The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities in North America and from around the globe. The database includes citations for materials from 1861 to present. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Dissertations & Theses offers UCSB users access to UC dissertations in full-text digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.
Date Coverage: 1861 - present
Materials Indexed: Theses & Dissertations
An index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.
Date Coverage: varies
Materials Indexed: Books; Theses & Dissertations
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that promotes creation, access to, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from academic institutions around the world. The NDLTD Union Catalog provides access to over a million ETDs.
NOTE: This title may be temporarily unavailable due to China's regulatory authority audit. CNKI Thesis & Dissertation Database provides full-text access to theses and dissertations from a selection of major universities in China. Access includes all non-STEM modules.
Duxiu is a comprehensive Chinese studies database. It provides full text search capability to more than 600,000,000 volumes of e-books, dissertations, journals, magazines, web pages and newspapers. The first 17 pages of each e-book are available for preview. Document delivery is also available. Its comprehensiveness and functionality can be best related as the Chinese version of Google Books and Google Scholar.
