eResources Status Blog

The British Library’s EThOS, service which provides access to UK PhD theses, is still unavailable after a serious ransomware attack late last year.

Although many of the British Library’s online services are now up and running, we still do not know when EThOS will be available again.

For the latest information, please see the BL's Cyber incident update.

Until EThOS is back up and running again, if you need access to a thesis please try the following:

• Check access via the relevant University's repository 
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) provides access to Open Access PhDs around the world.
• Contact the Author directly

AES are currently experiencing issues with how they provide access to this resource, specifically surrounding Ezproxy which is the system we currently use. The team are working on it as a top priority, but have advised it may take some time to resolve.

In the meantime, you can access the resource by going to this link: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary 

Then scroll down to the Institutional subscribers link: 

Then enter the username and password from this page to access the resource: https://library.hud.ac.uk/resourcelink/142 

Please email e.mailbox@hud.ac.uk if you have any issues or a specific article you need to access.

Apologies for the inconvenience.