If a doctoral dissertation represents an original investigation that makes a contribution to one's field, then dissertation research could, and arguably should, be disseminated into the scientific literature. However, the extent and nature of dissertation publication remains largely unknown within psychology. The present study investigated the peer-reviewed publication outcomes of psychology di...

This paper presents a module for import of theses and dissertations to CRISs. The main feature of the module is support for various formats of metadata of theses and dissertations. The model is extensible with plugins that provide support for import of other scientific-research results (papers published in journals, papers published in conferences’ proceedings, monographs, etc.) in various meta...

This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ACKNOWLEDGMENT At this time, it is my great pleasure to offer my sincere gratitude to Dr. Philip B. Dobrin. His intensive inte...