College of Leicester theses and Masters’ dissertations

Theses

Almost all doctorate theses created by Leicester students, beginning with this first award in 1924, are actually on the Leicester Research Archive (LRA ). You are able to browse by department or search all of the collection. Please be aware that if you’re a research student student at Leicester you’re needed to submit a digital copy of the final thesis in your doctoral submission.

Masters’ dissertations

dissertations@Leicester is really a new online service managed through the Library (with support from this Services) together with academic departments. The machine stores completed Masters dissertations selected by departments as types of sound practice for current students. Right now, it has selected dissertations for Criminology, Law, Management, Media Communication, Museum Studies, Politics Worldwide Relations and Psychology.

Masters’ dissertations offered by departments

• Center for Urban History – postgraduate dissertations could be looked for around the Center library catalogue
• British Local History – MA Dissertations could be read within the department and there’s a summary of PhD theses when preparing or lately completed.
• Geography – dissertations can be found through the Sources Center

Other United kingdom College Theses

• EThOS – Electronic Theses Online System
  EThOS continues to be produced by the EThOS partnership, containing several United kingdom Greater Education Institutions and also the British Library with funding from JISC, RLUK along with other HE partners. EThOS enables you to definitely search over 250,000 theses records, freely download the entire text associated with a United kingdom thesis that’s been digitised, and order for installing any thesis from among the participating institutions. Even though many theses are listed although not yet online you might request that they’re digitisised but remember that this method may take a moment.

When the thesis you want to see isn’t for auction on EThOS you can put a Speculative Request to allow them to update their records and digitise your selected thesis. You will have to register to take advantage of this particular service
• Index to Theses The electronic form of the Index to theses recognized for greater levels through the universities of effective Britain and Ireland covering 1716 to the current. It offers abstracts where available as well as provides links to local repositories (such as the LRA ) and ETHoS where theses are for sale to download.
• Libraries Information East Midlands: Locating Theses
  A really helpful help guide to locating print and electronic theses is created by LIEM and updated yearly.
• History Online
  Lists of theses carried out the U.K. from 1970-current day associated with historic research. Additionally, it includes info on individuals presently happening.

Worldwide theses

If your thesis isn’t available on the web you are able to make an application for an Inter Library Loan of the thesis. Contact Document Supply for more information.

Subject Databases that index Theses and Dissertations

The next databases index theses and dissertations, in addition to journal articles within their subject matter:

Additionally for this, you’ll find info on Library catalogues as well as on WorldCat .