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E-Theses Online Service

January 24, 2023

For other uses, see Ethos (disambiguation).

E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) is a bibliographic database and union catalogue of electronic theses provided by the British Library, the National Library of the United Kingdom.[1][2][3][4] As of February 2022 EThOS provides access to over 500,000 doctoral theses awarded by over 140 UK higher education institutions,[5] with around 3000 new thesis records added every month.[6][7][8][9][10]

E-Theses Online Service: EThOS
Type of site
Bibliographic database
Available inEnglish
OwnerBritish Library
URLethos.bl.uk
RegistrationOptional
Launched2009; 14 years ago (2009)[1]
Current statusActive

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,[4] an advanced search facility allows users to search for theses by publication year, awarding body, author's given name, surname, thesis title, doctoral advisor and various other metadata.[17] Data in EThOS can also be accessed programmatically (by machines) using the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) from the Open Archives Initiative (OAI),[22] DataCite[23] and its 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.

References

  1. ^ a b c Troman, Anthony; Jacobs, Neil; Copeland, Susan (2007). "A new electronic service for UK theses: access transformed by EThOS". Interlending & Document Supply. 35 (3): 157–163. doi:10.1108/02641610710780836. ISSN 0264-1615.  
  2. ^ Gould, Sara (2016). "UK theses and the British Library EThOS service: from supply on demand to repository linking". Interlending & Document Supply. 44 (1): 7–13. doi:10.1108/ILDS-10-2015-0033. ISSN 0264-1615.
  3. ^ Gould, Sara (6 June 2017). "UK theses and the British Library EThOS service: from supply on demand to repository linking". Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.803351.
  4. ^ a b c Anon (2009). . ethos.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-01-24.
  5. ^ Anon (2017). . bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24.
  6. ^ Anon (2014). Using PhD theses in research: EThOS on YouTube
  7. ^ a b Anon (2017). . bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21.
  8. ^ Anon (2017). "EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)". le.ac.uk. University of Leicester.
  9. ^ Anon (2017). "Requesting UK Doctoral Theses". bbk.ac.uk. Birkbeck, University of London.
  10. ^ Anon (2017). . 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. ^ Hawking, Stephen William (1966). Properties of Expanding Universes. repository.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.11283. OCLC 62793673. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.601153.  
  13. ^ Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot (1937). X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.727110.
  14. ^ Brian Harold May (2007). A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud (PDF). Imperial College London. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-77706-1. hdl:10044/1/1333. ISBN 978-0-387-77706-1. OCLC 754716941. OL 37141356M. Wikidata Q28971627.
  15. ^ Greer, Germaine (1968). The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare's Early Comedies. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.567. OCLC 221288543. Copac 34899608.  
  16. ^ Cox, Brian Edward (1998). Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer (PDF). desy.de (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 644443338. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.675409.
  17. ^ a b c Anon (2017). "British Library EThOS: Advanced Search". ethos.bl.uk.
  18. ^ Anon (2017). . academictree.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-08.
  19. ^ Amaral, Luís A. Nunes; David, Stephen V.; Hayden, Benjamin Y. (2012). "Neurotree: A Collaborative, Graphical Database of the Academic Genealogy of Neuroscience". PLoS ONE. 7 (10): e46608. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...746608D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046608. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3465338. PMID 23071595.  
  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.
  21. ^ Vrandečić, Denny; Krötzsch, Markus (2014). "Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase". Communications of the ACM. 57 (10): 78–85. doi:10.1145/2629489. ISSN 0001-0782.
  22. ^ Anon (2017). . bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-02-26.
  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.
  25. ^ Wu, Pensée (2009). Muscular dystrophy cell therapy : an in utero approach using human fetal mesenchymal stem cells. ethos.bl.uk (MD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/4726. OCLC 930655636.  
  26. ^ Bartels, Else Marie (1990). Studies of the physiological states of cross-striated muscle with the aim of understanding the underlying processes of the changes from one state to another. ethos.bl.uk (DSc thesis). Open University. OCLC 53556783.
  27. ^ Dighton, Chris (2020). Aspects of Bonded Composite Assemblies for Aerospace Applications. ethos.bl.uk (EngD thesis). University of Surrey.
  28. ^ Georgiou, Andreas K. (2010). Corporate governance and its effect on the performance on family and non-family companies listed on the Cyprus stock exchange. ethos.bl.uk (DProf thesis). Middlesex University. OCLC 840721110.
  29. ^ Aguilar Lopez, Evaristo (2006). DMA Portfolio 'Rhythms of the Huasteca'. ethos.bl.uk (Doctor of Musical Arts thesis). University of Salford.
  30. ^ Greaves, Mary (2011). Practitioner research : a journey in optimistic disappointment?. ethos.bl.uk (DEd thesis). Manchester Metropolitan University. OCLC 757137107.
  31. ^ Steward, Jill (2008). The development of tourist culture and the formation of social and cultural identities 1800-1914, with particular reference to Central Europe. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Northumbria University. OCLC 757146249.
  32. ^ O'Reilly, Sally Anne (2012). Dark Aemilia and inventing Shakespeare. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Brunel University London.
  33. ^ "JISCMail". www.jiscmail.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  34. ^ E-Theses Online Service on Twitter

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For other uses see Ethos disambiguation E Theses Online Service EThOS is a bibliographic database and union catalogue of electronic theses provided by the British Library the National Library of the United Kingdom 1 2 3 4 As of February 2022 update EThOS provides access to over 500 000 doctoral theses awarded by over 140 UK higher education institutions 5 with around 3000 new thesis records added every month 6 7 8 9 10 E Theses Online Service EThOSType of siteBibliographic databaseAvailable inEnglishOwnerBritish LibraryURLethos wbr bl wbr ukRegistrationOptionalLaunched2009 14 years ago 2009 1 Current statusActive Contents 1 EThOS services 1 1 Data recorded in EThOS 1 2 Searching EThOS metadata 1 3 Types of thesis included 1 4 Development and contact 2 ReferencesEThOS services Edit 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 Edit 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 update 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 The author s ORCID identifier The International Standard Name Identifier ISNI The Handle System Digital Object Identifiers DOIs 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 Edit Where present metadata can be used as search criteria So for example in addition to a basic search 4 an advanced search facility allows users to search for theses by publication year awarding body author s given name surname thesis title doctoral advisor and various other metadata 17 Data in EThOS can also be accessed programmatically by machines using the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting PMH from the Open Archives Initiative OAI 22 DataCite 23 and its Application Programming Interface API 24 Types of thesis included Edit As well as indexing Doctor of Philosophy theses EThOS holds records of other kinds of doctorates including Doctor of Medicine MD theses for example Pensee Wu s thesis 25 Doctor of Science ScD or DSc theses for example Else Bartels thesis 26 Doctor of Engineering EngD or DEng theses for example Chris Dighton s thesis 27 Doctor of Professional Studies ProfD or DProf theses for example Andreas Georgiou s thesis 28 Doctor of Music MusD or DMus and Doctor of Musical Arts DMA theses for example Evaristo Lopez thesis 29 Doctor of Education EdD or DEd theses for example Mary Greaves thesis 30 Doctor of Philosophy PhD or DPhil by prior publication in peer reviewed journals for example Jill Steward s thesis 31 Doctor of Philosophy in creative writing for example Sally O Reilly s thesis 32 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 Edit 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 References Edit a b c Troman Anthony Jacobs Neil Copeland Susan 2007 A new electronic service for UK theses access transformed by EThOS Interlending amp Document Supply 35 3 157 163 doi 10 1108 02641610710780836 ISSN 0264 1615 Gould Sara 2016 UK theses and the British Library EThOS service from supply on demand to repository linking Interlending amp Document Supply 44 1 7 13 doi 10 1108 ILDS 10 2015 0033 ISSN 0264 1615 Gould Sara 6 June 2017 UK theses and the British Library EThOS service from supply on demand to repository linking Zenodo doi 10 5281 zenodo 803351 a b c Anon 2009 British Library EThOS e theses online service ethos bl uk Archived from the original on 2009 01 24 Anon 2017 Higher Education Institutions Participating in EThOS bl uk Archived from the original on 2012 02 24 Anon 2014 Using PhD theses in research EThOS on YouTube a b Anon 2017 About EThOS bl uk Archived from the original on 2016 03 21 Anon 2017 EThOS Electronic Theses Online Service le ac uk University of Leicester Anon 2017 Requesting UK Doctoral Theses bbk ac uk Birkbeck University of London 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 Anon 2017 Professor Stephen Hawking s PhD viewed two million times bbc co uk London BBC News Hawking Stephen William 1966 Properties of Expanding Universes repository cam ac uk PhD thesis University of Cambridge doi 10 17863 CAM 11283 OCLC 62793673 EThOS uk bl ethos 601153 Hodgkin Dorothy Mary Crowfoot 1937 X ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols lib cam ac uk PhD thesis University of Cambridge EThOS uk bl ethos 727110 Brian Harold May 2007 A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud PDF Imperial College London doi 10 1007 978 0 387 77706 1 hdl 10044 1 1333 ISBN 978 0 387 77706 1 OCLC 754716941 OL 37141356M Wikidata Q28971627 Greer Germaine 1968 The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare s Early Comedies ethos bl uk PhD thesis University of Cambridge doi 10 17863 CAM 567 OCLC 221288543 Copac 34899608 Cox Brian Edward 1998 Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer PDF desy de PhD thesis University of Manchester OCLC 644443338 EThOS uk bl ethos 675409 a b c Anon 2017 British Library EThOS Advanced Search ethos bl uk Anon 2017 The Academic Family Tree academictree org Archived from the original on 2017 06 08 Amaral Luis A Nunes David Stephen V Hayden Benjamin Y 2012 Neurotree A Collaborative Graphical Database of the Academic Genealogy of Neuroscience PLoS ONE 7 10 e46608 Bibcode 2012PLoSO 746608D doi 10 1371 journal pone 0046608 ISSN 1932 6203 PMC 3465338 PMID 23071595 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 Vrandecic Denny Krotzsch Markus 2014 Wikidata a free collaborative knowledgebase Communications of the ACM 57 10 78 85 doi 10 1145 2629489 ISSN 0001 0782 Anon 2017 Frequently Asked Questions FAQ about EThOS bl uk Archived from the original on 2017 02 26 Anon 2017 DataCite search British Library PhD theses datacite org Anon 2017 DataCite REST API A common API to get all metadata from DataCite api datacite org Wu Pensee 2009 Muscular dystrophy cell therapy an in utero approach using human fetal mesenchymal stem cells ethos bl uk MD thesis Imperial College London hdl 10044 1 4726 OCLC 930655636 Bartels Else Marie 1990 Studies of the physiological states of cross striated muscle with the aim of understanding the underlying processes of the changes from one state to another ethos bl uk DSc thesis Open University OCLC 53556783 Dighton Chris 2020 Aspects of Bonded Composite Assemblies for Aerospace Applications ethos bl uk EngD thesis University of Surrey Georgiou Andreas K 2010 Corporate governance and its effect on the performance on family and non family companies listed on the Cyprus stock exchange ethos bl uk DProf thesis Middlesex University OCLC 840721110 Aguilar Lopez Evaristo 2006 DMA Portfolio Rhythms of the Huasteca ethos bl uk Doctor of Musical Arts thesis University of Salford Greaves Mary 2011 Practitioner research a journey in optimistic disappointment ethos bl uk DEd thesis Manchester Metropolitan University OCLC 757137107 Steward Jill 2008 The development of tourist culture and the formation of social and cultural identities 1800 1914 with particular reference to Central Europe ethos bl uk PhD thesis Northumbria University OCLC 757146249 O Reilly Sally Anne 2012 Dark Aemilia and inventing Shakespeare ethos bl uk PhD thesis Brunel University London JISCMail www jiscmail ac uk Retrieved 2018 03 15 E Theses Online Service on Twitter Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title E Theses Online Service amp oldid 1092410905, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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