USA: CD-ROM Dissertationen

[BLEUEL _at__ MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE]

Vor einiger Zeit ging es hier um Dissertationen auf CD-ROM. Es 
scheint, dass in USA dieses Thema von der Fachpresse aufgegriffen 
wird, ein Zeichen fuer einen baldigen Wandel? Warten wir's ab.

aus: Edupage, 7 March 1996

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UNIVERSITIES DEBATE CD-ROM DISSERTATIONS
Universities across the country are debating the issues involved in allowin
  g
doctoral candidates the option of producing their dissertation in electroni
  c
format, on CD-ROM.  For many subject areas, such as the behavioral sciences
  ,
scholars don't dispute that a CD-ROM can convey research data much more
accurately and succinctly than a type-written paper.  The problem arises 20
or 30 years from now, when those CD-ROMs will be forever inaccessible
because the technology to display them will be obsolete.  "When the Dead Se
  a
scrolls were discovered, they were 2,000 years old and we could read them,"
points out a University of Texas professor.  At the opposite end of the
spectrum, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University requires
all theses and dissertations to be submitted electronically, beginning next
January.  (Chronicle of Higher Education 8 Mar 96 A19)

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