Dissertations

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This search brings together records for dissertations from three data sources:

CLIO  Catalog – which includes basic citation information, is limited to Columbia dissertations, and links mostly to paper and microfilm copies, though with full text for the past few years.

Academic Commons – searches citations and abstracts to Columbia University dissertations which have been deposited in our institutional repository, but does not search full text.

CLIO Articles, which includes all dissertations in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database.  This includes full text of  most U.S. dissertations published since 1997, abstracts for dissertations published since 1980, and citations for dissertations published since 1861.

For more advanced search options (including the ability to limit by university, search by advisor name, and other features) use  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses directly.

 

Search Tips

Put exact phrases in quotes: “computer aided design”
Wildcard/truncation: use the asterisk * as a wildcard: buddhis* finds buddhist, buddhism, buddhists
Proximity: Use the tilde ~ and quotation marks to indicate proximity:  “censorship huckleberry finn”~50 finds censorship huckleberry finn within 50 words of one another.   This is especially useful when searching the full-text dissertations in the Articles datasource.



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