The following article provides details about the growing number of full-text e-theses, from 27 European countries, which are accessible via the DART-Europe portal. The theses date from the 16th century to the present:
COPELAND, S., 2010-2011. DART-Europe: Access to European research theses. BIBLOS. Revistă a filialei ieşene a Asociaţiei Bibliotecarilor din România, 22-23, pp. 54-57 Available from http://hdl.handle.net/10059/968
The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) has an option to select ‘Repository Statistics’ then ‘content type’ to search for details of the number of electronic theses in particular subject areas, countries, languages etc. From the site it is possible to link through to the full text of the ETDs. Available at (http://www.opendoar.org/)
UK university staff can access Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (and select ETD as a category) at http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/
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