ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global offers access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1637 to the present day together with over 2.7 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year. Millions of titles are available for purchase.
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The Dissertations Bootcamp eLearning Modules are a free resource that help support graduate student planning, writing, and research.
This session reviews how Patrons, can use the database's advanced search to identify known dissertations by title and search/analyze by languages other than English. Duration: 3 minutes.
This session reviews how Patrons can use the database's advanced search to identify dissertations of known Authors or Advisors and further refine/analyze them. Duration: 4 minutes.
This session reviews how Patrons can use the dissertations to retrieve and explore further the Cited References. Duration: 4 minutes.
This session reviews how Patrons can identify dissertations with Supplemental files which may contain useful materials for their research. Duration: 3.5 minutes.
This session will show Patrons some Search techniques both Basic and Advanced to locate dissertations on a certain topic. Duration: 5.5 minutes.
Materials in English - Figures (Database size) and Platform features images now updated as of August 2020
Documentation en français