Dear colleagues:
I had a very gratifying, informative response to my question
about how to obtain German Ph.D. dissertations, and since some of you
asked me to share the suggestions, here they are. Thanks to all of
you who answered my query... as always, ARLIS to the rescue.
Eileen Markson
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Students tend to publish their own
dissertations thru a large number of publishers who specialize in
dissertations: Lit Verlag, Akademie Verlag, VDG-Weimar, Kovac Verlag etc etc.
Your student could try to discover if the title has been published, via
www.buchhandel.de, or apply directly to the university which granted
the degree.
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A number of responses suggested contacting Harrassowitz, and one of
you very kindly gave all the necessary contact numbers, which are:
For contacts in the US:
general correspondence: [log in to unmask]
800 574-5732
For contacts in Germany:
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Monographic orders: Gunter Schilly at [log in to unmask]
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I found that I had to contact the academic department directly.
Fortunately I could do it via e-mail and English worked just fine.
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Just write direct to the Univ - usually we
address it to the Librarian . They often give you a free copy! Or they
will tell you where to buy or give you a quite for a xerox/microform. Our
form letter asks for this info if a printed ed. not available.
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CRL in Chicago tries to collect all foreign dissertations. You might try
them directly. They have a special link from their website to their
dissertation index :http://www.crl.edu/dbdissertations/search.asp
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You might try going into the particular university library website
and seeing if you can acquire it through the ILL or photocopy service
offered there. Sometimes the most direct approach works with foreign
universities.
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It is common for dissertations to be properly published in Germany and some
other European countries (The Netherlands and Austria). They are done by
specialist publishers. I have acquired some in the past from Wasmuth in
Berlin. In some universities the student gets some to distribute and the
university gets the rest. However, if you have the all the publication
details, you could check it out in the German books in print(VLB - available
at www.wasmuth.de), although often such material does no get into commercial
bibliographies. I suspect that Wasmuth will be the best for such a thing.
Also I think that you will find that some German universities do contribute
to Dissertation Abtracts and hence the dissertation may be available from
UMI.
--
Eileen Markson
Head, Rhys Carpenter Library
for Art, Archaeology, Cities, and Classics
Bryn Mawr College
101 N. Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
Phone: (610) 526-7910
FAX: (610) 526-7975
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