Friday, July 29, 2005
Dissertations/Theses Sites from LIBREF-L@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
Abes: Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur Citations to French dissertations.
Australian Digital Theses Program This site provides both citation and full-text access to a few thousand theses and dissertations published in Australia.
The British Library The British Library provides access to citations of theses from British universities (most doctoral theses from the early 1970s onward), from the United States (475,000 doctoral theses), and from Canada (several hundred doctoral theses from 1980 forward).
Center for Research Libraries Twenty thousand doctoral dissertations from outside of the United States and Canada are searchable from this site. Items can be ordered through ILL by students, faculty, and staff.
Cybertheses Cybertheses allows access to citations of French dissertations from 1972 to the present.
Digital Library and Archives Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.
Directory of Dissertations in Progress "The Directory contains 3,804 dissertations in progress at 170 academic departments in Canada and the U.S." This is a citation database of dissertations in progress in the area of history.
Dissertation.com Dissertation.com has just a few hundred dissertations and theses in its collection, but the site allows free, full-text access to the first twenty-five pages of each item.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology This is an international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 12,000 records. Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present.
NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NDLTD provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. A significant number of these resources are freely available in full-text and can be viewed online.
PhdData: The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress PhdData has citations from several thousand dissertations in progress from various parts of the world.
Proquest Digital Dissertations Proquest provides the past two years of citations and abstracts in their Digital Dissertations database at no cost.
Theses Canada Portal
Theses Canada provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection. Access to full-text theses is available for all items published between January 1, 1998 to August 31, 2002.
Theses Link Collection This site gives links to dissertation/theses search sites in many different countries, including Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway.
TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network TREN provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers. Items can then be purchased through this site. The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.
Abes: Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur Citations to French dissertations.
Australian Digital Theses Program This site provides both citation and full-text access to a few thousand theses and dissertations published in Australia.
The British Library The British Library provides access to citations of theses from British universities (most doctoral theses from the early 1970s onward), from the United States (475,000 doctoral theses), and from Canada (several hundred doctoral theses from 1980 forward).
Center for Research Libraries Twenty thousand doctoral dissertations from outside of the United States and Canada are searchable from this site. Items can be ordered through ILL by students, faculty, and staff.
Cybertheses Cybertheses allows access to citations of French dissertations from 1972 to the present.
Digital Library and Archives Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.
Directory of Dissertations in Progress "The Directory contains 3,804 dissertations in progress at 170 academic departments in Canada and the U.S." This is a citation database of dissertations in progress in the area of history.
Dissertation.com Dissertation.com has just a few hundred dissertations and theses in its collection, but the site allows free, full-text access to the first twenty-five pages of each item.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology This is an international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 12,000 records. Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present.
NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NDLTD provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. A significant number of these resources are freely available in full-text and can be viewed online.
PhdData: The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress PhdData has citations from several thousand dissertations in progress from various parts of the world.
Proquest Digital Dissertations Proquest provides the past two years of citations and abstracts in their Digital Dissertations database at no cost.
Theses Canada Portal
Theses Canada provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection. Access to full-text theses is available for all items published between January 1, 1998 to August 31, 2002.
Theses Link Collection This site gives links to dissertation/theses search sites in many different countries, including Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway.
TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network TREN provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers. Items can then be purchased through this site. The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Sources for Book Reviews
ABI INFORM
CBCA
CANADIAN NEWSTAND
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ONLINE (Eebsco host)
HUMANITIES FULLTEXT (part of WilsonWeb)
GLOBE & MAIL and TORONTO STAR
PSYCCRITIQUES (reviews of psych publications)
PROQUEST NURSING JOURNALS
(just like cbca and canadian newsstand: same proquest interface)
REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
SOCIAL SCIENCES (part of WilsonWeb)
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST Z1219 .C95
BOOK REVIEW INDEX Z1007 .B6
Plus the Windsor Star and other papers which will be in Canadian Newstand or CBCA.
ABI INFORM
CBCA
CANADIAN NEWSTAND
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ONLINE (Eebsco host)
HUMANITIES FULLTEXT (part of WilsonWeb)
GLOBE & MAIL and TORONTO STAR
PSYCCRITIQUES (reviews of psych publications)
PROQUEST NURSING JOURNALS
(just like cbca and canadian newsstand: same proquest interface)
REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
SOCIAL SCIENCES (part of WilsonWeb)
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST Z1219 .C95
BOOK REVIEW INDEX Z1007 .B6
Plus the Windsor Star and other papers which will be in Canadian Newstand or CBCA.
Business students in at least one class have been instructed to begin their research in:
SEDAR and MORNINGSTAR
SEDAR and MORNINGSTAR
