Writing a Dissertation or Thesis

Includes a variety of resources for graduate students writing their theses.

Provides brief coverage of a wide array of topics related to completing a dissertation.

Information on copyright as it relates to dissertation research.

A subset of the larger Dissertations & Theses database. Covering all disciplines, the database incorporates ongoing additions for Rutgers dissertations and theses accepted as recently as last semester.

The primary source for identifying Doctoral dissertations and Master's theses from North American graduate schools and foreign universities. The database includes citations for foreign dissertations beginning in the year 1637 and U.S. dissertations beginning with the first one, accepted in 1861. The database incorporates ongoing additions for dissertations and theses accepted as recently as last semester. Useful for determining whether a dissertation on a specified topic has already been done. Works added to the database since 1997 are available full text along with strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.

Information for authors submitting dissertations to Proquest/UMI.

The "Free Check" feature doesn't require any sign-up.

Provides guidance to faculty, students, and staff on Rutgers policy and practice for using copyrighted works in academic research and publication, teaching, and other educational activity. It also offers guidance on copyright law as it applies to works that we create as authors, artists, scholars, teachers, and students.

Links and listings for information on financing your education, obtaining a fellowship, or winning a grant.

Includes a knowledge base with information useful for writing: how to write a literature review, how to write a research methodology, sample theoretical framework of a dissertation, and more. Some features are fee-based,

Information on copyright in relation to Rutgers theses and dissertations.

Links to guides for APA, CBE, Chicago and Turabian, electronic recources, government publications, MLA, and miscellaneous other citation styles. Also includes links to citation formatting and management tools and writing style manuals.

Created to "assist graduate students in thinking through the many aspects of crafting, implementing and defending a thesis or dissertation."