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MFT 8321 : Theory Building in Family Sciences

This is a guide to library resources in the MFT 8321: Theory Building in Family Sciences course. Here you will find databases, electronic journals, tutorials, and other information.

Dissertation Databases - Where to Start

  • The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses on humanities and social sciences.
  • Serves as the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research.   
  • Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day.  
  • Over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.   
  • Offers full-text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.     
  • More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide
  •  You can limit your search to full-text dissertations, date of publication, and university/institution.                           

Other Databases Where You Can Find Disseratations

  • WorldCat has over 2 billion items to search. 
  • You can limit your search in WorldCat is to just dissertations.
  • WorldCat also has dissertations that are not available in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Search for Dissertations in ALL Databases Simultaneously

  • EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) allows students to search almost all of our databases at the same time. By performing a search, and then limiting your search by source type to Dissertations/Theses, you can obtain a list of dissertations by subject.
    • Please view the images below to see how you can complete a subject search in EDS and then limit the source type to dissertations and theses only.
  • Many of the dissertations found through EBSCO Discovery Service are available full-text through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. 
  • You can search all the databases where dissertations are available at one time.

1. You can access EDS by using the search bar on the West Library website's home page

 

2. When the EDS search results page loads - click on the "Source type" drop-down limiter and check the "Dissertations/Theses" box and click "Apply"