Abstract
„The relatively high number of doctoral dissertations accepted every year in Spanish Universities and, with regard to scientific and cultural progress of the country, the undoubted value of any activity that may contribute towards sending out information on doctoral dissertations”, were the reasons which lead the Ministry of Education and Science to create, in 1975, a mechanised datafile of Spanish doctoral dissertations; the State Board of Universities, through the State Subcommittee of Research Promotion, were in charge of the permanent collection and transmission of data, and the General Technical Office, through the Data Processing Centre, was entrusted with setting up, maintaining and running the datafile.
Highlights
The creation of the automated datafile of doctoral dissertations meant a great step in the bibliographical control of Spanish dissertations and, on including all the ones which passed, whether they are published or not, the datafile should prove a useful tool for disseminating and gaining access to them
Doctoral dissertations represent documents of unquestionable interest as they are generated by all universities and are relatively recent[6]
The high number mentioned by the Ministerial Order of 1975 has increased constantly, especially over the last two decades with the great increase in the number of universities. This results in a high demand from university library users
Summary
The creation of the automated datafile of doctoral dissertations meant a great step in the bibliographical control of Spanish dissertations and, on including all the ones which passed, whether they are published or not, the datafile should prove a useful tool for disseminating and gaining access to them. The access to published dissertations, whatever their medium may be, does not create any problems since they form part of the university collection and are included in the established information and circulation circuits of the library.
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