By Kathryn Wayne, Fine Arts
Librarian
Authors of UCB dissertations are required to submit two copies to the UC Berkeley Graduate Division. An archival copy is deposited in the Doe Library and can be requested at the Doe Circulation Desk. The dissertation will be paged by library staff (taking approximately fifteen minutes), and may only be used within the Library with a government issued photo ID. Some dissertations are shelved off campus at the Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF) and can be requested through OskiCat or at the Doe Circulation Desk. Normally these requests will be filled the next business day after 4pm. Photocopiers are available in various locations throughout the Library.
To browse for titles that have been published in the History of Art Department, search Melvyl by subject Dissertations, Academic UCB History of Art. Individual dissertations may also be searched in Oskicat by author or title. Note that recently published dissertations may be waiting to be cataloged. If you don’t find a recent title, check with the History of Art Department.
The Graduate Division sends a copy directly to University Microfilms (UMI) located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This company sells print or microform full text copies for over one million dissertations at http://proquest.umi.com/login. Note that authors can opt not to allow for the purchase of full text. To search for titles owned by UMI, search the database Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts). It includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; 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. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Access Dissertations and Theses via the Library homepage (www.lib.berkeley.edu) under Find Information/Electronic Resources/By Types/ Dissertation and Theses Databases.
Dissertations & Theses @ University of California gives UC Berkeley patrons full text access to nearly all dissertations filed from 1996 to the present for all UC campuses. Note that authors can opt not to publish in full text. Access via the Library homepage under: Find Information/Electronic Resources/By Types/ Dissertation and Theses Databases.
Periodical Indexes The following online periodical indexes include dissertations in their source coverage.
ARTbibliographies Modern. An excellent resource for art history, art criticism, art theory, design, photography, graphic art. The database has abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, and exhibition reviews. Dissertations are included and reflect about 1% of the entire database. Scope extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Approximately 13,000 new entries are added each year. Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. The database covers 1974 to the present. Access via the Library Homepage under Find Information/ElectronicResources/By Types/Article Databases.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). The most comprehensive art history periodical index available. It includes abstracted articles from 2,500 international periodicals, books, conference proceedings, collected essays, exhibition and art dealer's catalogs and published dissertations. BHA's half-million records cover the art of Europe and the Americas from late antiquity to the modern period in a wide range of media, including architecture and industrial design, painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, and popular and folk art. Strong indexing in such areas as art historiography, archaeological and antiquarian literature, area and cultural studies, critical theory, as well as professional literature in art librarianship and visual resources curatorship, make it an especially rich resource. Access via the Library Homepage under Find Information/ElectronicResources/By Types/Article Databases.
Francis. Produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST), this database contains records from more than 3,000 journals, books, dissertations, conference papers and other American and European sources covering humanities, social sciences, and economics. Most citations, abstracts, and subject headings are in French, with about 33% in English. International in scope, it is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature—with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Coverage includes 1984 to the present. Access via the Library Homepage under Find Information/ElectronicResources/By Types/Article Databases.
To locate additional dissertations for other countries or within the U.S., use the following subject keyword in OskiCat (quick search “subject begins with”): Dissertations Academic (Country) or Dissertations Academic (State)
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) website (http://www.crl.edu/) contains a separate Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database (click on top bar “Collections”). CRL seeks to provide comprehensive access to doctoral dissertations submitted to institutions outside the U. S. and Canada. One hundred European universities maintain exchange or deposit agreements with CRL. Russian dissertation abstracts in the social sciences are obtained on microfiche from INION.
Index to theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council. London: Aslib. (1950-present) Z5055.G69.I6 Main Stacks. Current volume shelved in Doe Reference Room.
Organized by subject headings covering all disciplines (A—Arts & Humanities). Also contains separate author index. Copies are available from the British Library’s British Thesis Service at www.bl.uk.
Index to Theses is the online equivalent to the print publication Index to theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and contains abstracts for theses accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Access this database via the Library Homepage under Find Information/Electronic Resources/By Types/ Dissertation and Theses Databases.
Retrospective index to theses of Great Britain and Ireland, 1716-1950. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1975. 5 vols. Volume 1 covers “Social Sciences and Humanities” dissertations published prior to 1950. Shelved in Storage: NRLF Z5055.G69.B5
Catalogue des thèses
reproduites. Lille,
France: Atelier national de reproduction des thèses de Lille,
1990.
Z5055.F8.L58 Doe Reference.
A list of dissertations published at French universities from 1988 to 2001. Art history-related topics can be found by subject under the heading 09 “Histoire de l’art et archéologie.” Includes dissertations submitted within the previous year. Includes author index.
Catalogue des thèses de
doctorat soutenues
devant les universités françaises. Paris:
Cercle de la librairie, 1884-1978. NRLF Z5055.F78 (Request at Doe
Circulation).
Covers earlier dissertations, superceded by Catalogue
des thèses reproduites (above).
Deutsche Nationalbibliographie und
Bibliographie
der im Ausland erschienenen deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen.
Frankfurt am Main: Buchhandler-Vereinigung, 1992. Z2221.F682 Main
Stacks. Library Use Only. Library has 1986-present.
German dissertations.
Jahresverzeichnis der an den
deutschen
Universitäten erschienenen Schriften. Covers
1885-1987. Z5055.G39.J3 Main Stacks.
This source (with various titles all located under
the same call number) covers dissertations published by German
institutions to 1987. Arranged by city and then university with subject
and author indexes.
Archives of American Art Journal.
(Washington: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian), 1960-present.
N11.D5.J6 Current issues available in the AH/C Library, bound volumes
in Gardner Stacks.
Includes section called "Graduate Research Projects
in American Art" in the back of the first volume for each year.
Includes masters and doctoral dissertations on American art, which have
been recently completed or are currently in progress. Divided into two
lists (theses and dissertations) arranged alphabetically by University
and then by author’s last name.
Art Bulletin. (New
York: College Art Association), 1913-present. N11.C4, AH/C Library,
308.
The June issue provides two lists "Dissertations in
Progress" and "Dissertations Completed" covering the prior year
(December 1-November 30). Organized by broad subject headings (e.g.,
art criticism, Renaissance art) and then alphabetically by author’s
last name. Based on information submitted to the Art Bulletin
via U.S. and Canadian schools. An online version is also available on
the College Art Association’s website at: www.collegeart.org, under the heading Publications, then under Services,
United States and Canadian Dissertations.
Kunstchronik.
(Nürnberg: H. Carl), 1948-present. N3.K84, AH/C Library, 308
Provides (yearly) lists of newly begun and completed dissertations and
theses. The August issue is devoted to dissertations
published in German institutions and the Sept/Oct issue includes other
countries including North America.
The Art and archaeology of
pre-Columbian Middle
America: an annotated bibliography of works in English, by Aubyn
Kendall. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977. F1219.3.A7A12.K36 Reference,
Anthropology Library.
Pages 307-313 include a list of about 75 doctoral
dissertations pertaining to Pre-Columbian Middle American to 1975.
Arts in America: a bibliography,
edited by
Bernard Karpel. Washington: Archives of American Art/Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1979. 4 vols. NX503.A12.A7 Reference, AH/C Library.
Volume 3 includes a list of "Dissertations and
Theses
on the Visual Arts" by William Innes Homer. This list (1,361 entries)
includes doctoral theses and dissertations "dealing with American
visual arts." Titles are from the early 1900s to 1975. Arranged by
author’s last name, artist’s name and medium.
Doctoral dissertations on China and
on inner
Asia 1976-1990: an annotated bibliography of studies on western
languages, by Frank Joseph Shulman. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. DS706.A12.S49.1998, Doe Reference.
Includes section on "Art and Art History" as well
as
subsections "Chinese influence on Asian Art" and "Chinese influence on
Western art." Provides comprehensive guide to over 10,000 dissertations
in all disciplines primarily written in Western languages. Briefly
annotated. Complements and supplements the author’s two earlier titles:
Doctoral dissertations on China: a bibliography of studies in
Western languages, 1945-1970 (1972); Doctoral dissertations on
China, 1971-1975: a bibliography of studies of Western languages (1978).
Doctoral dissertations on Japan and
on Korea, 1969-1979: an annotated bibliography of studies in western
languages,
by Frank Joseph Shulman. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms
International, 1982. DS806.A12.S53 1982, Doe Reference.
Divided into two sections (Japan, Korea) and within
each are headings for art-related topics. Previous edition Japan
and Korea; an annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations in
Western languages, 1877-1969 (1970).
Doctoral research on Russia and the
Soviet
Union 1960-1975: a classified list of 3,150 American, Canadian, and
British dissertations, with some critical and statistical analysis,
by
Jesse J. Dossick. NY: Garland Publishing, 1979. DK17.A12D62 Main Stack,
Library Use Only.
Sections on "The Arts and Art History" and "Individual Artists."
Includes 19 titles on Soviet and Russian art completed between
1965-1975.
The Harpur index of master's theses
in art
written at American institutions of higher learning, by Kenneth
Clement
Lindsay. Endicott: NY: Harpur College, 1957. 5 Microcards located in
the Doe Periodical/News/Microform Room
Chronological listing of 2,168 theses completed from 1876-1953.
Index of theses dealing with historical subjects.
Picasso: a comprehensive
bibliography, by
Ray Anne Kibbey. New York: Garland Pub., 1977. ND553.P5A12 K5
Reference, AH/C Library.
Pages 121-127 include an annotated listing of 26 studies completed
in the United States through 1975.
Theses and dissertations on
Southeast
Asia: an international bibliography in social sciences, education, and
fine arts, by D. R. Sardesai. Zug: Inter
Documentation, 1970. DS504.5.A12.S26 Main Stacks.
Organized by subject. The section devoted
to
"fine arts" is organized geographically covering Indonesia, Laos,
Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, The Philippines, Thailand.
Covers dissertations published 1950-1967.
Theses and dissertations on
southern
Africa: an international bibliography. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1976,
by
Oliver B. Pollak. Doe Reference DT729.5.A12.P6.
International bibliography of higher
degrees
on Africa between 1884-1974. Organized by subject including a section
on "Fine Arts."
Theses on Indian Sub-continent,
1877-1971:
an annotated bibliography of dissertations in social sciences and
humanities accepted with the universities of Australia, Canada, Great
Britain and Ireland, and United States of America, by Krishan
Gopal.
Delhi: Hindustan Pub. Corp., 1977. DS335.A12.K74 Doe Reference.
Organized geographically: Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sikkim and
Bhutan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Dissertations on art-related topics are
included within India and Sri Lanka.
Women’s studies: a bibliography of
dissertations 1870-1982, by Victor Francis
Gilbert. New York: Blackwell, 1985. HQ1180.A12.G551.1985 Doe Reference.
List of theses and dissertations
presented at British, Canadian, Irish and North American Universities
through 1982 in the field of women’s studies. Section 1 covers "The
Arts." Detailed subject index.
Garland Publishing Company published three major series from the 1970s to 1980s. Numerous dissertations were published. To locate titles within each of the following series, search OskiCat choose Quick Search, then search by “Title begins with” for any of the following series:
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