ALIA West

September 2005

Curtin Library loads 500th digital thesis

Recently the Curtin Library celebrated the addition of the 500th Curtin thesis to the Australian Digital Thesis Database.

The 500th thesis belonged to Dr Margot Wood and was titled A study of the perception of the impact of modelling on the development of commitment to action in decision conferencing. Dr Wood received a certificate of recognition at a small ceremony at the library.

Dr Margot Wood (centre) and Library staff (left to right) David Wells, Constance Wiebrands, University Librarian Imogen Garner and Michaela Shepherdson

The Australian Digital Thesis project aims to make theses written by postgraduate research students at Australian universities easily available to the international scholarly community using the internet. The database presently contains some 4000 doctoral and master's theses from 29 Australian institutions.