1st E-only Dissertation @ UB is Anthropology

Thomas Burton has the honor of producing the first electronic only UB dissertation. "The social organization of labor : iron production and settlement at the Low Birker Site (England)" was submitted under the new Graduate School's electronic dissertation system. After the dissertation was loaded into UMI's Digital Dissertations database a record was created here at UB that provides the basic dissertation information as well as a link to the UMI database and the abstract. The good news is that if you are searching for a UB dissertation those post Fall 2005 will now have more keywords to search thanks to the abstract now being included.

In the case of Burton's record if I was looking for iron production in Cumbria and I didn't know the name of a specific site, in this case Low Birker, I could run a keyword search in the catalog using "iron production and cumbria" and this disseration would appear. In the past it would not have appeared because Cumbria is not in the dissertation title.