- Comprehensive dissertation index . Ann Arbor, University
Microfilms International. v.1- 1861/1972- . Annual.
SML, Main Reference Room Z5055 U49 +D77 (LC)
- Comprehensive Dissertation Index (CDI) is a
cumulative index to several standard bibliographies of dissertations, such as American
doctoral dissertations and Dissertation abstracts international, as well
as to early
lists of dissertations completed at individual institutions back to the date of the first American
disseration, completed at Yale in 1861. Arrangement is by broad disciplines,
and then by subject. It includes author indexes as well as keyword indexes to title words.
Since
it indexes sources other than Dissertation abstracts international , not all
dissertations
included are available for purchase through UMI. Those which have been microfilmed and
made available carry an Order No. at the end of the entry.
- Dissertation abstracts international . Ann Arbor, University
Microfilms International. v.1- 1938- . Monthly.
SML, Subject Bibliography Z5055 U49 +D57 (LC)
- Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences
- Section C: Worldwide (1976- )
- SML, Stacks Z5055 U49 +D57 (LC)
- Section B: The Sciences & Engineering
- This is a bibliography of dissertations submitted to University
Microfilms International (UMI), a commercial microform publisher, by universities in the
United
States and Canada, and increasingly by universities throughout the world. A microfilm copy of
each dissertation submitted is produced by UMI and made available for sale, in either
microfilm
or hard copy. A complete list of institutions participating in this UMI program at any given
time
can be found in the introductory pages of any issue of DAI, although inclusion in this list
doesn't
necessarily mean that all departments of a given institution participate.
- DAI is arranged by broad subject area, and each issue contains an author index and a
keyword index to words in the title of each dissertation. Abstracts are also included, usually
written by the author.
All dissertations included in DAI are available for purchase at standardized rates through UMI
(see Obtaining copies of
dissertations ).
- Dissertation abstracts online
Connect to Dissertation abstracts
online
This resource is also available as DAI ondisc in the SML CD-ROM Reference
Center
- Dissertation abstracts online combines, enhances and
enlarges the indexing access to
records of dissertations included in both Dissertation abstracts international
and
Comprehensive dissertation index . Unlike DAI, abstracts are included only for titles
completed since July 1980 (in the print version, they're available back to 1963), although like
CDI, bibliographic data for titles is included for
dissertations back to 1861. It also includes citations and abstracts for masters theses drawn
from
University Microfilms' Masters Abstracts International . Not all dissertations
included
are available for purchase through UMI since, like Comprehensive
dissertation index , it indexes both Dissertation abstracts international
and other
dissertation lists as well. The inclusion of the phrase "NOT AVAILABLE" following
Publication No. indicates that the dissertation has not been filmed by UMI.
- Saliba, M. Arabic and Islamic studies : doctoral dissertation &
graduate theses in English, French & German (1881-1981) / by Maurice Saliba. Lebanon :
Saliba, 1983.
SML, Stacks, LC Classification Z7052 S26 (LC)
- Sluglett, Peter. Theses on Islam, the Middle East and North-West
Africa 1880-1978 : accepted by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland / compiled
by Peter Sluglett. London : Mansell ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by H.W.
Wilson, 1983.
SML, Main Reference Room Z5055 G6 S58 (LC)
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Yale University Library YUL Research Guide in Islam
Prepared October 1997 by Suzanne
Lorimer Copyright (C) 1997, Yale University. All rights reserved.
Comments and questions to Emily Horning
Last updated February 6, 2001
URL is http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/religion/islam/diss.htm