Dissertations and Theses Full Text

Tarver Library is pleased to announce that our Dissertations Abstracts database has just been upgraded to the Dissertations and Theses – Full Text database.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses and is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.4 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

More than 60,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI's Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full Text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT — Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.

You can access PQDT – Full Text from the Tarver Library database listing or from GALILEO.

Workshop of the Month: RefWorks

The second round of the iPod Nano contest is about to begin!

Throughout the week of November 16-19, Tarver Library is offering four opportunities to participate in our next Workshop of the Month. This time, it's on RefWorks, a citation management program that allows you to organize your citations quickly and efficiently as you are getting ready to wrap things up in the Fall semester.

It is not too late to join the race for the grand prize of an iPod Nano!

Learn more at the Workshops page

Hot Document in November

The United States Government Manual 2009-2010

The United States Government Manual 2009-2010 provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates; and boards, commissions, and committees.

A typical agency description includes a list of principal officials, a summary statement of the agency's purpose and role in the Federal Government, a brief history of the agency, including its legislative or executive authority, a description of its programs and activities, and a "Sources of Information'' section. This last section provides information on consumer activities, contracts and grants, employment, publications, and many other areas of public interest.

The current edition of the U. S. Government Manual 2009-2010 is available at the Tarver Library Reference desk. The electronic publication is available both as ASCII text and PDF files.