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Description: Abstract Background and rationale: Swiss social work undergraduate students from HES-SO have published over 3500 bachelor theses so far (Vuillème, 2020). A few of these theses were found (Vuillème, 2020) to be available as full-text online in the RERO DOC database and were also included in CORE, whilst bachelor theses not part of RERO DOC could not be found in CORE. It is currently not known in how many international databases these bachelor theses can be found. This work is meant as an extension of (Vuillème, 2020). Objective: To identify in which multidisciplinary or social work bibliographic databases 2 Bachelor theses published by HES-SO social work students are currently indexed. Methods: I purposively selected 2 Bachelor theses published by HES-SO students from HETS Geneva (Cavin, Lebet, & Pauchard, 2011) (Diener, Joye, & Pellicciotta, 2013). I then searched these 2 bachelor theses in the following databases: BASE, Scopus, CINAHL (EBSCOhost), DeepDyve, Ingenta Connect, Jurn, Microsoft Academic, OpenEdition, Project MUSE, Ovid Psycinfo and ScienceOpen. The searches were done following a two steps strategy which involved 1) a full-title search and 2) a focused search using the first author name and publication year. Results: Searches in the BASE, Scopus, CINAHL, DeepDyve, Ingenta Connect, Jurn, Microsoft Academic, OpenEdition, Project MUSE, Ovid Psycinfo and ScienceOpen databases were done on February 4 and February 5, 2020. Searches in the Google Google Scholar RERO DOC RERO Explore OpenGrey CORE Worldcat Swissbib databases were done on January 20, 2020. (Cavin, Lebet, & Pauchard, 2011) was indexed in a total of 10 databases (Google, Google Scholar, RERO DOC, RERO Explore, CORE, Worldcat, Swissbib, BASE, Jurn and Microsoft Academic) whilst (Diener, Joye, & Pellicciotta, 2013) was indexed in a total of 5 databases (Google, Google Scholar, RERO Explore, Worldcat and Swissbib). Limitations: This project was done by a single author with no academic qualifications and the searches may not have been sufficiently sensitive. The 2 bachelor theses might thus actually be available in additional databases. Only 2 bachelor theses from a single HETS (HETS Geneva) were selected, a sample likely too small to generalize the findings. The bachelor theses were purposively selected and might not be representative of how other theses are indexed. Conclusions: The bachelor thesis included in RERO DOC could be found in 10 databases (out of 18) whilst the one not part of RERO DOC could be found in 5 databases. These anecdotal results suggest works included in RERO DOC are available more broadly than similar works not part of RERO DOC. Funding: No funding was received for this work. Data and materials: Included within this manuscript. Keywords: Social work, indexing, Switzerland, bachelor thesis, case study, HES-SO