Overview

Series H contains dissertations and postdoctoral theses submitted to universities and other German institutions with the right to confer doctorates; it also includes German-language dissertations and postdoctoral theses from Austria and Switzerland insofar as they have been published to fulfil an obligation. Editions of university publications with bibliographic records in series A or B are also shown:

• doctoral or postdoctoral year 1913 ff.
• publication year 1971 ff.
• first edition of publication (no reprints or later editions)

The bibliographic information themselves are structured on the basis of DDC Subject Categories. The subject categories included are also saved as bookmarks in the PDF file to make the Nationalbibliografie easier to navigate. Individual elements of multi-part publications are listed in their own subject category provided they have one; otherwise, they are listed in the same subject category as the complete work. Titles are arranged in alphabetical order within each subject category.

Titles have been described using the Resource Description and Access (RDA) framework since October 2015. These descriptions are based on the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).

Examples of bibliographic information

The bibliographic information for university publications already catalogued in series A closes with the subject headings assigned in accordance with the most recently updated Regeln für die Schlagwortkatalogisierung (German rules for cataloguing by subject headings) aand linked to form one or more sequences; these are italicised and prefixed with “SW:”.

The elements in each subject heading sequence are separated by semi-colons. The individual subject headings match the controlled terminology in the vocabulary used in the Integrated Authority File (GND). If a document has to be catalogued using two or more subject heading sequences, these are written consecutively and only separated by the character ¤. The subject heading sequences are followed by Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) numbers; these are prefixed by “DDC:” and also set out in lower-case italics. Up to three numbers may be listed.

If numbers are available (as is the case when a title also appears in series A), these are followed by other identifiers – also in lower-case italics – using the controlled terminology in the GND vocabulary, e.g. “data carrier”, “nature of content” and “target audience”. Multiple items in the same category are separated by the character ¤.

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