Designed as a convenient guide to and permanent record of a wealth of widely scattered published and unpublished information, this reference work is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, descriptively annotated, classified, cross-referenced and indexed guide to over 14,200 Western-language doctoral dissertations that deal in their entirety or just in part with Korea, with overseas Korean communities, and with the Koreans who pursue their education abroad.
The typical bibliographical entry includes the author's name, year of birth, dissertation title, degree-awarding university, year and type of degree, academic major, thesis pagination, advisor's name, 60-150 word annotation, table of contents, information regarding the availability of a copy, and where appropriate, citations to the author's master's thesis and published monograph bases on his dissertation research. Intended for researchers, students and librarians, the bibliography covers studies in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, education, law and medicine completed at some 900 universities and research institutes worldwide. With its many statistical tables, it also serves as the basis for an excellent overview of research trends about Korea throughout the twentieth century.