Doctoral Dissertations accepted American Universities

Association of Research Libraries, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, H. W. Wilson, New York, 1933-1957. D. B. Gilchrist, E. A. Henry, A. H. Trotier, and M. Harman, editors. Gives titles for dissertations. Appendix shows which publications of universities in the United States contain abstracts. Information on availability of photostats and microfilms is listed. In 1957, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities was absorbed by Dissertation Abstracts. 

Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities. New York, H. H. Wilson Co., 1933 to date. Annual. Compiled by Association of Research Librarians gives titles for dissertations appendix shows which publications of universities in United States contain abstracts gives information on photoprints, microfilms, and other facilities that universities have for providing copies. 

For all practical purposes, theses and doctoral dissertations can be classified as unpublished data. They are a fruitful source of information and should not be overlooked. Few of these are published in full, some in part, and less than half are printed at all. Nevertheless, copies are available in the libraries of the institutions at which they were written. The problem is to discover that a dissertation exists on a particular subject of interest. It has been essentially solved by the annual appearance of Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (I), first published in 1933. It lists the doctoral dissertations in all fields. Under each subject clas cation, the institutions at which the dissertations were prepared are listed in alphabetical order with subsequent listing by author. Although the classifications are broad, a subject which involves two or more fields can be located easily through the alphabetical subject index. This index, of course,... 

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