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Topic
Technology;
The Dissertation
Institution
University of California - Berkeley
Title

Dissertations-in-Progress

Description

UC Berkeley provides a database called "Abstracts of UC Berkeley Dissertations-in-Progress" (ADP) on a university library Web page that students can easily search. The university library technical staff designed and maintains the database, and the Graduate Division is responsible for collecting and entering the abstracts. In addition to the 250-300-word accounts of the dissertation (which the student can revise at any time), the abstracts also include information on how to contact the author. To encourage students to put abstracts in the database and to work with other students, the library has designated a set of seminar rooms in which groups of doctoral students can meet regularly.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu:80/~gradabst/

Contact

David Szanton
Executive Director, IAS
Director, Dissertation Workshop Program
Email: szanton@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Date Posted

March 2000




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