Contents

Database Description

Dissertation Abstracts Online is a definitive subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962. In addition, since 1988, the database includes citations for dissertations from 50 British universities that have been collected by and filmed at The British Document Supply Centre. Beginning with DAIC Volume 49, Number 2 (Spring 1988), citations and abstracts from Section C, Worldwide Dissertations (formerly European Dissertations), have been included in the file.

Abstracts are included for doctoral records from July 1980 (Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume 41, Number 1) to the present. Abstracts are included for masters theses from Spring 1988 (Masters Abstracts, Volume 26, Number 1) to the present.

Subject Coverage

• Agriculture
• Astronomy
• Biological and Environmental Sciences
• Business and Economics
• Chemistry
• Education
• Engineering
• Fine Arts and Music
• Geography and Regional Planning
• Geology
• Health Sciences
• History and Political Science
• Language and Literature
• Library and Information Science
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Philosophy and Religion
• Physics
• Psychology and Sociology

Dialog File Data

Contact

Terms and Conditions

ABI/INFORM^®, ONTAP^® ABI/INFORM, Accounting & Tax^TM Database, Banking Information Source^TM, Business Dateline^®, Criminal Justice Periodical Index^TM, Dissertation Abstracts Online^TM, Newspaper Abstracts Daily^TM, Periodical Abstracts PlusText^TM, Pharmaceutical News Index^®, and ProQuest Newsstand^TM. The databases listed above (the "Databases") contain copyrighted materials of ProQuest Information and Learning and its licensors which retain sole ownership of these materials. Only fair use, as provided by the Copyright Act of 1976 is permitted. ProQuest Information and Learning and its licensors make no warranties, express or implied, as to the Databases or the entries that constitute them, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not be liable for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or lost profits or other claims related to them or their use.

Material contained in any Database may not be made available in any manner whatsoever to a third party or duplicated, redistributed or archived except solely for the customer's own internal use and according only to (1) the Terms & Conditions in Dialog's Standard Service Agreement and (2) the terms and conditions contained below.

A user may not:

• redistribute, copy or electronically store (archive) all or a majority of records from a Database or a single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases,
• electronically store (archive) in machine-readable form material older than the most recent twelve-month period retrieved from the Databases under the DIALOG ERA service archival feature,
• delete or remove from any copyright notice or legend or the name of the Database from which data was retrieved,
• republish, distrivute or make available in any manner whatsoever to third parties who are not part of the user's organization data retrieved archived from the Databases,
• use any records or data to create a derivative work except for a compilation of electronically stored data for internal use only, and
• electronically store in machine-readable form for longer than ten (10) days records or data retrieved for internal redistribution under the DIALOG ERA service (non-archival storage).