Dissertations, Dissertations-in-Progress, and Open Acess (ETDs)

Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music (Royal Holloway)
Their introductory page (scroll to bottom) includes key links to additional European dissertation inventories online (scroll to the bottom of their page).

B.U. Community Information:
Be sure to consult the Research Guide for Writers of Theses and Dissertations for your submission requirements; prepared by thesis coordinator Brendan McDermott.

Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Dissertations and Theses) -- Full text 1861+ BU-px
our expanded access subscription includes free full-text to most post-1997 works; the selection is expanding as the vendor is able to provide more retrospecitively. The majority of dissertations are contributed by North American institutions.

PDQT Open -- the open access portion of Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Dissertations and Theses). Several thousand dissertations have been designated by their authors as free and open access.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (A.M.S.)
Register your topic here; this site Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (Cecil Adkins, ed.), a print publication of the American Musicological Society begun in 1951. A retrospective online database of dissertations as compiled under Adkins is in preparation.

"Im Jahre ... angenommene musikwissenschaftliche Dissertationen' appears annually within the journal Die Musikforschung (ML 5 . F48, issued quarterly). Works-in-progress in the German language and based from insitutions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland are announced.

MTO Dissertation Index
Compiled by the Society for Music Theory, and published in their Music Theory Online; compiles selected newer works chiefly in theory and analysis, includes abstracts.

Open Access : two significant directories

ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repositories
For example: in the Geographic Country pull-down, you could select United States and under the pull-down for any content type, select e-theses(for both theses and dissertations).

OpenDOAR -- academic repositories
Search across multiple repositories witin multiple institutions; primarily open access material (articles, dissertations, and more) is retrieved.

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