Q. What’s the best way to search dissertation abstracts that would have been submitted to Dissertation Abstracts International?

Any dissertations that were published originally in Dissertation Abstracts International can be searched for in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database. This link is to an announcement by ProQuest about DAI now on their platform (https://www.proquest.com/products-services/dissertations/Dissertations-Abstract-International.html).

If you are not familiar with accessing the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses databases, this link is to a library guide that has links to that database. Click on the hyperlink in the box on the left-hand side of the page to get to the Global database: https://uwyo.libguides.com/friendly.php?s=gradstudents&p=3104801. In that database you can search by title, author, subject, etc.

From that box you can also go to the same database but which only searches for theses and dissertations written by UW students.