Biblioguías: Guide to Forestry: Academic papers

About academic papers

Theses are:

Academic works resulting from research carried out by a student researcher to attain a doctoral degree
Directed and reviewed by academic experts
Very comprehensive sources of research on a topic
Usually adapted for publication

Final Projects are:

Supervised, original academic works required to obtain the Bachelor's or Master's degree

Universities are currently publishing these documents in institutional repositories, such as UVaDOC for the University of Valladolid.

UVaDOC: final projects Institutional Repository of the University of Valladolid
Dissertations & Theses @ University of Valladolid Bibliographic database containing nearly 1,500,000 references for doctoral theses from 1867 to the present. It includes all those read or published in North American universities and in some European universities. Users can see the first 24 pages of each thesis (from 1996) and have the possibility of acquiring them. This database also contains full-text doctoral theses from the University of Valladolid from 1980 on, in pdf format.

Dialnet: Forestry Science Theses Full-text doctoral theses in the field of Forestry Science
OATD: Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD is a search engine for theses published in open access at universities and research institutes worldwide. It harvests metadata from more than 600 institutions and indexes more than 3.5 million theses.

Reference managers for your academic work

Access to Mendeley Mendeley is a bibliographic reference manager that combines online and desktop versions. It has social media features that allow researchers to promote their own work and collaborate with others by sharing comments, annotations and pdf documents. UVa has an institutional version of this service.
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