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E-Theses Online Service: EThOS
Type of site
Bibliographic database
Available inEnglish
OwnerBritish Library
URLethos.bl.uk
RegistrationOptional
Launched2009; 15 years ago (2009)[1]
Current statusInactive, see British Library cyberattack

E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) is a

doctoral theses awarded by over 140 UK higher education institutions,[5] with around 3,000 new thesis records added every month.[6][7][8][9][10]

EThOS services

Stephen Hawking's highly viewed[11] 1966 thesis Properties of expanding universes is indexed by EThOS.[12]
Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin's 1937 thesis X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols[13] is indexed by EThOS
Brian May's 2008 thesis A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud[14] is indexed by EThOS.
Germaine Greer's 1968 thesis The ethic of love and marriage in Shakespeare's early comedies is indexed by EThOS.[15]
Brian Cox's 1998 thesis Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer[16] is indexed by EThOS.

EThOS records thesis data and metadata which can then be searched with basic[4] and advanced search terms.[17]

Data recorded in EThOS

Theses indexed by EThOS have a minimum of a thesis title, author, awarding body and date. Optional additional metadata may be included such as the thesis abstract, doctoral advisor, sponsor, cross links to other databases and the full text of the thesis itself.[17]

As of September 2017 the EThOS website gives open access to the full text of around 160,000 UK doctoral theses that have been digitised. Theses can be accessed by freely registering for then logging into EThOS. Open access is also provided by links to the Institutional repository of the awarding body. Since 2015,[7] EThOS has integrated authority control and other unique identifiers including:

Some thesis records include the name of the doctoral advisor.

Doctoral advisor metadata can be used in academic genealogies like academictree.org,[18][19] Wikidata[20][21] and the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Academic genealogies in Wikidata are built using the doctoral advisor relation (Property:P184).[20]

Searching EThOS metadata

Where present, metadata can be used as search criteria. So for example, in addition to a basic search,

Application Programming Interface (API).[24]

Types of thesis included

As well as indexing Doctor of Philosophy theses, EThOS holds records of other kinds of doctorates including:

Master's degree theses such as Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Master of Research (MRes), Master of Science (MSc) and Master of Arts (MA) theses are not indexed by EThoS. Honorary degrees are also not included as there is usually no actual written thesis.

Development and contact

EThOS was developed in partnership with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) around the UK with funding from Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) and was launched in January 2009.[1][33] EThOS staff at the British Library can be contacted during office hours on email, Twitter[34] and in person at the British Library.

Availability

EThOS was affected by the British Library cyberattack of October 2023, and remained offline in December of that year.[35]

References

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  5. ^ Anon (2017). "Higher Education Institutions Participating in EThOS". bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24.
  6. YouTube
  7. ^ a b Anon (2017). "About EThOS". bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21.
  8. ^ Anon (2017). "EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)". le.ac.uk. University of Leicester. Archived from the original on 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  9. ^ Anon (2017). "Requesting UK Doctoral Theses". bbk.ac.uk. Birkbeck, University of London. Archived from the original on 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  10. ^ Anon (2017). "EThOS Toolkit: A guide to using and participating in EThOS". ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk. Cranfield University. Archived from the original on 2017-08-23.
  11. ^ Anon (2017). "Professor Stephen Hawking's PhD viewed two million times". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC News.
  12. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.601153. Open access icon
  13. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.727110
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  14. Wikidata Q28971627
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  15. OCLC 221288543. Copac 34899608. Free access icon
  16. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.675409
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  17. ^ a b c Anon (2017). "British Library EThOS: Advanced Search". ethos.bl.uk.
  18. ^ Anon (2017). "The Academic Family Tree". academictree.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-08.
  19. PMID 23071595. Open access icon
  20. ^ a b Poulter, Martin (2017). "A step forward in the sharing of open data about theses". bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Oxford: Bodleian Library. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13.
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  23. ^ Anon (2017). "DataCite search: British Library PhD theses". datacite.org.
  24. ^ Anon (2017). "DataCite REST API: A common API to get all metadata from DataCite". api.datacite.org.
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  27. ^ Dighton, Chris (2020). Aspects of Bonded Composite Assemblies for Aerospace Applications. ethos.bl.uk (EngD thesis). University of Surrey.
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  29. ^ Aguilar Lopez, Evaristo (2006). DMA Portfolio 'Rhythms of the Huasteca'. ethos.bl.uk (Doctor of Musical Arts thesis). University of Salford. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
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  31. OCLC 757146249. Archived from the original
    on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  32. ^ O'Reilly, Sally Anne (2012). Dark Aemilia and inventing Shakespeare. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Brunel University London. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  33. ^ "JISCMail". www.jiscmail.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  34. Twitter
  35. ^ "Scholars 'stumble through' as British Library tools stay offline". Times Higher Education (THE). 2023-12-04. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
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