Electronic Theses Databases

Many Institutes/Universities along with other R&D organizations have taken up initiatives to put up all their academic document repositories such as Master's or PhD theses online. Most of them have used Open Source Software - DSpace.
These resources definitely help a lot to young students or researchers or academicians...

Following are the few links to such thesis or other documents such as research paper of few Institutes (mostly Indian though):

ISI Kolkata                                      
IISC Banglaore  
IIT Kharagpur                              
IIT Delhi            
IIT Bombay        
IIT Madras          
NIT Rourkela    
Jadavpur University
IACS Kolkata  
Anna University        
University of Hyderabad  
Mysore University  
Cochin University of Science & Technology  
IMSc Chennai    

IIIT Delhi                  

IGNOU                

MIT
John Hopkins University
University of Queensland Australia
Waterloo University Canada
NTU Singapore
NUS Singapore
Imperial College London
Eindhoven University of Technology

World-wide users of DSpace can be found in http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace to get more list of such links...

UGC mandates submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in Indian universities with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. As per the UGC Regulation, the responsibility of hosting, maintaining and making the digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertation, Shodhganga, accessible to all institutions and universities, is assigned to the INFLIBNET Centre.

The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET is set-up using an open source digital repository software called DSpace developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in partnership between Hewlett- Packard (HP).