Beside individual university libraries (ETD's) and Proquest/UMI Dissertation Abstracts, does anyone know other commercial sources/sites where either a full or abstracts of the dissertations are available for free preview or purchase? Thank you.
The only source I knew for the general puplic to view dissertation abstracts was Contentville.com, but they've closed.
There are databases around but access is the problem. Even being an enrolled student doesn't guarantee you access to the large databases because their subscriptions are so expensive that they tend to be among the first things to go when budgets get tightened up. If you find a school that still has a subscription to one of these databases you can usually arrange to pay them to do the search for you and then mail/email/fax you the results. In the meantime, try these: http://star.nrf.ac.za/index.html http://www.dissertationsandtheses.com Good luck, Jack