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Durham Theses: Statement on Amazon resale of Durham Doctoral Theses

You may be aware that a large volume of publications authored by Durham University staff and students, both past and present, has recently been offered for sale online as Kindle Books via Amazon.

The majority of these works appear to be PhD theses, but other works also appear to have been affected.

All works in question were listed as authored by “Durham Philosophy”, which has no known connection to the University and is not endorsed by the University.

Please be aware that reproduction of these works on Amazon and the offering of such works for sale is a breach of both the University’s copyright and the terms of use for Durham eTheses and Durham Research Online, from where we believe these works have been taken.

In line with the University’s charitable status to disseminate scholarly research in order to make its content available to support personal research or study, and further educational needs, Durham University has made its theses available to the public. The University does not seek commercial gain from PhD theses in the first instance and, therefore, subject to any restrictions, we make our PhD theses available, free of charge, to the public to read online at  etheses.dur.ac.uk . Access to our PhD theses via etheses.dur.ac.uk makes it clear to the individual that access and use of the content of our PhD theses is solely for non-commercial purposes.

Since we first became aware of these publications being listed for sale in November 2020, we have been filing Take Down Notices (TDNs) for all reported items, and where copyright was held by the University, to Amazon to have them removed from the website. We are pleased that this has followed. We encourage staff and students past and present who have been affected to contact us with any further cases that they become aware of.

In January 2021, we became aware of a greatly increased number of publications being listed for sale. As a result, on Monday 14 January we wrote to all current staff and students to inform them of the issue and advise them on how to proceed if they had any concerns that their work had appeared and was offered for sale, without authorisation, on the Amazon site.

We understand that some authors feel we could have sought to contact them directly. Our priority was to fully understand the scope of the situation and to work initially with Amazon to have those publications of which we were made aware of by staff removed from the website as quickly as possible. Our relationships with research graduates are deeply important to the University and we have reviewed this approach in light of these recent events; in future we commit to make efforts to contact authors whose work we believe is being used inappropriately as soon as possible.

University Librarian and Director of Library Services, Liz Waller, has shared the following message with our community:

“We are truly sorry for those talented authors whose research has not been shared in the spirit or medium through which we intend to make beneficial research available to the world.

“Durham University is committed to open publishing of research to ensure access and availability of new knowledge for public benefit – both in terms of further academic interest and practical application – but not to the personal detriment of our exceptional research graduates or for the commercial gain of others.

“This is why our Library and Legal teams prioritised an immediate, decisive, and comprehensive response to these unauthorised publications once the full scope of these issues was properly understood.”

“We thank those alumni and friends who have contacted the University for further advice and with messages of support.”

The University takes protection of Durham University intellectual property, including copyright in its works and rights to its trademarks very seriously. Again, we encourage staff and students past and present who are aware of any further Durham PhD theses for sale on Amazon or where you identify any publication over which you have concerns, to  please complete the form linked here .

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Durham e-Theses contains the full-text of Durham University Higher Degree theses .

All theses passed after 1 October 2009 (with a small number of exceptins) are available, or will be available following an embargo determined by the author. Durham University Library has also digitised its extensive collection of PhD, MPhil and Research Masters dissertations from 1899 onwards.

EThOS - The UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. EThOS aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers to further their own research.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637. If needed you can limit your results to institutions from countries in the UK.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  - ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations -  OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions.

DART-Europe E-Theses Portal - A partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.

South African Theses and Dissertations - via the National ETD Portal. 

Australian Theses via TROVE  - a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of Partner organisations around Australia.

OAIster - A union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources. It includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors. Results can be limited to just theses and dissertations.

Theses Canada - Launched in 1965 at the request of the deans of Canadian graduate schools, is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Canadian universities. It strives to acquire and preserve theses and dissertations from participating universities, provide free access to Canadian digital theses and dissertations in the collection, and to facilitate access to non-digital theses and dissertations in the collection

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Dissertation advice

One of the key responsibilities for our Faculty Librarians is to support our dissertation students, many of whom will be undertaking a substantial research project for the first time. Although we would always urge our students to consider what materials and resources they are actually going to have access to (this could be in terms of accessing a physical collection such as an archive, or being able to use, say, a particular database), this year it is more important than ever.

Our students must ask themselves ‘will I be able to access what I need?’ when deciding on a topic. If they need to access a certain physical archive, will that be possible with Covid restrictions still in place? And for those who feel that access to physical resources won’t apply to them as they’ll be using online resources, they need to consider instead: ‘is there a particular database or resource I need, and is it one that the library already subscribes to?’

This is a hugely important consideration.

One of the assumptions that I regularly have to correct is that either we have access to everything (if only!), or that we can suddenly provide access to something we don’t have, regardless of cost. When it comes to accessing resources such as databases, this simply isn’t possible.

But, where possible, we can still look to offer access to some materials that Durham doesn’t have, and we recognise that it’s going to be a lot more difficult to visit other libraries this year. So in order to help, we are offering up to 10 free requests from our Document Delivery Service to all final year undergraduates writing their dissertation.

We’re also offering increased online support for dissertation students. Our new subject guides provide students with a good starting point when it comes to understanding what is available in a given subject area. And as part of our wider Research Skills guide , we have a suite of interactive tutorials designed to help students find, search and manage information resources for their dissertation. There are six modules that cover:

• An introduction to dissertation research
• Using the catalogue and Discover
• Basic literature searching
• Bibliographic databases
• Accessing full-text online
• Referencing

And of course, our Faculty Librarians are always here to help!

We’ve put all of this advice into a handy short video that can be accessed via our Research Skills guide , and below.

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