Find Dissertations by searching Digital Dissertations, which indexes over 1.5 million dissertations completed in North American (including UC) and European universities from 1861 to the present. Listings after 1980 include abstracts, and some feature 24-page excerpts. Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources, and dissertations completed at a UC campus can also be found in Library catalogs, which have limit to dissertations/theses search options:
Full-text Access: Online full-text of UC dissertations (from 1996) can be found by searching Digital Dissertations and also appear in Library catalog search results. UC Berkeley dissertations in print prior to 1996 may be found by searching the Library catalogs. Dissertations done at other UC campuses prior to 1996 or outside the UC system must be obtained through Interlibrary Loan.
The Russian State Library has created a catalog of Russian Disserations and Abstracts at http://diss.rsl.ru/?menu=disscatalog/. Some of the dissertations appear to be freely available in digital form.
Finding encyclopedias in an on-line catalog requires knowing the standard Library of Congress subject headings for this kind of reference tool. There are several subject heading formats which lead to general encyclopedies in a foreign language and encylopedias about a particular subject.
To find general encyclopedias in a foreign language use the following subject
format:
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries – [language].
Example: Encyclopedias and Dictionaries – Estonian.
To find encyclopedias on a particular subject:
[subject]—Encyclopedias. [or in some cases]
[subject]—Dictionaries.
Example: Russian Literature--Dictionaries
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Finding dictionaries in an on-line catalog requires knowing the standard Library of Congress subject headings for this kind of reference tool.There are several subject heading formats which lead to general language dictionaries and dictionaries of terms about a particular discipline.
To find general dictionaries use the following subject format:
[language name]--Dictionaries.
Example: Estonian language--Dictionaries.
To find dictionaries that translate from one language to another:
[language name]--Dictionaries--[language name]
Example: Polish language--Dictionaries--English language.
To find dictionaries on a particular subject in a foreign language:
[discipline name]--Dictionaries--[language name]
Example: Computer Science--Dictionaries--Ukrainian language.
For those of you needing online dictionaries for Russian, two valuable sites are Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (UCB Only) and Multitran.