university of edinburgh thesis archive

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Useful resources for accessing Theses.

China Doctoral and Masters Dissertations Full-text Database (Simplified Chinese Version )

China Doctoral and Masters Dissertations Full-text Database (Traditional Chinese Version)

China Doctoral and Masters Dissertations Full-text Database (English version)

DART Europe E-Theses

Edinburgh research archive (era), ethos - electronic theses online service, history theses 1901-2014: historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the united kingdom and the republic of ireland.

Available via British History Online in two parts: 

https://eux.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/theses-1901-70

https://eux.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/theses-1970-2014

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

Open access theses and dissertations.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a key resource

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Proquest dissertations & theses global via web of science, uk research councils, related links.

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Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA)

Need a digital object identifier (doi) for your project report or briefing paper deposit your research output in era..

The Edinburgh Research Archive is a digital repository of original research produced at The University of Edinburgh. The archive contains documents written by, or affiliated with, academic authors, or units, based at Edinburgh that have sufficient quality to be collected and preserved by the Library, but are produced outside of traditional publishing and distribution channels. This type of material is sometimes known as Grey Literature.

Holdings in ERA include full-text digital doctoral theses, masters dissertations, reports, policy literature, working papers, newsletters, government documents, poster presentations and white papers.

When you upload your research to ERA, a record is created that can be easily found by search engines like Google. The repository generates a unique id number/link - the DOI (digital object identifier) - so you can reference your data from Pure and in publications. It also creates a citation to help other researchers reference it easily and accurately. It’s a way to maximise the visibility and impact of your data. It also means your outputs are kept safe for posterity.

Free or paid for

Free for University of Edinburgh staff and students.

Product Features

• Get a persistent identifier - the DOI (digital object identifier) for every deposit
• Delayed publication is possible (embargo)
• Wider distribution of research and scholarship throughout the world.
• More citations and attributions.
• Digital preservation of material.
• Compliance with funder mandated open access.

Applicable Disciplines

• Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• Business, Management and Accounting
• Computer Sciences
• Health Professions
• Material Science
• Neuroscience
• Physics and Astronomy
• Arts and Humanities
• Chemical Engineering
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Engineering
• Immunology and Microbiology
• Mathematics
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance
• Environmental Science
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
• Social Sciences

Terms & Conditions

Technical requirements.

• Depositors need to use EASE credentials to log-in

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SUBMITTING YOUR THESIS

All students producing theses/dissertations in the School of Informatics are asked to produce an electronic archive of their thesis. These theses are an extremely valuable resource for other researchers and for students doing projects in the future. The electronic archive enables them to make a stronger contribution, building on work that has gone before, and appropriately putting their work in context and acknowledging previous contributions.

The list of archived MSC theses can be viewed at http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/msc.html.

For this reason, you are asked to also submit a PDF document electronically.

There may be some people who have good reasons why their theses cannot or should not be made part of an electronic archive. Those people should ensure that their supervisor knows the reasons and tick the appropriate box on the submission page. Nevertheless they must still submit the thesis electronically so that it is available in that form for the external examiners.

You are asked to make an submit of your thesis in pdf format as follows:

1. Create the PDF file

Most word processing packages have the option to save a file as pdf, so generating your thesis in pdf format should be straightforward. For example, if you are using LaTeX, on a DICE machine you can use pdflatex to convert your thesis directly from latex to pdf as follows:

This will produce a file <thesis>.pdf in the same directory.

Take care to ensure that all figures, tables and listings are correctly incorporated into the pdf file you plan to submit.

2. Submit the PDF

Use the online form to submit the PDF form of your thesis. You will need to specify the name of your PDF file on this web form.

This form requires you to nominate a "project directory" that contains appropriate supporting evidence for the project examiners, as well as to provide the location of a pdf file containing your project report. The project directory should contain sufficient additional material to allow the project examiners to come to a decision on matters such as: level of completion of the project, the quality of the project and the amount of work required to complete the project.

The marking guidelines and form used to grade projects are based entirely on the content of the report. The additional material will be used to assess the accuracy of claims in the report.

Projects often build on work previously carried out, in some cases re-using code and data from earlier projects. We would like your project materials to be available for further use in research, private study or education, if requested. However, if you decide that you do not want your project materials re-used, please tick the relevant box.

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This collection contains a selection of important historical manuscripts produced by scholars from the University of Edinburgh's past.

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This guide to Library and information resources for TESOL has been compiled by the Academic Support Librarian for Moray House School of Education & Sport.

Finding Library Resources - DiscoverEd

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Some Key Databases for TESOL

• Linguistic & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Abstracts 2000 journals worldwide with coverage of books, papers. technical reports, dissertations, book reviews from 1973 onwards.
• MLA International Bibliography Citations to critical documents on literature, language, linguistics and folklore from over 4,400 journals and series and over 1000 book publishers. Also covers monographs, reference works and collections, including working papers, conference papers and proceedings.
• TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching Over 750 entries written by leading practitioners and scholars from around the world. The Encyclopedia is arranged thematically and entries are ordered A-Z within each of these themes.
• Education Source This database is a merger of databases from EBSCO and H.W. Wilson. It covers all levels of education - from early childhood to higher education - as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
• Additional databases for Education & Teacher Training
• Additional databases for Linguistics & English Language

Moray House Library

Moray House Library holds an extensive collection of books and journals mainly on the subject of Education , with specialities including Language Education and Teaching English as a Second Language .

• Moray House Library - orientation guide This guide will help you to find Moray House Library, and to navigate its services and collections.
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Using Google Scholar to find scholarly literature

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• Accessing full text in Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Like DiscoverEd, Google Scholar can be a good place to start your search but it does not allow for advanced or complex searching as in the databases.

Google Scholar may not provide access to full-text, however, by linking to the Library you can access full-text where there is a University subscription.

• Select  Settings from the top of the Google Scholar Home Page
• Select  Library Links
• Search for University of Edinburgh . Select it from the list and Save your settings

You will now see FindIt@Edinburgh links next to items in your Google Scholar results that you can use to access the full-text.

This short video below demonstrates how to do this.

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Resource Lists & Subject Guides

Resource Lists are online reading lists that can signpost you to key reading materials. Some of your courses may have a Resource List embedded in the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) but you can also access them directly. Full details are available on the Resource Lists: Information for Students webpage.

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A full list of subject guides is available on the university website. 

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