How will EThOS affect our Inter-Library outloan arrangements for theses?
All enquiries and requests that the British Library receives for access to theses at your institution will be re-routed via EThOS. If the full text of the thesis is not already available, your nominated EThOS contact (which may or may not be the same as your ILL/Document Supply contact) will then receive a request to supply it for digitisation via EThOS. Details of this supply arrangement are given in the Memorandum of Understanding. There will no longer be any voucher system applied to these transactions. Depending on you institution’s membership status with EThOS (see Participation Options), the thesis will either count as part of your digitisation quota, or the digitisation costs will need to be charged to your institution or to the requester. If in exceptional circumstances you cannot supply that particular thesis to EThOS, you must let EThOS know. If you cannot supply it for web access but are willing to lend the paper copy of that thesis, please also indicate this and EThOS will
