Regional studies and Urban development: Theses

You can find all theses of Tampere Universities through Andor. Most of the latest theses are available openly online.

There are two ways of searching for theses in Andor.

• Basic search: Limit your search results to theses using Resource Type limiter on the left-hand menu.
• Advanced search: Select Institutional Repositories (Trepo & Theseus) option. In addition to Tampere University's theses in Trepo and Tampere University of Applied Sciences' theses in Theseus, you'll also get Tampere university's researchers' journal articles in the results.

Openly accessible theses can be found also directly through the repositories. In Trepo and Theseus the full text of the thesis is searched. You can also browse the theses there by faculty/degree programme/study subject/field of education.

The theses of the University (since 2019) that are not available openly online, can be read at Theses Access Points (Arvo + Hervanta + Linna) in the library. Dissertations can also be found in library's printed collection. The theses of TAMK (since autumn 2021) that are not available online, can be read at Theses Access Points (TAMK Main Campus) in the library.

Most of the thesis written at Finnish universities can be found through the national Finna search portal. Printed versions of theses can be searched in the respective university library's own catalogue.

If you are looking for information on how to submit your thesis to evaluation, check our guide Submitting your thesis to evaluation.

Thesis from other Finnish universities in electronic form can be found in each university's own institutional repository.