What is Happening to EThOS records in Summon? 

Links for the EThOS platform in CDI records for this provider were not resolving as EThOS had to be taken down as a result of the cyber-attack and will not be restored. However, in order to allow access to these records, we have consulted the British Library EThOS personnel and have re-configured the links to resolve directly to the platforms of the contributing institutions. This should provide working access to about 60% of the UK PhD theses.

British Library have also informed us that they are in midst of the process to get the EThOS back online and the timeline for this task is around three months. Once the service is back online, we will resume a discussion about updating the metadata feed from EThOS in our Central Discovery Index serving our Summon and Primo applications.

We will update this article once we have more information available.

Last updated: 21-MAY-2025