Covers 1978 to the present. Dates range from last century to 1997. Provides access to North American and some Canadian doctoral dissertations. There is no comprehensive database of Australian theses. All post-1980 records include lengthy abstracts.
Dissertations are expensive to order and take up to two months to acquire.
Departmental approval is required. It indexes over 7,000 journals in arts, science, social science and humanities. ODS Online Contains official documents of the United Nations. Includes resolutions from 1946, other Official Documents from 1992 and various UN journals. PAIS covers information from 120 countries relating to public policy, social policy and the social sciences in general.