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Comprehensive dissertation index . Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International. v.1- 1861/1972- . Annual.

SML, Main Reference Room Z5055 U49 +D77 (LC)

Comprehensive Dissertation Index (CDI) is a cumulative index to several standard bibliographies of dissertations, such as American doctoral dissertations and Dissertation abstracts international, as well as to early lists of dissertations completed at individual institutions back to the date of the first American disseration, completed at Yale in 1861. Arrangement is by broad disciplines, and then by subject. It includes author indexes as well as keyword indexes to title words. Since it indexes sources other than Dissertation abstracts international , not all dissertations included are available for purchase through UMI. Those which have been microfilmed and made available carry an Order No. at the end of the entry.

Dissertation abstracts international . Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International. v.1- 1938- . Monthly.

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Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences

Section C: Worldwide (1976- )

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Section B: The Sciences & Engineering

This is a bibliography of dissertations submitted to University Microfilms International (UMI), a commercial microform publisher, by universities in the United States and Canada, and increasingly by universities throughout the world. A microfilm copy of each dissertation submitted is produced by UMI and made available for sale, in either microfilm or hard copy. A complete list of institutions participating in this UMI program at any given time can be found in the introductory pages of any issue of DAI, although inclusion in this list doesn't necessarily mean that all departments of a given institution participate.

DAI is arranged by broad subject area, and each issue contains an author index and a keyword index to words in the title of each dissertation. Abstracts are also included, usually written by the author.
All dissertations included in DAI are available for purchase at standardized rates through UMI (see Obtaining copies of dissertations ).

Dissertation abstracts online
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This resource is also available as DAI ondisc in the SML CD-ROM Reference Center

Dissertation abstracts online combines, enhances and enlarges the indexing access to records of dissertations included in both Dissertation abstracts international and Comprehensive dissertation index . Unlike DAI, abstracts are included only for titles completed since July 1980 (in the print version, they're available back to 1963), although like CDI, bibliographic data for titles is included for dissertations back to 1861. It also includes citations and abstracts for masters theses drawn from University Microfilms' Masters Abstracts International . Not all dissertations included are available for purchase through UMI since, like Comprehensive dissertation index , it indexes both Dissertation abstracts international and other dissertation lists as well. The inclusion of the phrase "NOT AVAILABLE" following Publication No. indicates that the dissertation has not been filmed by UMI.

Saliba, M. Arabic and Islamic studies : doctoral dissertation & graduate theses in English, French & German (1881-1981) / by Maurice Saliba. Lebanon : Saliba, 1983.

SML, Stacks, LC Classification Z7052 S26 (LC)

Sluglett, Peter. Theses on Islam, the Middle East and North-West Africa 1880-1978 : accepted by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland / compiled by Peter Sluglett. London : Mansell ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by H.W. Wilson, 1983.

SML, Main Reference Room Z5055 G6 S58 (LC)

©2001 Yale University Library
YUL Research Guide in Islam
Comments and questions to Emily Horning
Prepared April 1997 by Suzanne Lorimer