lucas Hollister, "Problematic returns: On the romanesque in contemporary French literature" (2013)
• Kathleen Kasten, "Writing luxury: Mirrors, silk, lace, and writing desks in French literature, 1660--1715" (2013)
• Matthew Pagett, "Money plays: Performing currency in seventeenth-century French comedy" (2013)
• Sara Phenix, "Designing women: Fashion, fiction, and femininity in Second Empire France" (2013)
• Ekaterina Alexandrova, "Outlandish fictions: The eighteenth-century French novel and marriage on women's terms" (2012)
• Ian McConnon, "Substance and providence in the Old French theological romance" (2012)
• Lucy Swanson, "Bringing out the undead: Reinventing the zombie in contemporary fiction of the Francophone Caribbean" (2012)

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You may also want to consult these sites to search for other theses:

• Google Scholar
• NDLTD , the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. NDLTD provides information and a search engine for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), whether they are open access or not.
• Proquest Theses and Dissertations (PQDT), a database of dissertations and theses, whether they were published electronically or in print, and mostly available for purchase. Access to PQDT may be limited; consult your local library for access information.