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Guelph networks of foreign officials in bologna and romagna: recruitment, careers, and governance in the age of dante (1265-1344 ca) , development of technical and vocational education in scottish secondary schooling (c. 1976-1990) , invincible weapons: christian relics in late roman and byzantine war (ad 310-1204) , imagining peripheries: english images of patagonia (1527-1694) , healing arts: an examination of madness, creativity and experience in british asylum culture, c.1840-1914 , pleuritis and peripneumonia in ancient medicine: a study of two lung diseases from the 5th century bce to the 7th century ce , inscribing the galatians: greek responses to the galatian migration (3rd-2nd centuries bc) , island polities: local government, constitutional change and political identities in orkney, shetland and the western isles, c. 1965-1990 , enterprise unionism and strategies of the autonomous labour movement: a contemporary history of taiwanese trade unions , strategies of cooperation: cultural memory in olbia in the early centuries ad , greek slavery and social mobility, 800 - 300 bc , postcolonial culture in nairobi's margins 1963-c.1982 , understanding edward bruce in john barbour's the bruce: an exploration of chivalry, kingship, community and providence in fourteenth-century historical writing , monasticism in late byzantine constantinople (1261–1453): urban, social, and institutional history , witchcraft in scotland: emotions and strategy , after the persians: memories of the persian wars in the hellenistic period , “keep this unwritten history”: mapping african american family histories in “information wanted” advertisements, 1880-1900 , 'they are ultimately to feel the benefit of change': enslaved healthcare and amelioration in trinidad and british guiana, 1780-1834 , reception of isaac newton in the scottish enlightenment: causation, gravitation, and the transformation of natural philosophy , 'from partition to decriminalisation': homosexuality in northern ireland, 1921-1982 .
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Open Content
This guide brings together information about Open Access Resources and Open Educational Resources. It aims to make Open Access resources easier to find and use for study, teaching and research.
Finding open Theses and Dissertations
University of edinburgh and uk theses.
Edinburgh Research Archive - Full text electronic copies of most University of Edinburgh PhD theses can be found online in the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). The collection comprises 23,500 items and includes MD theses from the 1700s through to PhDs recently awarded in 2020.
EThoS: e-theses online service - This service from the British Library aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by researchers.
Google Scholar Search
If you know the details of the thesis you wish to consult then an effective way to find the full text is via Google Scholar. Search for the full title in quotes, followed by the author last name, and/or date if known.
International theses
DART-Europe is a searchable database of electronic research theses held in European repositories. It covers around 586 Universities in 29 European countries.
EBSCO Open Dissertations is a free database with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world.
Global ETD Search from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) contains around 6 million records, the majority of which are open, but some may not be publicly available.
Open Access Theses & Dissertations currently indexes around 5 million open access theses and dissertations from 1100 institutions worldwide.
Making your thesis open access
Theses and dissertations from the University of Edinburgh are published online in the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). In 2020, UoE theses were downloaded 829,804 times from ERA (source IRUS-UK download report). The University has an expectation that a PhD thesis is a document available for public consultation. As such, unless a legitimate reason for restricting access to the thesis exists, all PhD theses will be made publicly available on the internet. Masters dissertations are not routinely made available online, but exceptional dissertations can be made open access.
PhD and other doctoral theses
Masters dissertations.
Only Masters Dissertations from the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences and the School of Geosciences are routinely deposited in the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). If you are from a different School you can make your master dissertation open access by depositing in ERA. You can do this by logging in with your EASE credentials, then selecting your Schools Thesis & Dissertation Collection and follow the prompts for submitting a new item to the collection.
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