Abstract
"The Accessibility of British University Thesis Literature”, a pamphlet prepared for the Nottingham meeting of librarians last September by Colonel Lux-moore Newcombe, principal executive officer of the National Central Library, is a full and careful survey. A thesis usually contains original matter which may be important for the advancement of the subject, and the range of special studies has been enlarged of late. It should be easily consulted, if only that the work may not be duplicated by some other specialist. This accessibility, the writer shows, is far from being satisfactorily arranged at present. He gives a list of all the theses for degrees at British universities, and the conditions under which they can be consulted. He includes also the collections of foreign theses available. Oxford received between 1885 and 1938 about 263,000 of these. Great Britain has no great guides to her published and unpublished theses such as exist in Germany, France and the United States.
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