[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: DDM-Online update

[Announcements for the AMS]

Dear AMS-Announce Subscribers:

  The end-of-summer 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 eighty-two new or revised records (received as
of 15 August 2008) and brings the total size of the database to 13,890
records.

  As part of our ongoing revision of older records, this update also
includes the addition of hundreds of new index numbers (for Dissertation
Abstracts, UMI, RILM, and British Library Document Supply) to the records
for completed dissertations in the "Twentieth Century" section of
DDM-Online. Similar numbers were added to the "Romantic" section in a
previous update, and over the coming year, we will gradually add these
numbers to the remaining sections.

  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

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