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Tracking down a music dissertation with the aid of one of the many modern Web-based databases is far easier then it was just ten years ago. One can now use keywords to scour a commercial search engine or a pay site to locate dissertation titles, abstracts, and even full text documentation regardless of publication year or location. With all of this information readily available on the Web, one could be tempted into thinking that a comprehensive, electronic index for music dissertations must be available, but unfortunately, one-stop shopping for dissertations does not exist. Even the more comprehensive sites, like Dissertation Abstracts Online, will locate music dissertations from as far back as the mid-19th century, but with a bias towards dissertations from North American universities. Music scholars must still use European sources like Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland (http://www.theses.com/) or Dissertationsmeldestelle der Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung (http://musikwiss.uni-muenster.de/) to create an improved global picture of music scholarship. For those who do not have access to pay sites, locating a music dissertation is even more challenging, but not impossible. In this review, three free sites, Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online, Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music, and the Dissertation Index from Music Theory Online will be evaluated for comprehensiveness and ease of use. Dissertation Abstracts Online will be analyzed first in order to create a standard for comparison purposes.
Dissertation Abstracts Online. ProQuest Information and Learning. Available through various database providers. For information, see http://www.il.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/diss_abstract_online.shtml. [Requires a Web browser and an Internet connection. Pricing varies]
With over two million completed dissertations going as far back as 1861 and abstracts from as far back as 1980, Dissertation Abstracts Online (DAO) towers over most other dissertation databases....
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