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Dissertations & Theses

American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955
Comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities between 1933 and 1955.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science)
Indexing and abstracts of millions of peer-reviewed articles in the arts and humanities disciplines. Also includes book chapters, conference papers and other formats. Cited and citing reference searching.
BIOSIS Previews (via Web of Science)
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Indexes worldwide biological and medical literature. Includes Biological Abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1969 to present. Select BIOSIS Previews from the pull down menu beside the Web of Science Core Collection heading.
EThOS
The United Kingdom's national thesis service which provides full text access to many dissertations collected from more than 120 institutions.
IRDB – Institutional Repositories DataBase
A project of Japan's National Institute of Informatics, the Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) collects the metadata of academic resources (i.e., journal articles, theses and dissertations, departmental bulletins, research papers, etc.) across academic institutional repositories in Japan. The accumulated metadata are freely searchable in IRDB, as well as in other academic platforms (e.g., CiNii and NDL Search in Japan, and OpenAIRE in the European Union).

In 2019, IRDB superseded Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JAIRO), an index of over 1 million academic resources, with links to full text of more than 75% of the same.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
An international organization dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Doctoral dissertations, masters theses, and honors papers by students at OhioLINK member colleges and universities.
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Freely available masters theses and doctoral dissertations from around the world.
PapersFirst
Indexes papers presented at meetings around the world. Dates of coverage: 1993 to date
ProceedingsFirst
Indexes papers presented at conferences, meetings, symposia, etc. Dates of coverage: 1993 to date
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I
Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses on all subjects from around the world. Previews and full text available for some titles.
Science Citation Index (via Web of Science)
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Indexing and abstracts of millions of peer-reviewed articles in all scientific disciplines. Also includes technical reports, book chapters, conference papers and other formats. Cited and citing reference searching.
Web of Science
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Scholarly literature in the sciences, health and medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities and proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Includes cited reference searching across many databases. Search all databases in Web of Science (includes Medline and BIOSIS, direct link for on-campus users). Dates of coverage: 1965 to present.