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Dissertations
The Central Library has a storage mission for all master and doctoral dissertations of the faculty of Arts. Also some of the dissertations of the faculties of Social Sciences and Economy are being stored. These dissertations can be recognized in the Libisng Catalogue by the call number starting with 'THL'
- Dissertations can not be borrowed.
- Dissertations can not be copied entirely.
Look up
You can look up dissertations in the catalogue.
Doctoral dissertations are kept in the K.U.Leuven repository (LIRIAS). From academic year 2008-2009 onwards, master papers will only be available in LIRIAs as well.
Requests
Dissertations can only be consulted after you have made a stack request through our LIBISng catalogue. This is because the dissertations are being kept in a closed stack room.
How to request permission (dissertations Arts)?
To consult some dissertations, a written permission by the author or promotor is required. This is only needed for dissertations of the faculty of Arts that are younger than 10 years and that are not freely available elsewhere (online, in another library, in a published format).
The easiest way to gain permission is trough the promotor. Email the promotor a request for permission and bring the positive answer along or forward it to centrale.bibliotheek@bib.kuleuven.be.
For dissertations from 2004 onwards you can find the name of the promotor in the dissertations subcatalogue.
When the promotor is no longer associated with the K.U.Leuven, you can contact the administrative office of the faculty of Arts to ask for his successor.
To find out who the promotor is of a dissertation older than 2004, you'll first have to make a stack request through the dissertations subcatalogue. At the desk in the Main reading room you can then inquire after the promotor's name which is available on the title page of the dissertation.
The author of a dissertation is harder to trace once he or she is no longer associated with the K.U.Leuven.
