LibGuides: Checking Things Out: Requesting Theses and Dissertations

Thesis/Dissertation Databases and Resources

APA PsycINFO
This database is an authoritative source for scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health . Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO covers all aspects of psychology and includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.
CERN Document Server
Preprints, articles, books, journals, and photographs on particle physics and related subjects.
Dissertations and Theses
Online database of doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Full-text is available for many items, and ordering/purchasing information is included for those items with no full-text.
Dissertations and Theses at IIT
Subset of Dissertations and Theses, an online database of doctoral dissertations, featuring work by IIT students. Full-text is available for many items, and ordering/purchasing information is included for those items with no full-text.
GRC Theses List
This spreadsheet includes information on the authors, titles, and dates of publication of theses written by graduates of the College of Architecture at IIT.
NASA STI Repository (NTRS)
The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) covers the complete history of NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), from 1915 to forward.
OSTI.GOV
Free public access to over 200,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature.
The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to over 200,000 full-text documents and 3,000,000 bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format.

The Information Bridge contains documents and citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission.
ProQuest SciTech Collection
This huge database is "the ultimate science and technology research solution, combining full text journals with detailed indexing of global literature on natural sciences, engineering and technology. Areas covered include materials science, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, biology, aquatic sciences, environmental science, computer science and earth sciences in addition to many more."

The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.

For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
repository.iit
The repository supports cross-disciplinary collaboration by collecting, preserving, disseminating, and providing persistent and reliable access to all faculty, staff, and student digital research and scholarship. It is supported and maintained by the Paul V. Galvin Library. The repository also preserves library and archival collections, and serves as a living archive for other materials representing the many diverse aspects of the IIT community.
WorldCat
WorldCat is an online catalog that contains the holdings of more than 8,000 libraries worldwide. You can place requests in WorldCat for materials (minus textbooks) not owned by IIT or I-Share Libraries.

Journal articles are scanned delivered very quickly, usually 2-3 business days; books will take longer since they have to be mailed from out of state.
WorldCat Dissertation and Theses
Search dissertations and theses held in over 8,000 libraries worldwide

Using MyILL to Request an IIT Thesis/Dissertation

If you're unable to find an online copy of an IIT Thesis or Dissertation in the Dissertations and Theses at IIT database, you can submit a request for it to be scanned and shared with you via MyILL.

After logging in with your Illinois Tech credentials, click Create Request.

You can choose between different types of requests, each with its own form. Click on Scan and Deliver.

Fill out as many of the fields as you can as accurately as you can, then click Submit Request.

The ILL staff will locate the thesis/dissertation in the Galvin Library Archives and will scan it to a PDF document, which will then be shared with you.

Checking Things Out: Requesting Theses and Dissertations

Finding and Requesting Theses and Dissertations via ILL

Thesis/Dissertation Databases and Resources

Using MyILL to Request an IIT Thesis/Dissertation