Document Type
Conference Material
Publication Date
11-17-2017
Department 1
Library
Abstract
Borrowing requests for dissertations are a common occurrence in the world of interlibrary loan. Dissertations are attractive to student researchers because they often deal with narrowly-defined topics, and they turn up easily in the search results of many popular academic databases. However, since dissertations can exist in several formats, are usually only held by the institution for which they were created, and may or may not be freely available online, it can be difficult and time consuming to make certain all borrowing possibilities have been covered.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Dettinger, John, "Interlibrary Loan Dissertation Requests: Best Practices and the Need for OA" (2017). All Musselman Library Staff Works. 78.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/librarypubs/78
Comments
Presented at the Access Services Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 17, 2017.