E-Theses Online Service

[1][2][3][4] As of February 2022[update] 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.

[18] Theses indexed by EThOS have a minimum of a thesis title, author, awarding body and date.

[18] 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.

[18] Data in EThOS can also be accessed programmatically (by machines) using the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) from the Open Archives Initiative (OAI),[23] DataCite[24] and its Application Programming Interface (API).

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.

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 EThOS
Brian 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.