ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PQDD), renamed ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), began a phased migration to the ProQuest online information service. The new name of the database better ...reflects its long-standing inclusion of both master's theses and doctoral dissertations.
Discusses the controversy over the arrangement between UMI, a company that stores, reproduces, and sells master's theses and doctoral dissertations, and the commercially based online retailer, ...Contentville.com. Both American and Canadian scholars have been surprised to find their work being offered, without their permission, for sale online by Contentville. (DB)
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Since thesis supervision can bring to light unresolved and new psychological issues for both supervisors and students, the differences between the contexts of counseling and thesis supervision are ...detailed here. Highlights the problem and its typical dimensions with a view to designing approaches to ameliorate difficulties within departments. (EMK)
Formative evaluations of WHO's Verona Benchmark I in Estonia, Norway and Slovenia are presented and discussed. The credibility of the benchmarking tool appears to be undermined by the use of ...standards that many respondents judged to be unattainable.
The Web site Contentville.com has stirred up controversy among graduate students, especially those in Canada, because it has been selling dissertations without their authors' permission. The papers ...were made available to Contentville through an agreement with UMI Dissertations Publishing, a company that stores, reproduces, and sells theses in various formats.
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