| name | alterlab-yok-tez |
| description | Searches YÖK Ulusal Tez Merkezi (tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi), Turkey's mandatory national graduate-thesis repository, for literature-review discovery and pre-proposal özgünlük (originality) checks. Drives the detailed search form (Tez Adı/Yazar/Danışman/Konu/Anahtar Kelime/Özet, tez türü, year range, language, İzinli/İzinsiz permission status) via the saidsurucu/yoktez-mcp tool, applies Turkish auto-stemming and ve/veya/içermesin boolean operators, runs paired Turkish+English queries, and emits Türkçe APA-7 thesis citations mapping Tez No to the published Yayın No. Use when the user wants to search Turkish theses, ara YÖK tez, check thesis novelty before approving a proposal, find dissertations by advisor (danışman) or university, dedupe a topic against existing tezler, or cite a YÖK thesis; respects the 2000-results-per-search cap and online-view-only access. For non-thesis Turkish journals use alterlab-dergipark or alterlab-trdizin. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite. |
| license | MIT |
| allowed-tools | Read Write Edit Bash(python:*) WebFetch |
| compatibility | No API key required — searches via the saidsurucu/yoktez-mcp connector (local `uvx` or hosted https://yoktezmcp.fastmcp.app/mcp) or by driving the public tez.yok.gov.tr Detaylı Tarama form; full-text is online-view-only, no bulk download |
| metadata | {"skill-author":"AlterLab","version":"1.0.0","last_updated":"2026-06-06"} |
YÖK Ulusal Tez Merkezi — Turkish National Thesis Search
YÖK Ulusal Tez Merkezi (the Higher Education Council's National Thesis
Center) is the single mandatory repository for every Turkish graduate thesis —
yüksek lisans (master's), doktora (doctorate), tıpta/diş/eczacılıkta
uzmanlık (medical/dental/pharmacy specialty), and sanatta yeterlik (art
proficiency). It is the authoritative source for two faculty workflows this
skill serves:
- Literature discovery — finding existing Turkish dissertations for a
review, by topic, danışman (advisor), university, or year.
- Pre-proposal özgünlük (originality) checks — before a supervisor
approves a student's thesis topic, scanning whether the same work already
exists or is embargoed-but-registered.
This skill is discovery + metadata harvesting + citation, not bulk
full-text download (full text is online-view-only — see access model below).
When to Use This Skill
YÖK Ulusal Tez Merkezi'nde "sürdürülebilir mimari" konulu tezleri ara
Bir öğrencim "sanal prodüksiyon" üzerine doktora yapmak istiyor; daha önce yapılmış mı?
Find every doctoral dissertation supervised by Prof. X at IEU
Cite this YÖK thesis in APA 7 (Turkish)
Is this thesis topic novel, or has it already been done in Turkey?
→ Construct a Detaylı Tarama (detailed search) query, run it through the
yoktez-mcp connector (or drive the form), dedupe results into a
{Tez No, year, university, danışman, title, izin} table, and — when asked —
emit a Türkçe APA-7 citation.
Does NOT Trigger — route these elsewhere
| Request | Correct skill |
|---|
| Search Turkish journal articles on DergiPark | alterlab-dergipark |
| Check a journal's TR Dizin index status / search the national citation index | alterlab-trdizin |
| Look up an academic's profile / supervised-thesis list / affiliation on YÖK Akademik | alterlab-yok-akademik |
| University program admission statistics (kontenjan, taban puan) on YÖK Atlas | alterlab-yokatlas |
| Compute doçentlik (associate-professorship) eligibility points |
