THE DYNAMIC EARTH: A BLOG ABOUT GEOLOGY AND THE EARTH SCIENCES

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

British Library of Online Theses

Hey! Do you guys know about EThOS? That akward looking acronym stands for Electronic Theses Online Service, and it does pretty much what it sounds like: it lets you search for British theses and download pdfs...FOR FREE! It's pretty handy, actually. I recently had a doozy of a time trying to get some unpublished PhD dissertations out of Aberdeen, for instance. With this, though, it seems to be pretty easy to quickly search out and download documents.

You have to register, but it's free, and it seems to have a lot of geo-science related theses up and available...AND if they don't have a particular one, you can put in a request and they'll get it scanned for you (probably by some Cockney street-urchin wearing a lot of Houndstooth, I reckon). Pretty handy, actually.

1 comment:

Owen said...

I’m glad you are finding some useful stuff on EThOS - as you probably know, it is early days and we know there are still improvements to make.

Any feedback on the service is always welcome. (I’m Project Director for the project to setup the EThOS service which is a joint venture between the British Library and UK Universities)