ProQuest Dissertations

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ProQuest Dissertations Theses
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ProQuest Dissertations Theses AI The
database which provide the theses in masters
degree and doctors degree in each educational
institute which certified from United State and
Canada. Also the educational institute from
Europe, Australia, Asian and Africa more than
1,000 institutes. There are composed of more
than 2,000 data record.
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• More than 2.3 million doctoral dissertations and
• master's theses since the first U.S. dissertation
  in 1861.
• Provide the bibliography data of doctoral
  dissertation
• abstract since 1980-present
• Provide the bibliography data of masters theses
  since
• 1988-present

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Giving 24 first pages example of dissertation
from titles that available
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