Japan Studies Collection: Finding Dissertations

• ILL Request Form 
  • for items not at UH
• ILL FAQs

As of Nov. 23, 2011, UHM Library and the University of the Ryukyus Library entered a special agreement to free receprocated ILL/DD transactions for items only available from each library holdings (borrowable materials only). This pilot project will end and be reviewed after five years.

Thesis/Dissertations written in Japanese

• The National Diet Library Digitized Contents
  About 140,000 titles of Japanese doctoral dissertations (received 1991-the present) are available online in addition to about 126,000 titles provided only inside the NDL. Browse by title Title list of all the dissertations received by NDL from 1950 to the present.
  NDL Catalog   
  Tutorial on Youube (Japanese) https://youtu.be/e0uggMa6pKQ
• CiNii Dissertations by NII.  Click here to the CiNii Dissertations Quick Guide
  Search Japanese dissertations across the board.
• CiNii Research (Japanese version / English version)  List of the databases included.

Thesis/Dissertations written in English

• Dissertations & Theses Database (UHM Only)
  Formerly Digital Dissertations 
• DiVA Portal a finding tool for research publications and student theses written at the following 47 universities and research institutions in Sweden. Many are on Japanese studies.
• Open Access Thesis & Dissertations (OATD) 
  Search and access to theses & dissertations deposited in institutional repositories (Open Access)
• NDLTD Global ETD Search Electronic theses & dissertation search database