Browsing PhD theses from Department of Information Studies by Title

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  • Newspapers and Historical Research: A Study of Historians and Custodians in Wales 
    Secker, Jane-Louise (Aberystwyth University, 1999)
    Examines the historiographical and practical problems of using newspapers in historical research. Studies the methods of different types of professional and non-professional historians, to evaluate the value of newspapers ...
  • Resource-Based Learning: Gateway to Information Literacy 
    Laverty, Corinne Y. (Aberystwyth University, 2000)
    This dissertation investigated resource-based learning units in two school libraries in elementary school settings at Kingston, Ontario, Canada during 1994 - 1995. Resource-based learning (RBL) is defined as learning by ...
  • Retrieval of sibling studies for clinical randomised controlled trials 
    Hamad, Faten F. (Aberystwyth UniversityInformation Studies, 2013)
    ABSTRACT Aims and objectives. For a particular randomised controlled trial, it is often useful to retrieve associated siblings - qualitative research, process and economic evaluations done alongside the randomised ...
  • The skiffle craze: a popular music phenomenon of the 1950s 
    Dewe, Michael (Aberystwyth University, 1999)
    Against the background of Fifties Britain and the London coffee bar culture of its young people, the thesis examines skiffle's American origins in black and white folk music, its emergence in the UK from the revivalist ...
  • Sources for family history : a case study with particular reference to Wales, the Parrys of Llidiardau 
    Barber, B. Jill (Aberystwyth University, 1994)
    This thesis sets out to test the assumption that family history research in Wales is likely to be less successful than in England. The impact of factors such as the poor survival of sources, the use of the Welsh language ...
  • Updating Searches for Systematic Reviews 
    Sampson, Margaret Joan (Aberystwyth UniversityInformation Studies, 2009)
    Introduction: This thesis examines methods for updating searches for systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. Systematic reviews endeavour to find and synthesize all relevant research as a basis for the practice ...
  • Wrexham Newspapers 1848-1914 
    Peters, Lisa Jayne (Aberystwyth University, 2002)
    This study aims to discover if any Wrexham newspaper could claim "regional" circulation between 1848 and 1914. Eight newspapers are studied, four monthlies: the Wrexham Recorder, the Wrexham Registrar, the Wrexham (Monthly) ...

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