7. Dissertations
Dissertations & Theses Full Text
Dissertations & Theses Full Text contains records describing dissertations and masters' theses in all areas of academic research at over 550 universities, including almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Covers dissertations from 1861 to the present, abstracts from 1980-, as well as full text for over 70,000 dissertations from 1997 forward. Features include searching by elements such as title, author, keyword, adviser, subject, school, language and degree. Dissertations may be requested (free) via Widener's Interlibrary Loan online form (Harvard ID and PIN required).
French Dissertations
Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignment Supérieur
Abes's sudoc link allows for searching a union catalog of French universities and higher education institutions. Limiting the search to "Note de thèse" will retrieve dissertations.
Foreign Doctoral Dissertations, Center for Research Libraries
A searchable database of over 20,000 uncatalogued dissertations, 800 from France.
Alexandre, Didier. La traversée des thèses: bilan de la recherche doctorale en littérature française du XXe siècle: Actes du Colloque de la Société d'étude de la littérature française du XXe siècle (SELF XX) / [Dir.] Didier Alexandre, Michel Collot, Jeanyves Guérin, Michel M Murat. Paris: Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, [2004].
Widener: Ordered/received; request via online form
Proceedings of a colloque at the Ecole Normale Supérieure devoted to the study of 20th century dissertations. Fields of research, corpus, methods and documentation are summarized and reports of the round tables on various genres are presented. Francophone literature, comparative literature, genetic criticism and stylistics are also covered. Includes statistical analysis.
Francophone Literature
Arnaud, Jacqueline. Répertoire mondial des travaux universitaires de la littérature maghrébine de langue française / Jacqueline Arnaud, Françoise Amacker. Paris: Centre d'études littéraires francophones de l'Université Paris XIII: Editions L'Harmattan, 1984.
Widener: WID-LC PQ3988.5.N6 Z992 x 1984
Bonn, Charles. Répertoire international des thèses sur les littératures maghrébines / Charles Bonn et la Coordination internationale des chercheurs sur les littératures maghrébines. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 1996.
Widener: WID-LC PQ3988.5.A5 Z993 1996x
Other Sources
The French review. v. 1- Nov. 1927-
Champaign, Ill. [etc.] American Association of Teachers of French.
Online version provides access to tables of contents and full text of articles from 1927, but excludes the most recent 5 years.
Print copy: Widener: EducP 150.3; current issues in Periodicals Reading Room Stacks
Includes an annual listing of doctoral dissertations in progress at American universities. Arranged in three categories: Language (Linguistics and Pedagogy), Civilization and Literature (general and by century/author). Concludes with listing of defended dissertations followed by abandoned dissertations.
**To find more print sources in HOLLIS, use Browse Subject beginning with…
Dissertations, Academic -- France -- Bibliography
and subdivisions to find sources such as:
Atelier national de reproduction des thèses de Lille. Catalogue des thèses reproduites / Atelier national de reproduction des thèses de Lille. Lille: L'Atelier; Paris: Diffusion étranger, Didier érudition, 1990-
Widener: WID-LC Z2161 .C38x
The current edition of the Catalogue; chiefly French, some English. Includes two long sections list defended dissertations and dissertations in progress by author name. Two subject indexes provide access to the dissertations listed.
**See also the Widener Research Guide: Finding Dissertations and Theses which includes international sources.