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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by closeparen on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:47PM (#23587160)
>Dissertations tend to be difficult to find if they are not already listed on WorldCat or in ProQuest

My university library has a dissertation office with a copy of every one of them back to 1931. You may not be able to find them online, but you certainly can if you go in person during business hours. Is that unusual?

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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by globular-toast on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:42AM (#23590736)
Ritchie's dissertation would have been held in such a library if he submitted it. The article states that he did not.
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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by atrettel on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:15PM (#23587841)
No, that is fairy common, as far as I know. The only issue with that is that some universities will not lend out dissertations via interlibrary loan. In those cases, the only way to read a dissertation is to visit the university. This is a big problem for foreign dissertations, since it makes it extremely difficult to access the research.
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