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EThOS, provided by the British Library, is a free online service providing access to UK doctoral theses.

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Content  EThOS, provided by the British Library, is a free online service providing access to UK doctoral theses. It does not cover MPhils or master's dissertations.

EThOS aims to provide a central listing of all doctoral theses awarded by UK higher education institutions, with the full text of as many theses as possible. 

The database includes more than 600,000 records. Around 4,000 law theses are covered, dating from the 1920s to the present day.

Searching  EThOS has basic and advanced search facilities. Searches can be limited to theses available for immediate download.

Advanced search allows users to search by author, title, awarding body, year of award and other criteria. Boolean connectors (AND, OR, AND NOT) can be selected from a drop-down menu

Downloading  Many theses are available for download; it is necessary to create a free account to do this. 

There is an option to request digitisation of a thesis if it is not yet available for download. Sometimes this is free, but sometimes there is a charge (see FAQs). 

Help A Help menu and an FAQ page are available.

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EThOS is a UK wide repository of digitized doctoral theses. It provides full text access to 250,000 theses published in the UK as well as bibliographic records of non digitized theses. A quick and free  registration is required to access the full text content.  

• EThOS e-Theses Online Service This link opens in a new window The British Library digital repository for UK research theses offering a central access point to UK doctoral theses. The majority of universities in the UK are members. You can cross-search over 500,000 theses including those available for immediate download. more... less... Not Searchable via One Search. You must first register on an individual basis with Ethos in order to make requests through the Ethos website. The Ethos site provides further information.

When to use

EThOS is an excellent resource for finding highly specialised and original research. S tudents embarking on a doctoral programme may wish to see examples of successful theses in their own discipline and identify areas of research that have not already been covered.  

Video guide: Using Ethos to find UK theses

University of Kent (2019) Using Ethos to find UK theses.  28 August. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c3ZRC5tG0 (Accessed: 13 July 2021).

Basic search

Keep search terms simple, e.g. 'organisational culture', 'business ethics' , ' eosinophilic inflammation', ' diabetes management'. 

Full text availability is indicated by a green open padlock symbol next to the search results.  You can restrict the search results to full text only by checking the box  ' limit search to items available for immediate download' below the search bar.

Search results are listed in order of relevance. You can change the order of results to A to Z by author or year (most recent to oldest and vice versa) by using the 'sort by" option above the search results. 

Click the relevant search result to view the abstract and download the thesis (if applicable). The full text can be accessed via the 'Immediate download'   link when this is available. You will be prompted for the username and password you chose when you registered with EThOS. 

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The advanced search tool enables you to search for a specific thesis by author and title. Use  the drop-down menus next to the search boxes to select your desired search criteria. 

You can also combine search terms using the Boolean operators 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT' (drop-down menu to the left of the search boxes). Example:

'higher education' (box one) AND  'social inequality' (box two)  will instruct  the database to look for theses which contain both search terms in the thesis abstracts or titles. 

'social inequality' (box one) OR  'poverty' (box two) will instruct the database to search for each search term separately. 

'higher education' (box one) AND  'social inequality' (box two) OR  'poverty' (box three) will instruct the database to search for articles which contain the first search term 'higher education' and either the second 'social inequality' or the third 'poverty'. 

Try to keep your search terms simple especially when combining search terms.  EThOS is a highly specialised database and over complicating searches may lead to a zero result outcome. 

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DISCOVER and the Library Catalogue have been replaced by Library Search . We're busy updating all of our links, but in the meantime, please use Library Search when searching for resources or managing your Library Account.

The EThOS service is currently unavailable a result of a cyber-attack . Updates on British Library services are available via their blog .

Whilst the British Library is working to restore access to EThOS their online catalogue now provides access to digital doctoral theses held in UK institutional repositories - Using Advanced search and selecting 'Theses' from 'Material Type' dropdown menu  is recommended. To access these documents, search for a thesis and then click on a title of interest to view the full details for that work. The link can be found under the section labelled "View Online - External Resource Available" (in green) just above the "I want this" section (in red) at the bottom of the page.

See the following examples of finding theses that are available ( Available Online in green with a link to the thesis) and those that aren't (red box with 'This item is not currently available' text).

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EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) provides access to UK doctoral theses from The British Library, in association with higher education institutions in the UK. Most available theses are PhDs, but also other types of doctoral thesis, e.g. D.Ed., Mus.D., D.Eng (for M Phil and other theses contact our Get It For Me  service).

The EThOS service is currently unavailable. Updates on British Library services are available via their blog .

The British Library online catalogue now provides access to digital doctoral theses held in UK institutional repositories. To access these documents, search for a thesis and then click on a title of interest to view the full details for that work. The link can be found under the section labelled "View Online - External Resource Available" (in green) just above the "I want this" section (in red) at the bottom of the page.

You can search for all the UK theses currently listed in the British Library Catalogue and download any of the full-text theses that are already held in EThOS, either directly or via links to an institution’s own repository.  EThOS replaced the British Theses Service - microfilms are no longer available from the British Library.

How to use EThOS

To read or download theses:

• register for your own personal account with EThOS
• search the database yourself
• before you can download a thesis you must accept the terms and conditions of use; they protect the rights of the author or other rights owners
• if you need help, get in touch with the  Inter-Library Loans Team  or your Liaison Librarian .

If the doctoral thesis you want is held by EThOS you can download it immediately free of charge.

How to request a thesis that is not available for immediate download

If a digitised version of a thesis cannot be made available, EThOS will let you know. You can then make a request  through the  Get It For Me  service,  who will try to obtain the original copy of the thesis direct from the institution that holds it.

NOTE: Non-members of the University of Liverpool who wish to consult UoL theses and are unable to visit the Library in person should use the EThOS service to access them.

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The British Library provides digitised UK PhD theses online via the Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) .

You can search the site without registering. However, to download a thesis you must register and agree to the terms and conditions of access.

Access to theses which have already been digitised is free. If a thesis has not already been digitised, you may be asked to pay the cost of digitisation (£60) or it may be free. This depends on the policy of the institution supplying the thesis.

The EThOS database holds details of over 400,000 theses. Some of these are available for immediate download. Once you register you can download a thesis or request a digital copy if it is not currently available. If the thesis is not immediately available there will be a short delay while it is digitised.

Theses are supplied by participating institutions free of charge as zipped PDFs. Alternative formats (CD/DVD or paper) are available for an extra charge.

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EThOS is the UK’s national open access thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.

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Until a few years ago, one strand of the British Library's Document Supply Service was the British Thesis Service. This service offered an interlibrary loan and supply service for UK doctoral theses.

In operation for several decades, universities across the UK would send copies of their theses to the British Library at Boston Spa; the document supply service would make a microfilm or microfiche copy and then return the original thesis to the awarding university. The surrogate copy formed the thesis loan collection, and the British Library would lend the fiche - or supply a copy - in response to document supply requests.

Legal Deposit legislation in the UK[1] requires publishers to deposit a copy of every UK publication with the British Library for archival purposes. Doctoral theses are not covered by this Legal Deposit law, and there is no national mandate for thesis deposit. Each Higher Education institution develops its own policy for students submitting their theses, and for making them available to other researchers. These access options can include free open access direct from institutional repositories, interlibrary loan, scanned copies supplied in direct response to a request or a requirement for researchers to visit the library of the awarding institution in person to view the print copy held in the library's store.

The British Library's thesis collection (consisting of microfilm surrogates) was the closest thing the UK had to a national thesis collection; print theses have never been collected by the British Library.

In 2009, the EThOS electronic thesis service[2] was launched: a digitisation and supply service that entirely replicated the British Thesis Service, only in electronic print rather than print:

Institutions continued to send their theses in response to requests.

Microfilming was replaced by scanning.

The "supply" of a microfiche copy was replaced by the ability for the researcher to download the item direct from EThOS.

While the format of the copies had changed, the core idea remained: the British Thesis collection (now digitised) held by the British Library document supply service was the one-stop shop for UK theses. They could be ordered by other libraries or users, and the Library would "supply" them by making surrogate copies available from a single source, often referred to in early EThOS communications as...

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Krasnodar , kray (territory), southwestern Russia , extending northward from the crest line of the Caucasus Mountains across the plains east of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov as far as the Gulf of Taganrog. The plains, crossed by the Kuban and other rivers flowing to the Sea of Azov, form two-thirds of the region. Their steppe-grass vegetation on rich soils has been almost entirely plowed under. Widespread salt marshes and lagoons line the Azov coast. The southern third of the region is occupied by the western Caucasus, which reach 12,434 feet (3,790 metres) at Mount Psysh (in the neighbouring Karachay-Cherkessia republic) and fall gradually in height westward as they run parallel to the Black Sea, from which they are separated by a narrow coastal plain. The mountains’ lower slopes are covered by deciduous forest; higher up are conifers and alpine meadows.

The kray was established in 1937 with its headquarters at Krasnodar city in an area originally occupied by Kuban Cossacks. The population is overwhelmingly Russian but also includes some Adygey, Ukrainians, Armenians, Belarusians, and Tatars.

The northern plains form a major agricultural region that produces grains, especially winter wheat and, in the south, winter barley. Along the lower Kuban River, much swamp has been reclaimed for rice growing. Industrial crops, notably sunflowers, tobacco, and sugar beets, are important, as are vegetables along the Kuban and fruit and vines on the Caucasus foothills. Large numbers of cattle, pigs, and poultry are kept. Petroleum and natural gas are exploited on the Taman Peninsula and in the north. Novorossiysk and Tuapse are major oil-exporting ports. There are oil refineries at Krasnodar and Tuapse and a chemical complex at Belorechensk. Area 29,300 square miles (76,000 square km). Pop. (2006 est.) 5,096,572.

• Republic of Adygea

The westernmost Caucasian republic of Adygea is what remains today of the Black Sea region of the historical Circassia, which stretched from the border of Abkhazia in the south to the Sea of Azov in the north before 1864. Adygea is an enclave within the borders of Krasnodar Krai, although it lies, as the crow flies, approx. 19km from Abkhazia and 24km from Karachay-Cherkessia. The republican capitol Maikop has a population of 141.475. The second largest urban center is Adigeysk (Adygekale).

The northern part of the republic is lowlands while the southern part is mountainous comprising the western part of the Caucasus Mountain range. 40% of the land area of the republic is covered by forests. Being close to the Black Sea, Adygea has a milder climate.

Following the establishment of Soviet power in the North Caucasus, Cherkess (Adygea) Autonomous Oblast was founded in July 1922 in parts of the modern-day Adygea. A month later, its name was changed to Adygean (Cherkess) Autonomous Oblast. It would change once more in August 1928 to Adygea Autonomous Oblast which would remain intact until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 when Adygea separated from Krasnodar Krai and became one of the constituent national republics of the newly independent Russian Federation, albeit a landlocked one.

With its own local parliament and other symbols of an autonomous statehood that include having Circassian and Russian as two official languages, Adygea’s population is 463.088 which consists of Circassians (26%), Russians (64.5%) and others, including Armenians, Kurds, Ukrainians and the Roma.

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