*Apologies for X Postings* DISSERTATIONS: Scirus Partners with Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, the World's Largest Theses and Dissertations Portal Scirus Partners with Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, the World's Largest Theses and Dissertations Portal Elsevier Press Release http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/ authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00321 http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/ A shorter URL for the above link: http://snipurl.com/id9j AMSTERDAM, OCTOBER 5, 2005 - Elsevier today announced a landmark partnership between Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) to add the extensive collection of theses and dissertations of its member institutes to Scirus. In addition to indexing the content on Scirus.com http://Scirus.com, Scirus will power a search service on the repository's site. The service will ensure this content will be easier to find on both the NDLTD and Scirus websites. The launch of the service was announced this week in Sydney at NDLTD's annual conference ETD2005. "Until now, theses and dissertations have not been fully leveraged by postgraduate students and researchers in their work because these documents have been difficult to find and retrieve," said Deborah Kahn, an associate at Electronic Publishing Services, Ltd. To combat this trend, Scirus has indexed over 200,000 theses and dissertations, in more than twelve languages, including English, Portugese, French, German, Spanish and Taiwanese, among others. The theses and dissertations are from institutes around the world, including their largest content contributors Library and Archives Canada, Hong Kong University, Brazilian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (IBICT), MIT, University of Uppsala, National Sun Yat-Sen University of Taiwan (NSYSU) and Virginia Tech. Adding to the growing success of Scirus' Repository Search service, the addition of NDLTD's impressive compilation of theses and dissertations supports Scirus' strategy to cover important and relevant scientific information. By providing full-text and fielded search capabilities on both Scirus and NDLTD's site, Scirus ensures users can easily search and find the information they need beyond web and journal content. ---------------------------------------- The complete press release may be found at the URL above. Gary Price has posted a brief news report in Search Engine Watch regarding this Scirus database development. New Content Added to Elsevier's Scirus Science-Specific Database Posted by Gary Price on Oct. 5, 2005 http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051005-175426 Fast Fact: One of the largest, if the not the largest, database of dissertations comes from UMI/ProQuest and contains more than 2 million titles dating back to 1861. Newer disserations (past two years) can be searched and previewed online for free. It's also possible to order the full text and have it delivered via mail or online. Dissertation & Theses Database UMI Products http://www.umi.com/products/pd-product-Dissertations.shtml Dissertation & Theses database is recognized worldwide because of its comprehensive coverage, high-quality information, and rigorous editorial control. The database is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses. Subject Area: All Formats: Abstracts and indexing, full image Media: Electronic, CD-ROM Overall dates of coverage: 1861 - present Total titles covered: more than 2 million Dissertation & Theses offers access to more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Over 1.7 million dissertations and theses are available from the UMI vaults on microfilm or in hardcopy, and researchers can preview many recent documents electronically through the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database, which lets users see the first 24 pages of thousands of documents online. ---------------------------------------- Read more on the web page cited immediately above. Many colleges and universities subscribe to this database in the ProQuest version and others obtain this database from services like SilverPlatter, OVID, FirstSearch, and other online databanks. The Thompson Dialog search service provides a good summary of this database and its search capabilities in the Dialog databank in this Dialog Blue Sheet. Dissertation Abstracts Online http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0035.html Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 jwne@...http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/post?postID=Vo723GDlDq4JQXxF0wBZ23uSz... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org http://www.lifeofflorida.org/> Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G, ************************************************************ Pl do visit & put your comments on Guest Book "KM Cyberary" @ http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html Apologies for X Postings   DISSERTATIONS: Scirus Partners with Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, the World's Largest Theses and Dissertations Portal Scirus Partners with Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, the World's Largest Theses and Dissertations Portal Elsevier Press Release http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/ http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00... http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/ authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00321 A shorter URL for the above link: < http://snipurl.com/id9j http://snipurl.com/id9j

AMSTERDAM, OCTOBER 5, 2005 - Elsevier today announced a landmark partnership between Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) to add the extensive collection of theses and dissertations of its member institutes to Scirus. In addition to indexing the content on http://Scirus.com Scirus.com , Scirus will power a search service on the repository's site. The service will ensure this content will be easier to find on both the NDLTD and Scirus websites. The launch of the service was announced this week in Sydney at NDLTD's annual conference ETD2005. "Until now, theses and dissertations have not been fully leveraged by postgraduate students and researchers in their work because these documents have been difficult to find and retrieve," said Deborah Kahn, an associate at Electronic Publishing Services, Ltd. To combat this trend, Scirus has indexed over 200,000 theses and dissertations, in more than twelve languages, including English, Portugese, French, German, Spanish and Taiwanese, among others. The theses and dissertations are from institutes around the world, including their largest content contributors Library and Archives Canada, Hong Kong University, Brazilian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (IBICT), MIT, University of Uppsala, National Sun Yat-Sen University of Taiwan (NSYSU) and Virginia Tech. Adding to the growing success of Scirus' Repository Search service, the addition of NDLTD's impressive compilation of theses and dissertations supports Scirus' strategy to cover important and relevant scientific information. By providing full-text and fielded search capabilities on both Scirus and NDLTD's site, Scirus ensures users can easily search and find the information they need beyond web and journal content. ---------------------------------------- The complete press release may be found at the URL above. Gary Price has posted a brief news report in Search Engine Watch regarding this Scirus database development. New Content Added to Elsevier's Scirus Science-Specific Database Posted by Gary Price on Oct. 5, 2005 < http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051005-175426 http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051005-175426

Fast Fact: One of the largest, if the not the largest, database of dissertations comes from UMI/ProQuest and contains more than 2 million titles dating back to 1861. Newer disserations (past two years) can be searched and previewed online for free. It's also possible to order the full text and have it delivered via mail or online. Dissertation & Theses Database UMI Products < http://www.umi.com/products/pd-product-Dissertations.shtml http://www.umi.com/products/pd-product-Dissertations.shtml

Dissertation & Theses database is recognized worldwide because of its comprehensive coverage, high-quality information, and rigorous editorial control. The database is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses. Subject Area: All Formats: Abstracts and indexing, full image Media: Electronic, CD-ROM Overall dates of coverage: 1861 - present Total titles covered: more than 2 million Dissertation & Theses offers access to more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Over 1.7 million dissertations and theses are available from the UMI vaults on microfilm or in hardcopy, and researchers can preview many recent documents electronically through the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database, which lets users see the first 24 pages of thousands of documents online. ---------------------------------------- Read more on the web page cited immediately above. Many colleges and universities subscribe to this database in the ProQuest version and others obtain this database from services like SilverPlatter, OVID, FirstSearch, and other online databanks. The Thompson Dialog search service provides a good summary of this database and its search capabilities in the Dialog databank in this Dialog Blue Sheet. Dissertation Abstracts Online < http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0035.html http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0035.html

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