Generally speaking a thesis/ dissertation is a document based on original research, submitted in order to obtain an academic degree. It depends on the country and academic situation which phrase is used for the document. So in this section, they are distinguished in writing: Doctoral Dissertation, Master's Thesis and Bachelor's Thesis.
Waseda University Library holds doctoral dissertations of Curriculum Doctorate and Dissertation Doctor, awarded by Waseda University in old and new doctoral system. As of April 2017, the library holds doctoral dissertations which submitted from 1924 to September 2016, whose diploma numbers are up to 7371. Japanese doctoral dissertations after April 1st, 2013 are supposed to be published on the internet as a general rule.
A part of doctoral dissertations are not registered in WINE.
Access policies for master's theses depends on the graduate school. The Library does not issue a letter of introduction or permission to use.
Waseda University Library does not hold bachelor's thesis of undergraduate. Please ask at the reference desk on the 2nd floor of the Central Library about searching for materials to write your bachelor's thesis.
Please select Limited Search, and Waseda Dissertation on Search Profile. So you can specify your search results to doctoral dissertations submitted to Waseda University.
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Besides, you can narrow down them by adding a name of degree, a year of conferral, and so on as a search term.
*The name of degree has changed since the middle of 1991 as below. So if you search doctoral dissertations of "法学博士", please input only "法学" as a search term to include both names of degree.
Example) Before 1991 "法学博士" → After 1991 "博士（法学）"
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Doctoral Dissertations submitted before April 1st, 2013 |
All pages of doctoral dissertations after April 2002, only with permission of author are available on the internet (Waseda University Repository). |
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All print forms of doctoral dissertations are held at the Honjo Deposit Library. |
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Doctoral Dissertations submitted after April 1st, 2013 |
PDF files of all pages are available on the internet (Waseda University Repository) as a general rule. |
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Some doctoral dissertations are not available on the Repository for some reason. So please use electronic files which are available in the Microforms / Photographic Services Room on the 4th Floor of Central Library. But please note that a part of them are held only in print forms at the Honjo Deposit Library. |
All original doctoral dissertations of Waseda prior to 2012 are held at the Honjo Deposit Library. If you would like to browse these, please apply by the following way. Please note that it may take a couple of days to arrive generally.
Users who have Waseda ID: After login to MyWaseda, use the "Library Application Form" of "Research* tag" and read the notes carefully before applying.
*"Tasks tag" in the case of staff
Other users: Consult at the reference desk of Central Library or the counters of Campus Libraries.
Doctoral dissertations submitted to the Graduate School of Human Sciences and Graduate School of Sports Sciences are also held at the Tokorozawa Library.
Doctoral dissertations submitted to the Graduate School of Education are also held at the School Library of School of Education.
Abstracts of doctoral dissertations had been published from 1989 to 2001. They are located in the reference book area (R091) in the 2nd floor of Central Library, and also in each Campus Library.
Users are allowed to make a photocopy of doctoral dissertations within copyright laws.
Users need to have a permission of the author to take a whole copy of a doctoral dissertation. Generally, we do not contact the author, so users have to contact directly by themselves. Each individual will be assumed a full responsibility for the copyright matter on photocopying.
Please use them only in the library.