Dissertations & Theses Global Closed Collection This link opens in a new windowProQuest Digital Dissertations indexes theses from 1861 to the present, from American, Canadian, and selected international graduate schools. Abstracts are included for doctoral dissertations since July 1980, and for masters theses since 1988. Many titles are available full-text. Contains the full text of University of Toronto PhD dissertations from 1962 onwards and Masters theses from 1989 onwards. From ProQuest. Formerly known as Dissertation Abstracts International.