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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the H.W. Wilson Foundation have expanded their partnership with the goal of making searching for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) easier and more open.
In 2014, the two organizations created American Doctoral Dissertation which contains indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. Under the expanded partnership, the H.W. Wilson Foundation has agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present. The goal is to create a single portal for ETDs which can be added to university profiles and accessed online at www.opendissertations.com.
H. W. Wilson Foundation President Harry Regan says the overall vision is to provide a free dissertations product that will be updated continually. Providing a single access...