E-Theses Online Service

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 statusOffline ever since the British Library cyberattack

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 provided access to over 500,000 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] until the British Library cyberattack forced the service to be temporarily taken offline.[11]

  1. ^ a b 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. Closed access icon
  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. ^ Anon (2009). "British Library EThOS e-theses online service". ethos.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-01-24.
  5. ^ Anon (2017). "Higher Education Institutions Participating in EThOS". bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24.
  6. ^ Anon (2014). Using PhD theses in research: EThOS on YouTube
  7. ^ 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.
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