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04. 博士論文を探す／Find Doctoral Dissertations: English

早稲田大学を含む国内・海外の博士論文を探す方法を紹介します。／ Guide to finding doctoral dissertations submitted to universities in Japan, including Waseda, and overseas.

Description

This page is a guide to finding doctoral dissertations in Japan including Waseda, and overseas.

What is Doctoral Dissertation?

Doctoral dissertation is an academic thesis submitted and accepted to obtain a doctorate degree.

According to a revision of the Degree Regulations by MEXT, Japanese doctoral dissertations after April 1st, 2013 are supposed to be published on the internet as a general rule (Doctoral dissertations before them are also available online, if they have permission of the authors).

In principle, doctoral dissertations are stored and made available as follows:

  • Held by libraries at the university where the thesis was submitted
  • Held by a national library in each country (e.g. National Diet Library in Japan)
  • Available on the university's WEB site (institutional repository), where the thesis was submitted
  • Available as a book which is sold generally
  • Available sold by specialized vendors (mainly in North America)

Doctoral Dissertations at Waseda

Doctoral dissertations submitted to Waseda University can be searched by WINE.

○Online

［In general, all doctoral dissertations after 2013, and  those with author's permission after 2002］

PDF format are available at Waseda University Repository.

［Doctoral dissertations which are not published on the Internet with extenuating circumstances］

Electronic files are available in the Microforms/ Photographic Services Room on the 4th Floor of Central Library.

○Book form （Doctoral dissertations submitted before March 2013 and a part of them after 2013）

Doctoral dissertations in print forms must be sent to Central Library or other campus libraries to use from Honjo Deposit Library.

○A list of title/ abstract

Please consult at the office of each graduate school.

Please refer to the instruction page for the details.

Doctoral Dissertations at Other Universities in Japan

Using WINE

You can search them on WINE by title of single doctoral dissertation. Please select "Articles" for the search profile, after you enter search words in the search window on WINE.

Online Search

Check whether the full text is available on institutional repositories and following databases.

Other University Libraries

If you cannot use a full text of the doctoral dissertation on internet, check each university's collection catalogs or doctoral dissertation search system to know how to use it. You may consider visiting other university libraries or making requests for photocopies via Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Service.

National Diet Library

National Diet Library holds doctoral dissertations in Japan after September 1923.

Following WEB sites are searching tools for doctoral dissertations held by National Diet Library and other libraries.

You may consider visiting National Diet library or making a request of photocopy via Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services.

Doctoral Dissertations Overseas

When searching for overseas doctoral dissertations, it is important to check web based theses and holding institutions as well as for domestic. In addition to that it might be effective measures to purchase by databases or vendors. The following information are also useful for searching.

Using WINE

You can search them on WINE by title of single doctoral dissertation. Please select "Articles" for the search profile, after you enter search words in the search window on WINE.

Online Search

Check whether the full text is available on internet. The following information are also useful for searching.

Purchase

If the full-text of overseas doctoral dissertations you need is not available on internet, it might be effective measures to purchase by databases or vendors. You may use the thesis much faster and with low costs than ILL or visiting the holding library.

Holding Libraries

If the overseas doctoral dissertation is not available neither to use on internet nor to purchase through databases/ vendor, the next step is to search the actual holding library such as an university library or a national library of the country. But please consider the time and costs for making a request via ILL service, and visiting the institution.