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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses and includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world, though largely from the US, covering 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Oxford has access to the Humanities and Social Sciences collections.

Full Text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master’s theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available it provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.

Please note that while you can do full-text searching across the dissertations, the database doesn’t take you there and subsequent PDF searching doesn’t seem to work. We will report this to the provider.

Related databases: Index to Theses, Oxford University Research Archive (ORA), Theses completed and in progress (Institute for Historical Research)