Dear 1206-ga
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It is probably true that your query was misunderstood as being an
attempt by a student to procure a thesis which could then be used as
the basis for his own thesis. A lot of researchers tend to be
sensitive to this issue. However, anyone foolish enough to follow
that route would probably be caught by the many resources academic
staff can use to detect plagiarism!
It is certainly possible to obtain theses from most UK universities
through the British Library British Thesis Service
http://www.bl.uk/britishthesis/
which "provides access to more than 165,000 theses submitted for
doctoral degrees from almost all UK universities"
The ways in which you can identify a thesis of interest are listed by
the British Library as being:
1. "Subject indexed information on holdings may be found in the SIGLE
database, available from GEM, STN-International, and SilverPlatter."
SIGLE is a commercial database. A library might have the facilities to
carry out a search for you, although this might have to be done for a
fee. You will probably need to find a larger library with a business
section, eg a county library.
2. "Brief records are also included in the Document Supply books file
on the British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC)."
The URL for this catalogue is: http://blpc.bl.uk/ Click on "Search",
select "Document Supply Material Only" and then put some key words of
interest into the "subject" field. However, I did not find this route
particularly useful.
3. "Another useful source of information on British theses is the
Index to theses... - most doctoral theses listed there are available
for supply through our British Thesis Service."
You can access the Index to Theses at http://www.theses.com/ Oddly,
although it says you have to be a subscriber to the print version in
order to use the web version, if you click on "Search" you will be
taken to a search form where you can put in key words and obtain
results without being asked for an ID, Perhaps this is a temporary
fluke! Some of the records include a summary of the thesis.
Unfortunately, there is no indication of length.
4. Finally, the British Library says "We offer a limited thesis search
service. Send your enquiry to dsc-british-thesis-service@bl.uk." They
do not explain what they mean by "limited", but it might be worth
contacting them and describing what you are trying to find.
Non-registered users in the UK can order a thesis from the British
Thesis Service at the following prices:
One thesis (purchase) - paper softcover - by first class mail £48.00
One thesis (purchase) - paper hardcover 1 volume - by first class mail
£68.00
One thesis (purchase) - paper hardcover 2 volumes - by first class
mail £83.00
Payment is by credit card or debit card if you wish to order online,
which you can do at https://www.bl.uk/services/document/btsordernonreg.html
I hope this answer will bring you nearer to finding the resources you
require.
Here are some web sites which might also be of some interest to you:
http://roms.utdallas.edu/other_resources.htm includes some links to
electronic journals on marketing
http://raider.muc.edu/~botzmatj/market.html Marketing Theory: Toward a
Hierarchical General Theory in Marketing
http://www.marketingteacher.com/Lessonstore.htm Free lessons from
marketing courses
http://econpapers.hhs.se/ "EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the
worlds largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal
articles and software. We have: 112,466 Working Papers (52,577
downloadable) in 1,082 series
77,176 Journal Articles (43,924 downloadable) in 195 journals"
Typing "negotiation" into the search box brought up 100 documents (the
maximum that will be listed), similarly for "marketing". You could try
extra search terms to define exactly the subjects you wish to cover.
Search strategy: On Google: "UK Theses"
On Teoma.com: "marketing theory" "negotiation theory" "theory of
negotiation" I used Teoma because I specifically wanted to identify
collections of links from which to search further. |