[ILL-L] Lending Dissertation abstracts

[Joe Ellison]

At 11:24 AM 9/17/2007, you wrote:
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>We received several requests for abstracts from Dissertation 
>abstracts international. We have access via Dialog, does anyone know 
>if Dialog allows it to be loaned ILL? Thanks,
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>Edward Helmrich
>ILL Office
>Ryan Library
>Iona College
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It would probably depend on the licensing agreement you have with 
Dialog. You'll have to ask whoever is responsible for tracking that 
information at your library. But--are you sure the requests are truly 
for the abstracts & not intended to be for the dissertations 
themselves, with the citations merely drawn from Diss Abstracts? The 
abstracts for most US dissertations are very short (one or two 
pages), unlike those of many European dissertations (often 25 pages 
or more), and therefore not particularly useful for research purposes.


Joe Ellison
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