Rwandan Politics

Collection of Dissertation !!!

Adolescent Reproductive Health Network (ARHNe): Health System and Health Promotion Research in Eastern and Southern Africa: The program targets adolescent reproductive health and risk behaviors. Includes list of theses and dissertations from Makerere University, some South African universities and other universities. Funded by the European Commission, administered by the Univ. of Oslo. http://www.nutrition.uio.no/ARHNe/ http://www.nutrition.uio.no/ARHNe/

Banque de données sur les thèses et mémoires des pays francophones (Redosi): " La vocation de Redosi est de colliger l'ensemble de la production scientifique informelle francophone, à l'exception de l'Europe et de l'Amérique du Nord. Redosi est un répertoire bibliographique et recense exclusivement les thèses." Hosted by L'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. http://www.aupelf-uref.org/repertoires/princip.htm

CODESRIA Theses: Lists, by subjects, of theses funded by CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa / Conseil pour le Developpement de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales en Afrique (Dakar). Provides author, title, degree, date, pagination, granting institution. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/codesria/codesitheses.html

Database of African Theses and Dissertations: "The DATAD database contains citations and abstracts for theses and dissertations completed in African universities. The launching database includes works from all subject areas in ten leading universities and include abstracts written by the authors." Register to see selected brief citations. Full access requires a subscription. Participating universities are from Cameroun, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe. On the web site of the Assocation of Association of African Universities based in Accra, Ghana. http://www.aau.org/datad/

Database of African Theses and Dissertations: Report of a Feasibility Study

"A feasibility study (Feb. 1999) for a pilot project to index and abstract theses and dissertations completed at African universities." Part of the Project for Information Access and Connectivity (PIAC) funded by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Its director was Lisbeth Levey. http://www.piac.org/ Features include -

theses and dissertations completed at each university—by faculty and discipline
information on how theses are handled at each university surveyed
copyright practices for theses at surveyed universities
the state of internet connectivity at the universities

Kenyan Resources Database: "A project aimed at making available bibliographic information of theses and dissertations that have significant research carried out on or in Kenya." Locate theses by author, title, institution, year, and blocks of years. Those with theses or dissertations not in the database are welcome to include it. The Project Manager is S. Katuu of Vancouver, Canada. E-mail: kenyadb@yahoo.com
http://kenyadb.freeservers.com/

L'Universite Cheikh Anta Diop: Formerly the University of Dakar. One can retrieve citations to theses completed at the University up to 1986 through a keyword search form.
Theses: http://www.refer.fr/sngal_ct/edu/ucad/theses.htm
Main page: http://www.refer.fr/sngal_ct/edu/ucad/ucad.htm

University of Botswana. History Department. Subject Index and Checklist of History and Archaeology Dissertations and Research Essays Submitted at the University of Botswana, 1976-1998: Lists four M.A. dissertations and 222 B.A. research essays. http://ubh.tripod.com/ac/studrp.htm

Canada

American Historical Association. Directory of Dissertations in Progess: Database of dissertations in progress in the U.S. and Canada. Dissertations are submitted by the university department. http://www.theaha.org/pubs/dissertations/
Canadian Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations on Africa, 1905 - 1993: Citations to dissertations can be retrieved by region or country. From the Canadian Association of African Studies. http://www.unites.uqam.ca/rockfeller/acea/theses/acea.htm

Contentville.com: Sells, books, dissertations (U.S. and Canadian), journal articles, historical documents, program transcripts, etc. You cannot access this site unless you accept their cookie. Dissertation orders are filled by UMI Dissertations Publishing. Locate dissertations by author, title, keyword. You cannot find dissertations by university. http://www.contentville.com

ProQuest Digital Dissertations: Citations and abstracts for U.S. and Canadian Ph.D. dissertations and master's theses. The same database as the UMI Dissertations Abstracts. Unless your institution subscribes to ProQuest you can only search for the last two years. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations

France

Atelier national de Reproduction des Thèses: "Toutes les thèses françaises récentes sont disponibles sous forme de micro-fiches que l'on peut acheter. See also the ABES web site. Pour les thèses de lettres, le droit, les sciences humaines -
Atelier national de Reproduction des Thèses
9, rue Auguste angellier, 59046 Lille Cedex. France
Tel 33 3 20 30 86 73
Fax 33 3 20 54 21 95

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database: CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Members may borrow dissertations. http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dbdissertations/search.asp
Use the Keyword (or Author, Institution, Title, etc.) search.

Clio en Afrique

In French. No. 1, printemps 1997, of an electronic journal from the Groupe de recherche (GDR) 1118 du CNRS, "Histoire de l'Afrique: Mémoires et Identités (XVIIème-XXème siècles)". Based at the Université de Provence. http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~wclio-af/ The first issue includes:

a selective list of French doctoral theses from 1995-janv.1997
summaries of two theses

No. 2, été 1997 has recent doctoral theses

No. 3 has a List of theses en cours
Comptes-rendus et orientations de thèses

Lettre de CEAN (Centre d'étude d'afrique noire, Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux): In French and English. The full text is available in Adobe pdf and in text rtf formats. Lists a few theses. The CEAN is part of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux. http://www.cean.u-bordeaux.fr/anglais/lettre.html

Presses Universitaires du Septentrion: In French. Publishes books and French Ph.D. theses. One can order theses from 6 French universities. Has a section "Litterature et civilisation des pays d'afrique noire" which lists 13 pages of theses on Africa. One can receive by e-mail information on new publications on Littérature et civilisation des pays d'Afrique noire. http://www.septentrion.com/
E-mail: septentrion@septentrion.com
Presses universitaires du Septentrion, Rue du Barreau, B. P. 199, 59 654, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. Phone: (code for Lille) +20-41-66-80. Fax: 20-41-66-90

TheseNet: catalogue web des thèses soutenues en France: In French. Database of citations to Ph.D. theses completed in France. "TheseNet signale les thèses soutenues en France dans les universités et les établissements habilités à délivrer le doctorat et indique la bibliothèque qui détient l’original de la thèse. Les DEA, les mémoires, les habilitations à diriger les thèses ne sont pas signalés."

"Le catalogue contient les notices des thèses soutenues :
· depuis 1972 pour les sciences exactes et appliquées, les lettres, sciences humaines et sociales, droit, science politique, sciences économiques et de gestion
· depuis 1983 pour les disciplines de santé, sauf en médecine vétérinaire depuis 1990." From ABES - Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur. http://thesenet.abes.fr/

Universite Paris 7 - Laboratoire Societes en Developpement dans l'Espace et dans le Temps (SEDET)

Multi-disciplinary research unit on comparative studies of the Third World. Has a list of theses (some with abstracts).

L'Afrique à Paris 7 site covers activities at Université Paris 7 -

a 14 p. + list of "Maîtrises et DEA" by country
Research (Maîtrise-histoire, DEA, Mémoire de fin d'études) from the Universite Nationale du Benin, Universite de Ouagadougou, Universite Nationale de Brazzaville, Universite d'Abidjan, Universite de Conakry, Ecole Normale Superieure de Bamako, Universite de Niamey, Universite de Dakar.

Paris 7: http://www.sedet.cicrp.jussieu.fr/sedet/Afrilab/Afrhome.htm
SEDET:http://www.sedet.jussieu.fr

India

University of Mumbai. Centre for African Studies. Doctoral Dissertation: Has a list of Ph.D. dissertations awarded or in progress at the University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India. http://www.mu.ac.in/africanstudies/african_dissertation.htm

Netherlands

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database: CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Members may borrow dissertations. http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dbdissertations/search.asp
Use the Keyword (or Author, Institution, Title, etc.) search.

Leiden University. Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS): Their monthly Agenda includes lists of Ph.D. theses. http://www.leidenuniv.nl/interfac/cnws/agenda/index.html

Scandinavia

Agricultural University of Norway - Theses: Has many conservation, agricultural projects in Africa. Has a list of masters theses, many on Africa. Provides "education in agriculture, food sciences, management and conservation of natural resources, landscape and community planning and aquaculture." http://www.nlh.no/noragric/

University of Bergen - M.A. Theses on Africa: Some M.A. theses for the University are listed on the Chr. Michelsen Institute site. http://www.cmi.no/research/studdiss.htm
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway): In Danish. Theses prepared for the university graduate program. Abstracts for each thesis. Many are on African topics. http://www.sai.uio.no/studier/hfg/sammendrag/

South Africa

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database: CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Members may borrow dissertations. For the cataloged titles, use the Pull-down Search Menu (Subject Keyword, Author, Institution, Title, etc.). http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dbdissertations/search.asp

NISC's Biblioline - Index to South African Theses and Dissertations: Subscription only web database of South African doctoral and masters theses. Some libraries subscribe, thru the web or to the CD-ROM. Web subscribers select "Subscribers click here for databases", then select "South African Studies". You can limit your search to the theses index. http://www.nisc.com/

Online Union Catalogs: A search on the subject Dissertations South Africa in online catalogs such as World Catalog or RLIN will retrieve many print sources for dissertations.

Rhodes University Library: Rhodes has started to put their dissertations online in Adobe PDF format. Abstracts are available, but the full text is open only to Rhodes University users. http://www.ru.ac.za/library/theses/
For example see, Van Vlaenderen, Hilde Rachel Maurice, "Group problem solving among community activists in a South African setting: an everyday cognition approach" (Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1997.
Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology)) - Rhodes University, 1997.)

University of Natal. Graduate Program in Cultural & Media Studies (Durban): Has the full text of masters theses, honours projects, and South African television reports. Example: Bhekizulu Mpofu. (1996). Corporate monopoly in the South African print media: Implications for the alternative press with particular reference to New Nation. http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/index.htm

University of the Witwatersrand: Search for Wits masters and doctoral theses and dissertations in their online catalog. http://innopac.wits.ac.za/screens/opacmenu.html

Switzerland

Swiss National Library: One can order from the National Library copies of dissertations on African topics completed at Swiss universities. http://www.snl.ch
For a list of Swiss dissertations, see Pfister, Roger (1997). Bibliography of Swiss Doctoral Dissertations on sub-Saharan Africa, 1897-1996. Berne,
Switzerland: Swiss National Commission for UNESCO. 76p.

The list by Pfister, plus updates, are on the CD-ROM "African
Studies" sold by the National Information Services Corporation
(NISC): http://www.nisc.com

United Kingdom

British Library, Document Supply Centre: Customer Services, Boston Spa,
Wetherby, LS23 7BQ, West Yorkshire, UK
Their International Photocopy Service will sell copies of theses provided permission of the author is obtained. http://www.bl.uk/services/bsds/dsc/intlphot.html; British Doctoral Theses - "Document Supply Centre Account units can be used in payment for this service. Order forms are available for customers wishing to pay by cheque, credit card, request forms or ART numbers (we do not raise invoices)."
Loan - 2.5 units
Purchase -
Microform: £42.00, $72.00 or 8 units
Paper copy: £73.50, $126.00 or 14 units

Order forms for British Doctoral theses may be obtained from Liz Dambrauskas, email: elizabeth.dambrauskas@bl.uk

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database: CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Members may borrow dissertations. http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dbdissertations/search.asp
Use the Keyword (or Author, Institution, Title, etc.) search. For example, searching on the Keyword Nigeria retrieves these dissertations -

The history of indigenous leather industry in Sokoto and Kano, Northern Nigeria 1903-1960, by Anagboju, Ifeanyi (Univ. of Birmingham)
Land use and industrialization in Lagos, Nigeria, by Amos, Ajato (Univ. of Leicester)

CISTI, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information: Has a document supply service, is reportedly able to supply on microfilm UK theses for $50.00. They are partners with the British Library Document Supply Centre.
Phone: 1-800-668-1222 (Canada & US) or (613) 993-9251
Fax: (613) 993-7619
E-mail: cisti.info@nrc.ca
http://www.nrc.ca/cisti

Harvard University. Atlantic History Seminar. Dissertations in Atlantic History: Abstracts only. Has for the University of College, London, "The Sons of Neptune and the Sons of Ham: Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes" by Emma Christopher. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/theses.html

Institute of Historical Research (University of London, School of Advanced Study): Its History On-Line has a keyword searchable database of U.K. history theses completed and in progress. Publishes the print annual, Theses in Progress, which lists theses on Africa in progress or completed at U.K. universities. Includes a 1999 Southern Africa theses in progress. Not on their web site but available in libraries is History Theses - cumulative lists covering 1901-1980. http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/search/

University of Kent (Canterbury), Centre for Social Anthropology & Computing: Has a U.K. social anthropology theses database covering mainly 1960s-1990s B.Litt (Oxford), Masters, and doctorates. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Theses/theses_intro.html

United States

Academic Dissertation Publishers: Mainly U.S. Ph.D. dissertations and Masters theses online. The "first 25 pages are available free of charge." Obtain a copy of complete dissertations in Adobe PDF format for $6 or order a bound copy starting at $19.95. Titles include "Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa: the allocation of property rights and implications for development," by Sandra F. Joireman (1995, UCLA). http://www.dissertation.com/

American Historical Association. Directory of Dissertations in Progess: Database of dissertations in progress in the U.S. and Canada. Dissertations are submitted by the university department. http://www.theaha.org/pubs/dissertations/

Center for Research Libraries: Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database
CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in their online database. For the cataloged titles, use the Pull-down Search Menu (Subject Keyword, Author, Institution, Title, etc.). http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dbdissertations/search.asp

For the many dissertations not yet cataloged, you can see a numerical listing of titles by putting P- in the Call Number search form. Example of CRL dissertations -
Author: Nessmann, Victor-Edouard
Title: Voies d'accès aux Carrières médicales Coloniales / par Victor-Edouard Nessmann
Imprint: 1927; CAMP members may request dissertations for purchase.; CAMP By-Laws, Appendix II: Schedule of Demand Purchase Expenses
1. Items costing up to $200 - requests go directly to CAMP administrator at CRL who processes the request.
2. Items costing $200-$600 - requests go to the Chairperson of the CAMP Executive Committee who acts upon the request following the guidelines of CAMP policy. The Chairperson forwards the request to the CAMP administrator at CRL for processing.

Contentville.com: Sells, books, dissertations (U.S. and Canadian), journal articles, historical documents, program transcripts, etc. You cannot access this site unless you accept their cookie. Dissertation orders are filled by UMI Dissertations Publishing. Locate dissertations by author, title, keyword. You cannot find dissertations by university. http://www.contentville.com

Diplomica Online: Provides Ph.D. dissertations and masters theses by e-mail or in print form. No prices given. Based in Pittsburg, PA, they work with U.S. and German academic organizations such as NDLTD, Bavarian State Libraries. http://www.diplomica.com/

Dissertation Abstracts: UMI Online Dissertation Services sells copies of dissertations which you can locate through Dissertation Abstracts which many universities subscribe to; ask your Reference Librarian. Citations and abstracts for U.S. and Canadian Ph.D. dissertations and master's theses. [Stanford users access through Proquest Digital Dissertations or see Dissertation Abstracts on the All Databases page.] http://www.umi.com/hp/Products/Dissertations.html

Dissertation.com: "The primary function of Dissertation.com is to provide students, researchers, and the general public with low cost access to important academic work." Each title is about $30. One can see the first 25 pages for free (in Adobe PDF format). Has for ex. "Sozio-ökonomische Wirkungen der Anlage von Steinkonturwällen in kleinbäuerlichen Betrieben der Provinz Bam/Burkina Faso," by Dagmar Kunze and "Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa: the allocation of property rights and implications for development" by Sandra F. Joireman. The theses are also available thru e-book sellers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders. http://www.dissertation.com/

H-Africa: Lists dissertation information sent in by H-Africa members since 1995. Includes an abstract supplied by the author. http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/biblio/index.html

Levine, S. Joseph - Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation: Dr. Levine is with the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. http://www.msue.msu.edu/aee/dissthes/guide.htm

MIT Theses Online: Has selected MIT theses only. For example, has the full text of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's thesis, "International joint venture with a government partner case study: copper mining in Zambia." http://theses.mit.edu/

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD): Links to sites in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Germany, England, South Africa which offer theses online. http://www.ndltd.org/

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR): Its March 1999 Newsletter has a list of U.S. Foreign Affairs Doctoral Dissertations by Ed Goedeken which lists some Africa-related titles. http://www.ohiou.edu/~shafr/shafr.htm

Stanford University Dissertations: Open only to Stanford users. Full text dissertations from 1989 + in Adobe .pdf format. Many universities also have their own dissertations online open only to their users; please ask your librarian. Files are large (ex. 17 MB) and need to be downloaded to your computer. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/stanford/main

University of Florida Africa-Related Dissertations and Theses, 1956 +: Arranged by author with subject and country indexes and indexes by department and degree. http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/disserta.htm

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Africa-Related Theses and Dissertations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988-2000 (arranged by subject) http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/Library/Diss1988-2000.html; Africa-Related Theses and Dissertations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1921-1988 http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/Library/Diss1921-88.html

University of Pittsburg. Health Sciences Library System - Recent Dissertations in the Medical Humanities: Citations only. [If your university subscribes to ProQuest Digital Dissertations, you may see abstracts and selected pages.] Includes some Africa-related dissertations. See for ex. the subjects: AIDS (Social and Historical Contexts), Public Health/International Health, etc. Maintained by John Erlen, University of Pittsburgh.
http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/histmed/dissertations/

Print Sources for Dissertations

ASA News "Recent Doctoral Dissertations" - by Joseph J. Lauer and others.: Each issue of the African Studies Association (U.S.) newsletter, ASA News, carries a list, by subject, of recent American, Canadian, and U.K. dissertations

Center for Research Libraries (U.S.) Foreign doctoral dissertations purchased on demand by the Center for Research Libraries.: Chicago : The Center [1980?]. 29 p. [At Stanford, see: Hoover Reference Librarian's Desk Z3509 .C46

Center for Research Libraries. Handbook. Dissertations.: Has a list of world wide print sources for dissertations. Describes their dissertation collection program (most are not cataloged). Based in Chicago. http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/info/handbook/hb12diss.html

Chanson-Jabeur, Chantal.: L'Histoire africaine en Afrique : recensement analytique des travaux universitaires inedits soutenus dans les Universites francophones d'Afrique noire ... / Chantal Chanson-Jabeur, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, eds.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 1995. 245 p.

Larby, Patricia M.: Theses on Africa completed at U.K. universities, 1994-1996: Part 1, Africa in general, West Africa, Central Africa, in African Research & Documentation, No. 77, 1998

Larby, Patricia M.: Theses on Africa completed at U.K. universities,
1994-1996: Part 2, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, in African Research & Documentation, No. 78, 1998

Portuguese Studies Review - Dissertations and Theses Section: Lists dissertations on Lusophone Africa from the U.K., Portugal, Canada, U.S. Based at the Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire.

Yale University. African Collection: Has a list of print sources for dissertations about Africa. http://www.library.yale.edu/african/VIII.htm


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