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We provide access to University of York PhD/MPhil theses and Masters dissertations for members of the University and visitors to the Library. We can also help you to find theses/dissertations from other institutions.

For all York theses and dissertations, copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise stated. You may copy a modest amount of material from a thesis with full attribution as defined in law. In all other circumstances you should contact the rights-holder for permission.

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All available University of York theses can be found on YorSearch , including electronic versions held in the Digital Library and White Rose eTheses. You can search YorSearch for the title, author or department and academic year.

What we hold

We hold the University's PhD and MPhil theses, including physical copies up to 2012.

White Rose eTheses   holds electronic copies from 2013 onwards, as well as a selection of pre-2013 theses.

University of York Masters dissertations for some subjects are available:

• electronically via  YorSearch
• in print via Borthwick Institute for Archives ( Note : booking is necessary)

We also hold a selection of digitised undergraduate dissertations for certain subjects:

• History   (selection from 1967 onwards)
• History of Art   (selection from 1997 onwards)
• Social Policy and Social Work   (selection from 2019 onwards)

Consulting a thesis/dissertation in the Library

Our physical theses and dissertations are kept in a secure store. To consult them you will need to request access via Borthwick Institute for Archives by emailing [email protected] with the details of the thesis and a preferred appointment date.

Note : theses and dissertations can only be consulted in the reading room at the Borthwick Institute and cannot be removed.

If you are an independent researcher and want to consult a York thesis, contact us at [email protected] .

Finding theses from other universities

You can try one of the following services to find theses by students from other institutions.

• Read more about using PhD theses on EThOS (youtube.com)
• White Rose eTheses Online holds electronic, doctoral level theses from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York
• Index to theses is an index to British and Irish higher degree theses with abstracts (summaries) or brief details of each thesis
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations allows you to search for electronic theses from around the world

If you can't access the full text of a thesis you're interested in, please complete our Request Form and we will try to source it for you. Please note the success of this may depend on the holding library's policies, or obtaining the author's permission, but we will let you know if we're unable to source it.

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• Book an appointment with your librarian who can help you find the best resources including journal articles, statistics and more. 
• Use the Skills for Learning website for step-by-step guidance on how to plan and manage your workload, and how to structure your dissertation. You will also find a Finding Information page with lots of tips on how to search for sources.
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Skills for Learning offers support on a variety of academic writing skills: report writing, writing skills for international students, literature reviews and time management advice.  See the Skills for Learning website for step by step guidance on how to plan and manage your workload, and how to structure your dissertation, and see workshops , bookable via MyHub, on topics such as:

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The DART-Europe portal offers free access to full text European doctoral theses - over 1 million open access research theses from over 500 universities in 29 European countries.

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Provides access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, with nearly 3 million full text dissertations available for download. Please note that, despite global coverage, much of the content is North American.

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Within Leeds Beckett

You can search the University repository for past Leeds Beckett research and the  Thesis and Research Data Repository (Figshare)  contains online postgraduate research theses/dissertations from Leeds Beckett students.

The Library also has some hard copies of old dissertations and theses. You can consult these to see how previous students conducted and presented their work.

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White Rose Etheses Online repository holds electronic doctoral level theses from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. York research students registered for their degree in or after October 2009 are required to upload their thesis onto this repository. All CS research students are encouraged to upload their final thesis onto this new repository. Either the departments on-line theses and reports library OR the White Rose eTheses online repository will hold final versions of submitted PhD theses.

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A LaTeX template for preparing PhD theses at the University of Leeds

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Folders and files, repository files navigation, university of leeds, condensed matter physics group thesis latex template.

This repository contains LaTeX templates for creating MPhys Reports. Transfer Reports and PhD theses at the University of leeds. It is maintained by members of the Condensed Matter Physics Group.

Instructions

Select the branch that most closely matches your degree/report

Download the .zip archive, clone or fork this repository. If you fork the repository then you could use github to keep a copy of your thesis with backups and full revision control - albeit at the expense of being a little bit public in your writing!

If you use Overleaf then you can use New Project->Upload Project and upload the zip file. The paid for version of Overleaf also offers github integration.

Fill in the .tex files in the various sub-directories with your content. You may need to uncomment the \include lines in the main template TeX file for your additional chapters.

Add figure files for your thesis to the Capter_#_Fig folders. We recommend that you use pdflatex to compile the thesis and use eps2pdf to convert your figures to pdf on the fly.

Replace library.bib file with your BibTeX library file

Print and bind

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Recent Changes

We have recently introduced some changes to Library thesis deposit, in summary:

• You are no longer required to submit a hard bound copy of your thesis to the Library, an electronic version is still required
• If your thesis should not be made immediately publicly accessible, you must upload a signed and approved restricted access form alongside your thesis deposit

To upload a research output to the repository, select the type of output from the dropdown menu and choose ‘Deposit’

It may take us up to 5 working days to confirm receipt of Theses deposits. If you require urgent acknowledgment that we have received your deposit, please Email Us once you have completed your deposit.

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It is a requirement of the University Publications Policy that you deposit all newly accepted research outputs in Symplectic. Symplectic is the University's system used for recording and uploading research outputs and to record impact and professional activities.

Access to Symplectic is available directly over the internet using your University IT username (without @leeds.ac.uk) and password.

To ensure eligibility for future REF exercises , authors must continue to follow the REF 2021 Open Access policy requirements. All journal articles and conference papers must be deposited on acceptance together with the author accepted manuscript. This guidance will be updated as soon as we have the new REF information.

Other outputs should be uploaded to Symplectic, but it is not a REF requirement.

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