Digital islam: 971 Islamic Studies Ph.D. theses

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Digital islam: 971 Islamic Studies Ph.D. theses

This project aims to digitise the 860 doctoral theses sourced from UK HEIs identified by the JISC funded ‘Review of User Requirements for Digitised Resources in Islamic Studies’.

The project will also run an initial feasibility study to test whether the 860 identified thesis are available for digitisation, and if not, how the allocation may be delivered from other related theses.

The project will use The British Library digitisation suite and experience to digitise the identified PhD theses on a cost recovery basis and to make them available via EThOS and the proposed National Gateway to islamic Resources.

This project is now complete and 971 Ph.D. Islamic Studies theses are now available.

A full list can be obtained by using the search phrase 'JISC Digital Islam' on the Ethos service

See also the AWOL Monday, April 5, 2010 posting ETHoS: Electronic Thesis Online Service

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AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University

AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.

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