Skip to main content

Finding University of Leicester Theses in the Leicester Research Archive (Figshare)

Image
By

Screen shot of Leicester Research Archive Figshare

Nearly all University of Leicester theses have been digitised and made available open access on the Leicester Research Archive (LRA) via Figshare.

Some theses have an embargo, meaning you cannot read the full text of those theses, and there is a small number of historical theses that are only available in print in the library.

Browsing Theses on the LRA

Browsing Theses by Department/School

Please note this will only work for theses uploaded prior to October 2019. For newer theses please browse the Theses collection (as above) or search the archive (as below).

  • Go to Figshare Leicester Research Archive.
  • Click on ‘search’.
  • On the left hand side there are filters.
  • Go to ‘Item type’ and filter by ‘thesis’.
  • A list of theses will appear on the centre of the screen.
  • To search for theses from your discipline, go to the group filter, click on 'show more' and select the School.
  • Select ‘Apply filters’ and you’ll get a list of results, showing theses from your discipline.

Searching for Theses on the LRA

  • Go to Figshare Leicester Research Archive.
  • Search for a title, keyword/topic/subject, author name or supervisor's name.
  • On the left-hand side of the search results you can then filter by theses.
  • Tick 'thesis' under Item Type and then click Apply Filters.

Finding Print Theses in the Library

  • Got to Library Search
  • Search for a title, keyword/topic/subject or author name.
  • There are filters on the right-hand side of the search results.
  • Find the Content Type filter and click Show More.
  • Tick the Theses and Apply Filters.
  • To look at a print thesis in the library you will need to sign into Library Search and place a request.
Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

You can now export multiple citations from Google Scholar

By
You can now export multiple citations from Google Scholar if you have a Google Account. Go to Google Scholar and sign into your Google Account. Conduct your search. Click on the Star icon (Save) under each reference you want to export. Then click on My Library in the top, right of the screen. Select all the references and click on the Export option: Click the Star/Save Icon Choose Export Option To Export into EndNote Choose the EndNote option. Open the EndNote file that is created. The references should automatically import into EndNote. To Export into RefWorks Choose the RefMan option. Save the RIS file that is created. Login to your RefWorks account. Click on the plus (+) button. Choose Import References. Add the RIS file you just saved. Set the file import option to RIS - Reference Manager. Click import and your references will be imported. --- Good Practice Tip: Always check that all the reference information you need has been
Read more

Searching ABS Journals in Business Source Premier

By
In Business and Management Studies, researchers undertaking a literature review sometimes search across a defined group of journals. This is a way of focusing the literature search to make the results more relevant to the questions in hand. Groups are often chosen from the Association of Business Schools (ABS)'s  Academic Journal Guide . Read more how about how they put together the guide here . There are several ways to search across ABS journals. Here is how to do it in Business Source Premier, a leading literature database for this subject area.  1.     Login into the ABS journal guide. If you have never used it before you will need to create an account. 2.     You can use the guide to draw up a group of journals either by using the Rankings information or the Fields. Fields divides up the journals into categories of research focus e.g. Accounting, Finance etc. In this example we will use the Fields. The field we are interested is ‘Operations Research and Marketin
Read more

Advanced Search Tip: Proximity (Adjacency) Searching

By
Proximity (Adjacency) Searching vs Phrase Searching When you're searching literature databases you might want to find a phrase. The easiest way to do this is to put the phrase in "speech marks". E.g. "heart disease" This will find that exact phrase - with the words next to each other in that order. BUT... You may be interested in variations on that phrase e.g. heart disease, disease of the heart, diseases of the heart, diseases of the human heart. In that case it might be better to use a proximity/adjacency search - this allows you to find one keyword next to another. Or one keyword within a specified number of words of the other keyword. When using a proximity search the keywords can be in any order. Different Databases Use Different Proximity Operators In Ovid Medline : heart adj disease finds the word heart next to the word disease, in that order.    (This is the same as searching for the phrase, of course) heart adj2 disease fin
Read more