[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: DDM-Online End-of-Year Update

[ams-announce-admin at list.bowdoin.edu]

Dear AMS-Announce Subscribers:

    The end-of-year update of DDM-Online has now been completed and is
available for your use at http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/. The current
update of DDM-Online includes more than 500 new or revised records (received
as of 26 December 2007) and brings the total size of the database to 13,763
records.

    The substantial number of revised records reflects the final stage in
the process we began last year of reviewing each in-progress record in
DDM-Online to see if the dissertation had in fact been completed. In this
update, 499 records formerly located in the in-progress section for
"Twentieth Century" have been moved over to the completed section in
DDM-Online; work on all the earlier in-progress sections was largely
completed in previous updates. Altogether, more than 1500 former "in
progress" records have now been completed and moved to their respective
completed sections.

    In this update, we have also added hundreds of DA, UMI, RILM, and
British Library Document Supply Centre numbers to the records for completed
dissertations in the "Romantic" section of DDM-Online. Over the next year,
we will be gradually supplying these numbers for the remaining sections of
the database.

    Of course, we continue to rely on each of you as individual authors to
register your dissertation topics with us as you begin work and then to
register the dissertations themselves anew as they are completed. Online
registration is available through a link on the DDM-Online home page, but we
are always glad to send our conventional registration postcard upon request.

Please check your record in DDM-Online, and if it needs updating from a
topic to a completed dissertation (or if it is not present at all), please
do register your work with us.

    In addition, we always appreciate hearing from individuals who can
supply information on musicologically related dissertations that have not
been registered with DDM-Online for one reason or another.

    Finally, we would be very grateful if dissertation advisors and
Directors of Graduate Study would periodically review the in-progress
sections of DDM-Online and notify us of any projects they know to have been
abandoned (or completed). Quite naturally, authors sometimes neglect to
notify us if they withdraw from a program, and in the absence of specific
notice from an author or advisor, it is nearly impossible to identify an
abandoned project, especially since some dissertations are indeed "in
progress" for many years.

    With continuing appreciation for your cooperation and assistance,
                         Sincerely yours,
                            Thomas J. Mathiesen
                            Director
                            mathiese at indiana.edu
                            http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://list.bowdoin.edu/pipermail/ams-announce/attachments/20071231/3fbe36f6/attachment.html