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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 Go to  Figshare Leicester Research Archive . Click on Groups. Choose University of Leicester Theses This will default to showing you the most recently uploaded theses. 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 discip...

New Open Access University of Leicester Theses added to the Leicester Research Archive (Figshare) in July 2021: Patrick, Kieran (2021): The Zinc Finger Protein Nolz1 is Required for Striatal Development and Axon Guidance of Forebrain Tracts. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.14896815.v1 Ng, King-sau (2021): Emotional politics: the exploration of an occupy movement in Hong Kong. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.14931774.v1   Newbould, Robert (2021): Macroplastic Debris Transfer in Rivers: A Travel Distance Approach. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.14931807.v1   Hebbes, Christopher (2021): The immunomodulatory effects of nociceptin – development and validation of a biosensor assay. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.14931828.v1 Nazir, Sheraz Ahmed (2021): Assessment of myocardial injury using 3T MRI and potential attenuatio...

Finding University of Leicester Theses Browse the theses in your Department If you want to look at previous theses within your Department or subject then choose the 'Research Archive' search on the library homepage and search on 'your department theses' e.g. geography theses: This will open the Leicester Research Archive - scroll down and you will see the Theses Collection for the Department: You can then browse the theses: If you would like to read or download a particular thesis - click on the link and scroll down to the PDF option: You will then be able to read or download the thesis unless it has an embargo in place, in which case the record will state there is an embargo: Search by keyword or author Go to the Leicester Research Archive homepage:  https://lra.le.ac.uk/ Use the search box in the top right hand corner. Finding UK Theses Try searching: EThOS - Electronic Theses Online System  which is availa...

by: Grant Denkinson Research Services Consultant As part of Black History Month and Open Access Week , we took a look in Leicester Research Archive (LRA)  for the research and scholarship about Black people that has been published at University of Leicester (UoL) and made available openly to the world. Let's start with some UoL theses which LRA preserves in digital form, including digitised older theses: Dhia A.H. Aljubouri’s 1972 thesis “The Medieval Idea of the Saracen as illustrated in English Literature, Spectacle and Sport” . A scholarship from the Study Leave Committee of Baghdad University helped give Dr Aljubouri the chance to write on: “Anti-Islamic Polemics and Crusade Propaganda in the Middle Ages”, “The Horrible Saracen” in “the Non-Dramatic Writings in Middle English with particular reference to the Romances” and in “Early English Religious and Folk Drama, Spectacle, and Sport”. Brian George Holder’s thesis, also from 1972, examined the “Politics of M...

Open access at Leicester International OA week  The wrap up of the International Open Access Week 2017 is a perfect occasion to give you an update on Open Access (OA) related activities at University of Leicester accompanied with fun statistics (as fun as statistics can be!). During the Open Access week the University Open Access and Research Data Team ran a series of pop-up stalls at various locations across the main campus as well as in hospital sites (RKCSB & Glenfield), offering advice on raising the discoverability of research profiles. Also as part of the celebrations we have launched a completely redesigned OA website. Visit www.le.ac.uk/openaccess to explore the essential guidance how to make your research outputs OA. Fig.1. Main page of new, redesigned Open Access website ( www.le.ac.uk/openaccess ) The outreach campaign was in addition to routine talks and tailored training sessions that the team provides for departments across the University every y...

Finding University of Leicester Theses Browse the theses in your Department If you want to look at previous theses within your Department or subject then choose the 'Research Archive' search on the library homepage and search on 'your department theses' e.g. This will open the Leicester Research Archive - scroll down and you will see the Theses Collection for the Department: You can then browse the theses: If you would like to read or download a particular thesis - click on the link and scroll down to the PDF option: You will then be able to read or download the thesis unless it has an embargo in place, in which case the record will state there is an embargo: Search by keyword or author Go to the Leicester Research Archive homepage:  https://lra.le.ac.uk/ Use the search box in the top right hand corner: Finding UK Theses Try searching: EThOS - Electronic Theses Online System  which is available via the Brit...

Top Ten most downloaded theses from the Leicester Research Archive over the last year are: 1) Anxiety in high functioning children with autism (1999) by Alinda Gillott 2) From law to faith : letting go of secret trusts (1999) by Stephen James Alan Swann 3) The process and outcome of Transactional Analysis psychotherapy for the treatment of depression : an adjudicated case series (2013) by Mark Widdowson 4)  Financial Development, Economic Growth and Stock Market Volatility: Evidence from Nigeria and South Africa (2010) by Umar Bida Ndako 5)  The impact of Chinese culture on performance management practices in foreign firms operating in China (2014) by Anthony Wong Yuk Sun 6) The situation of street children in Zimbabwe: a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (2009) by Markim Wakatama 7)  Developing an ESP curriculum for students of health sciences through needs analysis and course evaluation in Saudi Arabia (20...