Q. What is the Leicester Research Archive?

The Leicester Research Archive (LRA) is the University of Leicester's open access repository service, now using the Figshare platform. It contains almost all theses produced by PhD students at Leicester since 2008, and many older ones, as well as other research publications. 

Content held in the LRA is also now discoverable via the library search.

Theses not available electronically can be found by using the theses search on the Library catalogue. As theses are kept in locked stacks in the Library they can be requested using our retrieval service. Once retrieved, print theses are held in the Express Zone of the Library for 48 hours. They may not be removed from the Library.