URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/
(search, order copies, view full text)
UMI's website has more than 1.4 million entries, with citations dating from 1861, and those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. (Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the 1.4 million titles listed, UMI offers over a million in full text. For these titles, the database citation includes UMI's order number.)
A second website is that provided by the Linguist List:
URL: http://linguistlist.org/diss/list.html
Anyone who wants to add their linguistic dissertation abstract on-line can do so at no personal cost at the Linguist List's website. One simply fills out their abstract submittal form at:
http://linguistlist.org/dissop.htmlTheir on-line database is searchable by keywords. Most of the entries are recently completed, 1990's dissertations.
A third website, which is also freely accessible, is OhioLINK's online, searchable dissertation abstracts database (and is part of OhioLINK: http://www.ohiolink.edu/):
URL: http://olc7.ohiolink.edu:1090/search/
One searches their on-line database by subject, author, title, institution, advisor, ISBN, and UMI control number.
In addition to the above on-line websites for dissertation abstracts, associations and individual linguistics departments have also taken advantage of the World Wide Web to make their graduate students' dissertations available for on-line purchase. Such websites, which also provide useful on-line abstracts for perusal, are maintained either directly by the respective department, or by graduate students organizations. The following are several that have been located. We would be delighted to add to either the above list of websites, or to the list below of individual departments with online dissertations. Please email Marjorie Chan <marjorie.chan@osu.edu> with additional URL's.
UNIVERSITIES
- Hong Kong University Theses Online (HKUTO)
URL: http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/Abstracts and full-text of theses and dissertations produced at the University of Hong Kong since 1941. (Theses that were produced between 1928 to 1941 were lost during WW II.) The HKUTO collection consists of over 17,500 titles, of which over 16,000 are available online in full-text. Search of the collection can be conducted via full-text search, search by department, program, etc.
ASSOCIATIONS
- Links to Recent Theses in Hong Kong
URL: http://www.lshk.org/hkg1.php#3 (link updated)Links to theses as well as dissertations from Hong Kong institutions -- Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong, City Univeristy of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Hong Kong, etc.
DEPARTMENTS
- Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University
URL: http://linguistics.osu.edu (link to dissertations no longer available) - Department of Linguistics, University of California at Irvine
Irvine Linguistics Students Association (ILSA)
URL: http://aris.ss.uci.edu/ling/dissertations.html - Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
Graduate Students in Linguistics (GSIL)
(Publications include proceedings of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) since NACCL-6 (1994))
URL: http://www.usc.edu/dept/gsil/PubList.html (revised 10/18/98)
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