HIST 398-003: Florence, Cradle of the Renaissance: Reference Sources

Indexes US dissertations from 1861 with full text available from 1997; masters theses covered selectively including some full text. Citations for dissertations from 1980 include 350-word abstracts, while masters' theses from 1988 have 150-word abstracts. Selectively covers dissertations from Great Britain and other European universities for recent years.

In addition to this database, the full text of the majority of UNC theses and dissertations from 2006, and all beginning in 2008, are freely available electronically from the UNC Library: Dissertations | Theses

Provides indexing and some full text access to dissertations completed here at Chapel Hill and submitted to the Dissertations Abstracts database. It provides citations for Chapel Hill dissertation from the 1920s and Masters theses from 1966 on.

Free access to dissertations and theses submitted electronically to the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for graduation. Coverage begins in the spring of 2006. Please note that paper and electronic submissions were both accepted through November 2007, and this database does not include dissertations and theses submitted in paper during that period. Electronic submission of all dissertations and theses was required beginning in May 2008, so all dissertations and theses submitted to the Graduate School on or after that date are included in this database.

Offers access to nearly 140 titles and over 320 volumes of the famed Cambridge History series. The texts provide up to date, scholarly, and authoritative content.

Provides a single portal for searching across several major art encyclopedias and dictionaries, including Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Entries include bibliographies for further research, images, and often examples of artists' signatures.