Using appropriate keywords to limit the search to music-related topics, UCR students, faculty and staff can peruse the following databases for music theses and dissertations from other institutions. Interlibrary Loan will help obtain needed copies on request.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (All records: full text and abstracts)
  • With access to over 2 million entries, PQD&T is a major choice when searching for masters' theses and doctoral dissertations. Dissertations published after 1980 include 350-word author-written abstracts. Theses published since 1988 feature 150-word abstracts.
     
• Proquest Dissertations & Theses (Full text only)
  • Proquest provides access to over 600,000 downloadable, full-text dissertations and theses.
     
• WorldCat dissertations and theses
  • WorldCat offers access to more than 5 million dissertation and thesis records held by OCLC member libraries.
     
• Center for Research Libraries foreign dissertations
  • Search CRL over 750,000 dissertations from universities outside Canada and the United States. Interlibrary Loan can obtain these titles for UCR students, staff and faculty.
     
• Purchase a copy through ProQuest
  • Interested researchers can buy unbound copies of dissertations and theses from ProQuest, which offers express delivery to your designated location. Over 1.9 million titles are available.
     
• Contact the author
  • If a search for a particular author or title is unsuccessful, you can try contacting the author or issuing institution/department.