Stephen Hawking's highly viewed[12] 1966 thesis Properties of expanding universes is indexed by EThOS.[13]Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin's 1937 thesis X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols[14] is indexed by EThOSBrian May's 2007 thesis A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud[15] is indexed by EThOS.Germaine Greer's 1968 thesis The ethic of love and marriage in Shakespeare's early comedies is indexed by EThOS.[16]Brian Cox's 1998 thesis Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer[17] is indexed by EThOS.
EThOS records thesis data and metadata which can then be searched with basic[4] and advanced search terms.[18]
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.[18]
As of September2017[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:
By 2026, there were plans to restore downloads and on-demand digitization "later [that year]", as well as an interim platform running solely on the platform's metadata.[38] The lack of progress on restoring EThOS has been criticised by Martin Paul Eve, who said that the interim platform lacked the centralisation central to EThOS and that the British Library had not prioritised restoration.[38]
References
123Troman, 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. ISSN0264-1615.
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