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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Colleagues/</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Earlier today (On My Big 60 ooohhhhhh) [:-)] ></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">I (re)discovered EThOS, the database of UK dissertations and theses provided by the British Library ></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">[I saw a demo of a prototype [?] of the service by the developers [?] at a conference in England in 2008]</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Among other services, EThOS allows one to search / select / and in some/many cases download the full-text of items of interest FREE of charge!</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">"The aim of EThOS is:</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">•To offer a 'single point of access' where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education<br>
•To support Higher Education Institutions through the transition from print to e-theses<br>
•To help UK Higher Education Institutions expand available content by digitising paper theses<br>
•To demonstrate the quality of UK research and help attract students and research investment into UK HE\<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">To achieve this, EThOS offers a coherent and consistent interface by implementing a central 'hub' comprising an e-store and a digitisation suite at The British Library site in Boston Spa, Yorkshire.
The hub automatically harvests e-theses from Institutional Repositories and digitises paper theses from participating institutions to offer the single point of access.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Many UK institutions support Open Access to their theses, so download of their digital and digitised theses is free to the researcher. A small number of participating institutions may not be able to
offer Open Access and in this case the researcher may have to pay for the digitisation.
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Where a thesis must be digitised before supply, you can expect a short delay. However, you will be informed when the thesis is ready for collection and you can then log on to the system and download
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">EThOS can only offer the theses of participating institutions. While we expect a large number of institutions to take part, we cannot supply from an institutions which chooses not to. In this case,
you should approach the institution's library directly to gain access to a thesis."
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">>>> "Search across 250,000+ theses for free and order full text quickly and easily" <<<
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Links To EThOS And Its About / FAQs / News / Etc >>> Available At
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Enjoy !</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">/Gerry </font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Gerry McKiernan<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Science and Technology Librarian<br>
Iowa State University Library<br>
Ames IA 50011</font></div>
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