Dissertations Academic, accessibility

No national listing of academic dissertations is at present prepared. L. New-combe, in a report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Coriference of the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, discusses the accessibility of British university thesis literature in 1939. En and, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland are covered. Newcombe lists British universities together with names of publications which list titles or give abstracts of university dissertations. 

An international listing and depository would help, to be sure, but the world situation would indicate that there is much to be desired where international cooperation is concerned. Such international cooperation is not too much to hope for, but immediate success in such a venture is not likely. It is apparent that thesis literature seldom appears in bibliographies appended to research reports because academic dissertations are not readily accessible even in this country. The academy of science of an individual country may be able to help in tracing theses. It is well to be aware of the activities of the academies in various countries. In 1956, A. Vucinich, San Jose State Gollege, described the Soviet Academy of Sciences which had been reorganized with the aim of centralizing scientific research (16). 

Storgards, E. (2000). Process hygiene control in beer production and dispensing. VTT Biotechnology Academic dissertation http //ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/maa/skemi/vk/ storgards/processh.pdf. Accessed 28.04.13. 

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