{"id":348,"date":"2012-10-16T09:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/?p=348"},"modified":"2012-10-16T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:46:02","slug":"dont-forget-about-dissertations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2012\/10\/16\/dont-forget-about-dissertations\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t forget about Dissertations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Dissertations\/theses are extremely useful when researching a field. They often provide a very nice basic introduction to the subject, a great collection of references, and excellent insights for future work. I have found that many dissertations also provide a level of detail which you will not find in peer-reviewed journals, for example, a worked calculation or sample data analysis. You may also glean information about how you would like to organize your own dissertation\/thesis. So don\u2019t forget about searching for your research topic in our ProQuest Dissertations &amp; Theses Database!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/OMBtj\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/OMBtj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published Dissertations\/theses are extremely useful when researching a field. They often provide a very nice basic introduction to the subject, a great collection of references, and excellent insights for future work. I have found that many dissertations also provide a level of detail which you will not find in peer-reviewed journals, for example, a worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2012\/10\/16\/dont-forget-about-dissertations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t forget about Dissertations!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,11],"tags":[44,4053,4054],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases","category-engineering","category-science","tag-database","tag-dissertation","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}