• To retrieve ALL the records of dissertations and theses at the libraries of your choice, simply leave the
  search boxes blank, and click on the “Search” button (  ). You can also narrow your search by
  Department, Degree, Language, and Year.
   
• Search words in ALL Search Fields are treated as keywords.
   
• You cross-search the libraries of your choice by clicking the corresponding check boxes.
  The seven academic libraries that you can choose from include:
  
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong Libraries (CUHK),
  • City University of Hong Kong Library (CityU),
  • Hong Kong Baptist University Library (HKBU),
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University Library (PolyU),
  • Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library (HKUST),
  • Lingnan University Library (LU),
  • University of Hong Kong Libraries (HKU).
    
    

1. Search Fields
2. Operators
3. Narrow by other fields
4. Sorting search results
    

• KEYWORD
  Use “KEYWORD” to find records where the search words are in any of the Author, Title, Subject,
  and NOTE fields, e.g. “primary school students” or “張愛玲”.
• Author
  This search field finds keywords in the “Author” names. Use the author’s surname and given name, do not include initials. A search on “Joe Smith” is the same as “Smith, Joe”.
• Title
  Use “Title” when searching keywords in the titles of the dissertation and theses.
• Subject
  “Subject” search finds keywords in the subject headings of the records.
   

2. Operators

• Boolean, proximity and adjacency operators are used to broaden and narrow your search. 
   

  	Type in Words to search:	EXAMPLES
  ADJACENCY	Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. In some library systems, if no result is found, multiple words will be automatically searched with the operator “and”.	United States supreme court 教育制度
  TRUNCATION	Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. Use a single asterisk * to truncate from 1-5 characters. Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation. ** must be preceded by at least two characters. Use a question mark ? to match any single character in the specified position in the word.	comput* retrieves computer, computers, computation and computing, but NOT computations, computational, computerization comput** retrieves computer, computers, computation, computing, AND computations, computational, computerization Wom?n
  BOOLEAN OPERATORS	Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Parentheses group words together when using Boolean operators.	(annotated bibliography) and child* (alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation) Chinese and novel (中國 or 台灣) and not 經濟
  PROXIMITY	Use "near" to specify words within ten words of each other, in any order.	Chinese near novel 教育 near 檢討
  PARENTHESES	Use brackets to set the priorities in searching. Terms within the brackets will be processed first. If no brackets are used, the priority order of operators is : AND NOT >> AND >> OR	(reform or policy) and China and not politic* (經濟 or 金融) and 中國 and not 台灣

• Department
  
  • To search the departments in which the students were enrolled, you can choose the keyword of "Department" names from the pull-down menu.
  • "Department" search is not applicable to the University of Hong Kong Libraries (HKU).
     
   
• Degree 
  • When you search using “ALL”, DTC finds all Master or Doctoral dissertations and theses.
  • A “Doctoral’ or “Master” search is a keyword search on degree titles recorded in the library catalog records. A search limit to “Doctoral” retrieves records containing the doctoral degree titles like “Ph.D.” or “D.Ed”…
  • The following table lists the doctoral degree types in different universities as of August 31, 2006.

    University	Doctoral Degree Offered
    Chinese University of HK	D.M., Ed.D., M.D., Ph.D.
    City University of HK	Ph.D.
    HK Baptist University	Ph.D. (哲學博士)
    HK Polytechnic University	D.B.A., Ph.D.
    HK University of Science & Technology	Ph.D.
    Lingnan University	Ph.D.
    University of HK	M.D., Ph.D., S.J.D.

  • A “Master” search retrieves all dissertations and theses written by students who were not enrolled in the doctoral degrees listed above.
    
    Note: If you find any discrepancy in the above table or know any new postgraduate degree programmes introduced in these 7 universities, please contact us and we will update the table and search parameters promptly.
     
   
• Language 
  • “Language” refers to the languages used in the texts, appendices, excerpts, etc. of the dissertations and theses, please note that an English dissertation containing Chinese poetry is treated as a work in English and Chinese.
     
   
• Year (yyyy) 
  • This refers to the years the dissertations and theses are submitted to the universities.
     
   

4. Sorting search results

• Year
  • In reverse order by the year of submission to the universities.
• Title
  • By alphabetical order for titles in western languages and by internal unicodes for titles in non-western languages.
• Relevance

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