guys and gals,it will be very nice if you can help me to find the following phd dissertation:Rebholz, Joachim Alfons, Planar Diffusions with Applications to Mathematical Finance, 1994. (UC Berkeley, Math Dept.)cheers,jin

Just talk to the copy service at the Berkeley main library -- pay a page charge,and they will do it.regards,

umi.com maintains a reasonably comprehensive dissertation archive, and will sell them to you for $50 or so apiece. In particular, they have this one.

thanks a lot for the information.

QuoteOriginally posted by: ZmeiGorynychumi.com maintains a reasonably comprehensive dissertation archive, and will sell them to you for $50 or so apiece. In particular, they have this one.Nice line of business.When I handed in my dissertation after my defense, the university made me pay a fee to this company (and indeed made everyone handing in there dissertation pay a similar fee).It's a long time ago, but have you tried contacting the author and asking if he still has an electronic version ?

QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperIt's a long time ago, but have you tried contacting the author and asking if he still has an electronic version ?actually that is the first way I want to do. however, it seems quite difficult to contact the author. i googled his name but got nothing at all!

QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: ZmeiGorynychumi.com maintains a reasonably comprehensive dissertation archive, and will sell them to you for $50 or so apiece. In particular, they have this one.Nice line of business.When I handed in my dissertation after my defense, the university made me pay a fee to this company (and indeed made everyone handing in there dissertation pay a similar fee).Yes, I tried asking my university if they would still let me have my PhD if I didn't pay this fee to UMI and they said that I could not. Their business had much more of a public value in the days before the internet, data warehousing, and especially before google became the norm. Now they are just free-loaders who provide no added value whatsoever.

QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: ZmeiGorynychumi.com maintains a reasonably comprehensive dissertation archive, and will sell them to you for $50 or so apiece. In particular, they have this one.Nice line of business.This is Publisher Utopia; no copy editing, type setting, printing, second edition, royalties(?). Nice. ppauperWho has the copyright?

QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: ZmeiGorynychumi.com maintains a reasonably comprehensive dissertation archive, and will sell them to you for $50 or so apiece. In particular, they have this one.Nice line of business.This is Publisher Utopia; no copy editing, type setting, printing, second edition, royalties(?). Nice. ppauperWho has the copyright?Cuch...funny you ask that question, because I just received the Copyright notice for my dissertation in the mail today (I am still a bit green in the working world you could say, but I landed a great job). Anyway, I guess the one benefit that Proquest provided was that they handled the filing of paperwork with the US Copyright Office. So I must oh-so-slightly retract part of my statement (but maybe not far enough for the retraction to be of any real value). Authors do receive a slight royalty on their dissertations, but like most written works, unless there are volume sales involved...the stamp probably has more value than the royalty check. Depends on the relevance (popularity) of the dissertation for the outside world I guess.