A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716
Published by Expert Information. Content for the period 1950 – 1986 comprises bibliographic listings only. From 1986 onwards the publishers introduced abstracts into the printed publication. From 1970 to 1985 abstracts were collected on microfiche, which have since been converted to PDF files.

In summary, this expanded coverage means Index to Theses users now have access to:

• 480,000 theses entries in total.
• 36,000 additional bibliographic entries converted from the Retrospective Index to Theses by Expert Information and with the kind permission of ABC CLIO.
• Some 220,000 bibliographic records converted from the printed publication by Expert Information from 1950 to 1986.
• 44,000 abstracts added in PDF format for the period 1970 to 1986.
• From 1986 onwards, almost all entries include abstracts – with some 15,000 entries added each year.