Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest)
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Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest)
A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. 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. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, nearly one million are available for download in PDF format. (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).
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Accountancy
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Africana Studies
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Arab and Islamic Studies
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Art History
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Asian Studies
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Biology
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Catholicism in the U.S.
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Christian Marriage
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Classical Studies
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Criminal Justice
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Cultural Studies
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Decision Making
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East Asian Comparative Literature
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Economics and Statistics
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Education and Human Services
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El Cuento Literario
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English
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Environmental History of America
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Ethics of Life and Death
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Finance
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Gender and Women's Studies
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Genocide and Mass Killing
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History
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Information Systems
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Irish Studies
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Japanese Film
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Japanese Literature in English Translation
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La Edad Media en el Cine
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Latin American Studies
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Management and Operations
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Marketing and Business Law
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Music
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Nursing and Medicine
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Philosophy
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Postmodernity & Spanish Novel
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Pro-Seminar in Sustainability Studies
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Psychology
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Public Administration
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Religion in Russia
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Research Seminar
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Romance Languages and Literatures
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Russian Studies
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Senior Seminar in Sociology
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Senior Seminar in Theory and Research
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Sociology
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Spanish Research Seminar
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Teetotalers to Transcendentalists: A History of Nineteenth-Century Reform
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Test Instruments in Business
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Test Instruments in Education
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Test Instruments in Psychology
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Theatre
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Theology and Religious Studies
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Theology Proseminar
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Écrivaines et Femmes Cinéastes des 19e et 20e Siècles
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