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EXPLORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD'S WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH

Members of the University of Oxford can deposit a wide range of research to ORA including articles, conference papers, theses and data.

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Search for manuscripts and archives across the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford Colleges

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What am I searching?

Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University searches descriptions of manuscripts and archives held at the Bodleian Libraries and some Oxford colleges, from across 11 online catalogues:

• Archives and post-1500 manuscripts from Bodleian Archives and Manuscripts .
• Medieval manuscripts from Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries .
• South Asian, Inner Asian and Middle Eastern manuscripts from six manuscript catalogues .
• Hebrew manuscripts from Hebrew Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries .
• Charters, deeds and seals from Charters at the Bodleian Libraries .

What can't I search?

Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University does not cover all material held at the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries and archives.

• Print holdings and electronic resources, including modern printed books, antiquarian printed books, periodicals, maps, journals, ephemera, ebooks and e-journals can be searched via SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) .
• Manuscripts of East and South-East Asia are not yet catalogued online. Guidance on using these collections can be found in the Asian and Middle Eastern special collections research guide .
• Some colleges maintain their own online manuscript and archive catalogues.

ORA ( Oxford University Research Archive ) is the institutional repository for the University of Oxford. ORA was established in 2007 as a permanent and secure online archive of research materials produced by members of the University of Oxford.

ORA aims to provide access to the full text of as much of Oxford's academic research as possible. This includes articles, conference papers, theses, research data, working papers, posters and other content types .

Making materials open access removes barriers that restrict access to research, allowing for free dissemination of full text content, available to anyone with Internet access. ORA promotes and encourages the sharing of the scholarly output produced by the members of the University of Oxford that have been published under open access conditions, whilst additionally supporting University compliance with research funder policy and assessment.

More information regarding open access at the University of Oxford can be found on the Open Access Oxford website .

Benefits of the ORA Service

ORA actively makes details of its content available to services such as the Bodleian Libraries catalogue - SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) , the British Library's EThOS service , Google , and Google Scholar , with the intent to maximise visibility of information regarding publications at Oxford with the widest possible audience. ORA offers an API (Application Programming Interface) in which other services can engage with content.

Benefits to the members of the University of Oxford include:

• Free sharing of knowledge to the academic community.
• Promoted engagement with the work — it is more easily accessible and therefore more likely to be read and cited.
• ORA makes notoriously elusive items such as some conference papers and posters, unpublished works and out of print items easy to obtain.
• It publicises the scholarly work and research of the University of Oxford and its members.
• Provides preservation and back-up of materials in the archive.

The full text and abstracts of many items within the archive can be downloaded free of charge without restriction by anyone with an Internet connection. New full texts are being added daily.

• Policies regarding the use of content, terms and conditions and notice and take down, can be found at: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/policies .
• Information regarding searching ORA can be found at: https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ora/searching-ORA .
• Links to depositing and deposit guidance can be found at: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/deposit .
• In collaboration with Research Services colleagues, who administer Symplectic Elements at Oxford, ORA offer a bulk ingest service to assist University of Oxford journal and series editors with depositing back catalogues of working paper series, and internally produced journals or other materials. Contact ORA to find out more.

Management of ORA

ORA is managed and maintained by the teams of the Scholarly Resources Department within the Bodleian Libraries. As part of the Bodleian Libraries, the service governance lies with the Curators of the University Libraries .

Support and Certification

ORA aims to share metadata about its content and the research being completed at the University of Oxford as widely and as accessibly as possible. This involves meeting certain metadata standards, such as OpenAire ; repository open access technical requirements instigated by funders, such as UKRI or as part of Coalition S ; and inclusion in registries and databases.

Some of the registries and formats which ORA is proud to be supporting are listed below. More information can be found at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api .

Copying Oxford theses

Anyone consulting a physical Oxford thesis is required to sign a copyright declaration. This states that you recognise that the thesis’ copyright rests with the author and that no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the author’s prior consent. Some Oxford theses cannot be consulted without the author's permission. Permission may be in the form of a signed letter, or an email sent from a verifiable (ie institutional) email address.

Digital copies

You can request digital copies of theses held by the libraries. The author’s permission is always required. Please contact [email protected] for a permissions form. Scanning is carried out by the Mediated Copying team at the Weston Library. A scan of a whole thesis costs £100. 

Many Oxford theses held in digital form by the libraries are available for download via the Oxford Research Archive (ORA) . Where ORA holds a digital copy of a thesis but it is not yet available for download – due to an embargo period or other restriction – a record for the thesis will exist in ORA, and you can request access via the ORA contact form.

The request will be passed to the author for permission to share a digital copy with you under the ORA terms of use. 

Dissertations and theses

Search the library, oxford brookes university, dissertation and thesis lists.

• Use the Dissertations Location List (word or pdf) to locate OBU undergraduate, MA and MSc dissertations
• All MPhils/PhD theses are listed on the British Library EThOS service.

Online dissertations and theses

• Find them on RADAR.

Print dissertations and theses

• Find them in your Library
• Find on LibrarySearch
• use format Thesis/Dissertation, search term ‘Oxford Brookes University’
• Library staff can help you search
• Place a hold on a dissertation or thesis to arrange collection in advance
• Call in to your Library to request a dissertation or thesis.  Please note you can only collect when Library staff are available: check Library opening hours before visiting.
• Print dissertations and theses can only be read within the Library they are kept in, usually for 4 hours.

Theses from other universities

Use these search tools to find theses and dissertations from other institutions.

• LibrarySearch - use Libraries Worldwide to search outside our collections
• British Library EThOS - the UK’s national thesis service from the British Library
• EBSCO Open Dissertations - thousands of open access dissertations
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) - electronic theses and dissertations.

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Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)

The Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) serves as an institutional repository for the University of Oxford and is home to the scholarly research output of its members. ORA also is the home of Oxford digital theses.

The full text and abstracts of many of these items are freely available.

How to deposit your thesis? Visit the ORA Help & Information web page to find out more, including copyright, file type and dealing with sensitive content.

Where do I find theses?

To find an Oxford thesis, search:

SOLO for print and electronic theses. You can add "thesis University of Oxford" to the title or subject keywords in the search box, or select "Theses" from the limits.

ORA (Oxford University Research Archive) for electronic theses. Help on using ORA .

For other British theses, search:

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — UK & Ireland  for theses from British and Irish universities as far back as 1716. 

EThOS - Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library.

Both services provide abstracts for most theses and some full-text downloads.

For theses from any other universities, search:

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global , where you can see a preview before purchasing the full text.

DART-Europe E-theses Portal  - gives access to open access research theses from 564 Universities in 28 European countries.

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