Over 700 New College theses covering the period 1920-1985 have now been catalogued online as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects. Some of these theses have second copies at the main Library, but many others are unique copies only held in New College Library. The completion of this project means that all of New College Library’s theses are now listed on the University of Edinburgh Library’s online catalogue.
The Theses collection demonstrates the richness and diversity of Divinity research in the twentieth century, with topics ranging from the Buddhist conception of Man in relation to the Christian conception, to the Church in Shetland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – to pick just a few. Current Divinity PhD students now have improved access to the range of previous research done at New College, and New College alumni with PhDs will now be able to find the fruits of their efforts on the online catalogue.
Now that these theses are included in the University of Edinburgh online catalogue, the details of this research will be shared worldwide, not only by researchers looking for University of Edinburgh material but also by researchers using tools such as COPAC, the union catalogue of the UK’s major research libraries.
Hurrah, this is very good news. Are they accessible through the Edinburgh Research Archive? If I wanted to generally browse the New College collection of theses, (by subject area) what would be the best way?
Hello Richard,
I’ve just put up a new post about finding the theses on the catalogue.
They aren’t generally accessible via the Edinburgh Research Archive I’m afraid. Since 2005 all UoE theses have to be submitted in electronic form into ERA, but ERA’s pre-2005 holdings are limited.
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