[Gedominew]

I really want a specific dissertation written by Douglas Reynolds at Georgia Institute of Technology. I suppose that I am willing to pay, if necessary. Do I have any other options than to register with GIT and buy the document?

Google Scholar fails me and I can only find the abstract on his personal site.

What sites/resources do (did?) you use to find published papers? My ****ing IEEE membership expired one month before I started this thesis.

[TepSteade]

Though I am no longer at GT, I still have a few friends over there. If the system works as it did a few years ago, I'm pretty sure these journals/docs are freely available to GT students.

I could ask, or you could just renew your IEEE membership lol.

[cajonnmu]

Sorry, Will, this brings up a bunch of related stuff - same author and/or title - but not, I think, quite what your after.
May be worth a quick look through, though?

http://www.altavista.com/web/results...on&kgs=0&kls=1

[u8MmZFmF]

Most dissertations can be obtained through ILL, though I understand this may prove difficult for you, William, seeing as Connecticut doesn't have libraries and you wouldn't be able to recognize one if it did.

[TepSteade]

I have it. Please PM me if still interested.

[berdyanskdotsu]

I really want a specific dissertation written by Douglas Reynolds at Georgia Institute of Technology. I suppose that I am willing to pay, if necessary. Do I have any other options than to register with GIT and buy the document?

Google Scholar fails me and I can only find the abstract on his personal site.

What sites/resources do (did?) you use to find published papers? My ****ing IEEE membership expired one month before I started this thesis.

Now, EE-stuff seems to be ball suckingly anal about everything compared to ChE, but can't you get someone (say maybe your adviser) to use their membership to get it for you?

Even easier though, your school should be able to get it from GT in like 2 business days through an ILL.

[Q0KmoR8K]

Your Uni should be able to order it for free (no cost to you I mean).

[UltraSearchs]

Good you see you got what you needed. As for obtaining resources, I received 90% of my articles directly from Georgia Tech's massive online database. They have virtually every Journal known to man accessible to the student. Another 5% of those I had to go to the library to get from older (say pre-1990) resources that were buried in the journal dungeon. The other 5% of papers or books I received were through Interlibrary Loan. Any fees (usually $25) per ILL request were waived to the student, and you usually received the item in about two weeks.

Currently, I use the Army Tech database to obtain my resources, but they are quite limited compared to what GT offered. This is why it is wise to have colleagues in academic environments that can slip you PDF's when you need them.

[TepSteade]

Good you see you got what you needed. As for obtaining resources, I received 90% of my articles directly from Georgia Tech's massive online database. They have virtually every Journal known to man accessible to the student. Another 5% of those I had to go to the library to get from older (say pre-1990) resources that were buried in the journal dungeon. The other 5% of papers or books I received were through Interlibrary Loan. Any fees (usually $25) per ILL request were waived to the student, and you usually received the item in about two weeks.

Currently, I use the Army Tech database to obtain my resources, but they are quite limited compared to what GT offered. This is why it is wise to have colleagues in academic environments that can slip you PDF's when you need them.

I'd not thought much of it but it is true that when I was there I could find nearly everything I needed in one of the databases they had there. So is the extensive database at GT something I took for granted and assumed it was normal for most/all universities?

[UltraSearchs]

I'd not thought much of it but it is true that when I was there I could find nearly everything I needed in one of the databases they had there. So is the extensive database at GT something I took for granted and assumed it was normal for most/all universities?

I definitely took it for granted. While I'm sure most other universities have a good number of resources shared between institutions available through ILL, it was nice to be able to obtain something immediately instead having to wait weeks for someone to scan what you needed.

[LClan439]

I really want a specific dissertation written by Douglas Reynolds at Georgia Institute of Technology. I suppose that I am willing to pay, if necessary. Do I have any other options than to register with GIT and buy the document?

Google Scholar fails me and I can only find the abstract on his personal site.

What sites/resources do (did?) you use to find published papers? My ****ing IEEE membership expired one month before I started this thesis.

Email him. Tell him about your project, and why you need his dissertation. If he has an electronic copy of it, he'll likely send you the whole thing or the relevant portion. He knows you can get it through other means anyway... not like he's going to hide it, having gotten his PhD in 1992...

Trouble is, for 1992, there may not be an electronic copy...

[Gedominew]

Email him. Tell him about your project, and why you need his dissertation. If he has an electronic copy of it, he'll likely send you the whole thing or the relevant portion. He knows you can get it through other means anyway... not like he's going to hide it, having gotten his PhD in 1992...

Trouble is, for 1992, there may not be an electronic copy...

YCH got me a scanned copy.

It looks like hell in some parts but, it is about my level of comprehension (1992 DSP is probably equivalent to 1550 medicine [thumbup]).