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A good starting point for finding doctoral dissertations and Masters Theses, by St. John's students and others
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Dissertation & Theses Databases

Finding extant research for a Literature review is an important part of the Thesis and Dissertation process. In addition to searches for Journal articles, books and proceedings within your discipline, searching through other dissertations (which may not be indexed in the major subject databses) offers a wealth of salient data and recent resources, in addition to preventing "academic" heartache down the road.

  • The Role and Nature of the Doctoral Dissertation
    Council of Graduate Schools of the U.S, ERIC #: ED331422
  • WorldCat (OCLC)
    Checking for titles at sponsoring Universities, some universities provide access to full-text PDFs for free. Also helpful for conducting a more through literature review, and for adding books to your refworks account (through the export feature)
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
    An index to Doctoral Dissertations and a limited number of Master’s theses (1861 - ). Abstracts of dissertations (1980 - ), and full-text (1997-). Some full-text access, and some supplemental files available, including raw data, videos, Spreadsheets, PPTs, etc. NOTE: Abstracts of dissertations prior to 1980 must be obtained via the Libraries' interlibrary loan service.
  • Directory of Dissertations in Progress  
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    "contains 3,822 dissertations in progress at 179 academic departments in Canada and the U.S."
  • Center for Research Libraries  
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    "CRL has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations, of which approximately 20,000 are included in this database."
  • DDM Online  
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    "DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, & ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines."
  • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog  
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    Selective grouping of full-text of Dissertations available online - no charge.
  • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations  
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    NDLTD "is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations."
  • Virginia  
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    "a clearing-house for online information related to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the humanities. [It is] a directory of most ... of the ETDs that are currently in progress in the various disciplines that comprise the academic humanities."
  • Directory of Conference Proceedings  
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    Locate published conference proceedings.
 

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Dissertation resources compiled by: Charles Livermore and Kathryn Shaughnessy

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