3. Reasons for the creation of the web-based catalog of dissertations, and the selection of tools to create it

The decision to create Fielding‘s web-based catalog of dissertations was driven by several goals:

• To allow anyone with WWW-access to get basic information about the dissertations written at Fielding (and how they may be obtained).
• To allow for querying by a data element that is simply not captured in Digital Dissertations with full text and Current Research @ Fielding Graduate Institute at all: in which academic program a dissertation was written.
• To provide Fielding students, faculty, and staff with basic information about Fielding dissertations months earlier than usually available in Digital Dissertations with full text and Current Research @ Fielding Graduate Institute, which can only show dissertations once they have been submitted to and then processed by UMI.

The choice of Microsoft Access and ASP was determined simply by the fact that an ASP-capable web server was already in place, and Microsoft Access already had been purchased for other purposes, thus requiring no additional expenses for hardware or software.

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