American Dissertation Proposals with examples across humanities, social science and science disciplines. They may be useful for ideas on structure, rhetorical moves and language for research proposals.
DoctoralWritingSIG is a forum where people who are interested in doctoral writing can come together to share information, resources, ideas, dreams and create a research community
The Research Whisperer is dedicated to the topic of doing research in academia. The blog talks about finding funding, research culture, and building academic track-records.
The National Library of Australia's free discovery service providing resources such as books, conference proceedings, thesis, images, journals, digitised newspapers and web sites on content related to Australia. Includes Australasian Digital Theses and Australian Research Online (ARO).
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