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Finding Archival Collections and Primary Documents

Why Dissertations?

Dissertation bibliographies can be a goldmine for identifying primary source materials and collections.

Finding Dissertations & Theses

Dissertations and Theses Global
Index to doctoral dissertations and master's theses. American doctoral dissertations indexed back to 1861. Works added to the database since 1997 are available in full text; selected full text for earlier years. Rutgers-restricted Access
Center for Research Libraries
CRL holds an extensive collection of internationanl dissertations and will order titles not held if requested by Rutgers or any other member institution. The Dissertations subset of the catalog can be searched separately. Materials not owned by Rutgers may be requested through interlibrary loan.
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