[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: DDM-Online Update

[Announcements for the AMS]

Dear AMS-Announce Subscribers:

   The current update of DDM-Online has now been completed and is available for your use at  <http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/>. This update includes eighty-three new or revised records (received as of 19 March 2009) and brings the total size of the database to 13,999 records.

   As part of our ongoing revision of older records, this update also includes the addition of hundreds of new index numbers (for ProQuest/Dissertation Abstracts, ProQuest/UMI, RILM Abstracts, and British Library Document Supply) to the records for completed dissertations in the "Classical" section of DDM-Online. Similar numbers were added to the "General-Miscellaneous," "Antiquity," "Middle Ages," "Renaissance," "Baroque," "Romantic," and the first half of the "Twentieth Century" sections in previous updates. In the next update, we will complete the
revision of the older records with the addition of the index numbers for the second half of the "Twentieth Century" section.

   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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