Dr Ceesay
Thanks for such a useful information. I will do my search on Dr Florence Mahoney. I know am not alone for interest in Gambian history. Sanusi and Bailo alway show interest on political history of the Gambia. Bailo once did a good job on putting series of Professor Arnold Hughes Historical Dictionary of the Gambia.
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Subject: [>-<] Introducing EThOS
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:31:28 +0000
Dear All,
I have, over the years, received many requests from researchers and students who wanted to lay hands on or read a particular PhD thesis on The Gambia – relevant to their area of research or programme of study.
This email is for the benefit of those students/scholars/researchers (who are) not based in the UK. Just to inform some of you who may not be aware that standard document supply arrangements for UK doctoral theses have now changed.
From now on, most universities in the UK are required to supply doctoral theses to EThOS which stands for Electronic Theses Online Service. It is a new service giving access to UK doctoral theses. EThOS is the UK e-theses web service at http://ethos.bl.uk
EThOS has replaced (or will be replacing) the old British Library (microfilm) thesis service and is now the standard system for access to Doctoral theses from UK universities. Microfilms will no longer be available from the British Library. But request for non-doctoral UK theses will still have to be made through the Inter library Loan.
Doctoral theses in EthOS are available to read and download by requesters, but one has to register with the system before access can/will be given. EThOS is a non-commercial service, and readers do not have to pay to read theses via its webpage.
The British Library Catalogue, I am told, holds 250,000 UK doctoral theses, but so far only 12,000 of these doctoral theses are held in EthOS. EthOS is live, but is still in its infancy stages. It is still a beta service. More and more theses will become available via EthOS in due course. I have learned that the British Library is holding a Thesis submitted in 1730. Amazing!
All the 12,000 UK doctoral theses EThOS currently holds can be read or downloaded free of charge by requesters who have registered with the system. If EthOS does not have the PhD thesis you have requested, EthOS will contact the university where the thesis was submitted, and then arrange for a copy to be made available for download through its Website.
But students who feel that their doctoral theses contain sensitive information may opt out of this system. If someone does not want his/her thesis to be made available via EthOS, that person can choose to opt out of the system.
I urge you to read Dr Florence Mahoney’s highly recommended PhD thesis, Government and Opinion in The Gambia 1816-1901, University of London, 1963. It remains, to this date, one of best sources of Gambian political history in the nineteenth-century.
Just search her name - Florence Mahoney - at http://ethos.bl.uk and if her Doctoral thesis is not available, it can still be ordered via EThOS; and EThOS will get it for you - unless of course, the author has put a restriction on it. I would have also recommended Fatma Denton’s excellent doctoral thesis on Gambian Foreign Policy under Deposed President Jawara, but access has restricted by the author.
How To Use The Service
To read or download Doctoral theses one must register with EThOS:
1) You register with EThOS yourself
2) You search the database yourself
3) You must accept the terms and conditions of use before you can download a thesis.
In addition to EthOS, most universities in the UK nowadays have their own e-theses repository. This e-repository will gradually replace the current system of holding paper copies in the library stores of universities. Theses in university repositories are available on the internet, details are picked up in search engines, and the expectation is that the author of the thesis will gain many more readers for, and citations to, his or her work.
However, unlike EThOS, readers of e-theses repository are not required to register before reading a full text, but all theses do include a copyright notice.
I hope this information helps and my apologies to those of you already familiar with EThOS.
Regards,
Ebrima Ceesay
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