Courses for 2nd year Historians doing thesis research

Whether you’re still trying to settle on a topic, or already reading up on a particular area, there are a host of courses over the rest of the term that can help second year History undergraduates research their thesis topic. Specially designed for second year undergraduate Historians Library staff will be running two sessions in [...]

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WISER Sessions next week on RefWorks and depositing your DPhil thesis in ORA

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 3: WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA [Wednesday 9 May 12:30 – 1:30] – Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive).  This session will focus on copyright and other issues that DPhil students need [...]

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WISER Sessions on finding stuff next week

Are you confident that you are finding the best papers to support your research and study?  Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops on finding scholarly materials. WISER: Finding stuff – books etc on SOLO (Monday 30 April 14.00.-15.00 and repeated Wednesday 30 May 14.00-14.45)  – introduces SOLO for searching Oxford Libraries and focuses on effective ways [...]

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Undergraduate history theses on SOLO and available to consult in the HFL

Final Honour School of Modern History: undergraduate theses Around 60 theses by Modern History undergraduates from 1995 to 2007 have been catalogued and can now be searched for on SOLO (the library catalogue) and consulted in the History Faculty Library.  They can be searched for on SOLO using the search term ‘Final Honour School of [...]

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History of Chemistry theses on SOLO

Oxford University Chemistry Part II: undergraduate theses Approximately 70 theses by Chemistry students from 1961 to 2010 on the History of Chemistry have been catalogued. They can now be searched for on SOLO (the library catalogue) and consulted in the History Faculty Library. The theses can be searched for on SOLO using the the search [...]

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WISER sessions on finding resources and depositing your thesis

There are lots of helpful WISER training sessions coming up in the coming weeks.  You can subscribe to a feed of upcoming sessions to keep track too. WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO [Monday 23 January 9.15 - 10.00] – Effective search techniques for finding books and other library materials using SOLO, ordering [...]

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New: Dissertations & Theses – Full-text: Humanities and Social Sciences Collections

Newly available to Oxford Users: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses and includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world, though largely from the US, covering 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations [...]

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Are you an Oxford DPhil alumnus? We need your help…

Digitisation of Oxford DPhil theses for alumni To all Oxford D.Phil. authors, Theses in digital format are rapidly becoming ubiquitous, as scholars want to make their research widely available and easily find the work of others. Thanks to the generosity and vision of Dr Leonard Polonsky, the Bodleian Libraries are able to offer to digitise [...]

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WISER: Finding Stuff – Theses and Dissertations

This session offers guidance on finding theses, both those submitted to and held in Oxford, and those from other institutions in the UK and abroad. It will demonstrate how to exploit some of the main sources of information : SOLO, Index to Theses (UK and Ireland); and Dissertations and Theses (International) EThOS and ORA. Presenters: [...]

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