Identify
bibliographies of dissertations completed in specific disciplines. To locate
these types of bibliographies in Orbis,
do a KEYWORD search:
skey
dissertations and (skey [name of discipline or subject] or tkey
[name of discipline or subject])
e.g.,
skey
dissertations and (skey history or tkey history)
skey dissertations and (skey britain or skey british or tkey britain or
tkey british)
skey
dissertations and (skey anthropology or tkey anthropology)
Do
Yale dissertations appear in Orbis?
Records
appear in Orbis for all dissertations for which microfilm copies exist. These
include:
all
dissertations completed in departments of the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences since 1965
selected
dissertations completed in departments of the Graduate School between 1892
and 1965
They
can be located by author and title and also in the following ways:
By
doing the keyword search yale and thesis
To
locate those completed in a specific department or school of the University,
do a keyword search:
yale and thesis and [name of department or school]
e.g.
yale and thesis and "religious studies"
Dissertations
receive no subject headings when cataloged, so to locate those done on specific
topics, you can include words from the title in your keyword search:
yale
and thesis and "religious studies" and women
Where
do I go to actually read a copy of a Yale thesis or dissertation?
Generally,
copies of dissertations submitted for the Ph.D. at Yale are located in Sterling
Library. Copies of master's theses, to the extent that these are available at
all, are generally maintained by the department for which they were written.
Yale dissertations may exist in two physical formats:
The
original manuscript submitted to the University's Graduate School
by the author is maintained in the Library's Department of Manuscripts and
Archives in Sterling Library or another archival location on campus. If
a microfilm copy of a dissertation exists, access to the actual manuscript
copy will be granted only in exceptional cases.
For
dissertations completed in the Graduate School after 1965, and for some
completed before that date as well, there is a microfilm copy maintained
in the Microform Room of Sterling Library.
Copies
of theses and dissertations completed for Schools of the University are generally
found outside of Sterling, and second copies of dissertations completed for
some departments may also be found in non-Sterling locations.
What
about seeing copies of dissertations not done at Yale?
The
Library does purchase copies of dissertations completed at other universities,
but not routinely. They are cataloged as books when we receive them, so search
for them in Orbis under author, title, and subject.
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