Doctoral Dissertations of the University of Zagreb Published in Journals from 1880 to 1952

Abstract

The paper deals with the topic of publishing of doctoral dissertations from the end of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century. The aim of the paper is to present the outcomes of the analysis based on the corpus of the oldest dissertations produced and defended at the University of Zagreb in the period between 1880 and 1952, which were published in scientific journals and which have thus remained visible and accessible to the general public. The authors also give the survey of institutions of higher education in existence between 1880 and 1952 and some of the requirements for the doctoral degree at that time. An insight into the bibliographies of doctoral dissertations of the University of Zagreb has shown that in the mentioned period a total of 911 doctoral degrees were obtained on the basis of a dissertation, 371 of which were published in a total of 46 mainly domestic journals, such as Veterinarski arhiv, Rad JAZU, Nastavni vjesnik and Glasnik Hrvatskog prirodoslovnog društva. The obtained results are intended to provide an insight into a part of the history of scientific communication, as well as to shed light on the factors which influence the systematic acquisition and availability of dissertations (library materials with the characteristics of grey literature).