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What Is the Use of the Unpublished Dissertations? Find This Out!

Do you know what the unpublished dissertations are? Unpublished dissertations are the dissertations written by students but not published due to different reasons (no money for publishing, the research is not significant enough, the professor recommended not to publish it, etc).

If you have written a dissertation at least once, you probably know that the sources of any kind are valuable.

So, even unpublished dissertations may be helpful to you for gathering the information. Using the unpublished dissertations makes your research easier, but you should be careful when using them.

How to search for and use the unpublished dissertations?

Unpublished dissertations can be easily found online. You only have to know the databases where to search for them. As a rule, unpublished dissertations are searched by the Dissertation Abstracts. Sometimes, you can get full access to the dissertation. However, there are websites that offer you to purchase the dissertation that you need.

Another problem you may face when using the unpublished dissertations is citing them. Citing unpublished dissertations is very important because, though they are not published, they contain someone’s original ideas. This is why taking the information from the unpublished dissertations without referencing it is plagiarizing them. Here is how you should cite the unpublished dissertations:

• The name of the author or authors;
• The year when the project was completed;
• The title of the dissertation you are citing;
• The degree which the student was applying for when writing this dissertation;
• The institution for which the dissertation has been written.

So, be careful when using the unpublished dissertations! And remember one more thing: do not overuse them in your paper. Pay more attention to the reliable sources, either printed or non-printed.