Al. Buchanan et Jpvm. Herubel, PROFILING PHD DISSERTATION BIBLIOGRAPHIES - SERIALS AND COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT IN POLITICAL-SCIENCE, Behavioral & social sciences librarian, 13(1), 1994, pp. 1-10
Political science doctoral dissertation bibliographies were examined f
or types of materials used in advanced graduate research. Following pa
tterns established in other social science disciplines, political scie
nce dissertations use materials indicative of their disciplinary inter
est and are journal and serials dependent. It is suggested that collec
tion development can benefit from a limited citation analysis of docto
ral dissertation research.