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Today's post for Open Access Week is in celebration of the Open Access E-theses available from Leicester Research Archive.

University of Leicester Theses have been downloaded 514,259 times from Sep 2017-Sep 2018, making them the most popular collections in the repository by a country mile.

Image credit: Table of LRA downloads by collection Sep 2017-18 courtesy of IRUS-UK
http://irus.mimas.ac.uk/

The top three downloaded theses for this period were from the Depts of Media and Communication, Education and Chemistry:

  1. 9672 Downloads
    Al-Ahmed, Mohammed S. (1987) Mass media and society: The six normative theories and the role of social, political and economic forces in shaping media institution and content: Saudi Arabia - a case study. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34594
  2. 8429 Downloads
    Yazigy, Rula Jamil. (1991) Social and psychological factors in learning English as a foreign language in Lebanon. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35692
  3. 8360 Downloads:
    Abolibda, Tariq Ziyad Y. (2015) Physical and Chemical Investigations of Starch Based Bio-Plastics. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2381/33021
For information on how to submit your PhD Thesis to the Leicester Research Archive see: the Doctoral College webpages on Beyond the Viva Exam
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