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Dissertations & Conference Proceedings
Dissertations and theses, and conference papers and proceedings are sometimes considered to be grey literature, but separate search tools exist for these types of material. Dissertations and theses can be searched for through:
- Open Access Theses and DissertationsTheses and dissertations, free to find, free to use.
- British Library EThOSPretty complete collection of recent British dissertations and thesis, though not all are digitized, and there may be costs for digitization.
Disciplinary databases such as Sociological Abstracts Online and PsycInfo often have references for dissertations and conference papers but only rarely have the full text of such items.
Conference papers can be found through:
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1989–present. Access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and/or Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This resource has broad, multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly articles. A feature that is somewhat unique to this resource is citation searching; using an important historic reference one can see the more recent articles that cited the key reference. Part of Web of Knowledge.
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