Dissertation Databases

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Coverage: 1861 -
Description: Indexing & authors' abstracts for 90% of doctoral dissertations and some masters theses accepted each year in North America, plus thousands more from around the world. Includes free full-text (in PDF) to all U-M and CIC/Big Ten Universities' dissertations since 1997.
Access: Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
Description: DDM-Online is a database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Its more than 11,000 records include the contents of the 2d international edition (1984) and the 2d series, 2d cumulative edition (1996) of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, along with all dissertations submitted since the 1996 edition.
Access: Open to all internet users.

WorldCat (OCLC Online Union Catalog) [FirstSearch]
Coverage: Current cumulative file. (Describes library-held materials dated from prehistory to the present.)
Description: Over 40 million citations to books, periodicals, sound recordings, videos, musical scores, archival materials and much more, representing holdings of most libraries in North America and some in Europe.
Access: Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature [CSA]
Coverage: 1967 -
Description: An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines, in 202 languages, classified by topic. Includes original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English.
Access: Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).