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PQDT offers access to 3 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Over 80,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year.
Full-text biographical information about people throughout history from many respected reference resources and 250 periodicals. Search for people by nationality, ethnicity, gender, etc. Includes entries from the "Complete Marquis Who's Who."