Let us, first, decide what an electronic dissertation database is. An electronic dissertation database is a list of the registered dissertations available online.
 
Some of the electronic dissertation databases are free, some provide paid services.
 
So, how can an electronic dissertation database be really useful to you?

• Electronic dissertation database can give you a list of all the existing dissertations with the authors’ names, title and year of research. How can it help you? Well, if you are still hesitating over a topic choice for your dissertation and looking for an exclusive one, an electronic dissertation database will help you find the one that was not covered yet;
• Electronic dissertation database gives you a chance to create your own topic for a dissertation. After looking through the researches made, you can find out what fields of science are the most interesting and burning.

• Electronic dissertation database can give you an opportunity to look through the text of some dissertations related to the topic of your dissertation. This can save your time, since you will have an approximate structure of your future work, the ideas that can be presented and a bibliography list you might use;
• Electronic dissertation database can be rather beneficial. Your own dissertation can become one of the works of an electronic dissertation database and you can even get a certain sum of money for it.

As you may have already understood, electronic dissertations database opens you a lot of possibilities, and you should not neglect them. In this connection, if you ever come across some electronic dissertation database, try to have a look at it - what if you might need it in the future?
 
Just keep in mind: before using any electronic dissertations database, check whether it can be relied upon or not.