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This guide is for students in Penn State Harrisburg's AMST 500 taught by Dr. Charles Kupfer. It is intended to assist students with introductory graduate work in American Studies.
Citations and abstracts for doctoral dissertations and some theses from American and Canadian universities, and some international universities. Electronic full text of some works is available. If full text is not available, request a copy through interlibrary loan.
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Includes dissertations from England and Ireland
A good tool if you have the title of a specific dissertation. Google Scholar will provide a link to the full text if the work is open access (freely available online).
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.
Electronic access to the full text of Penn State dissertations for Penn State users. Includes a small number of Penn State master’s theses. Enter Pennsylvania State University in the box for University/institution. Search by author, title, subject, or advisor’s name
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Includes dissertations from England and Ireland
Full text of doctoral dissertations and master’s theses from about 2009 to date. Browse by author or department, or search the full text by keywords. Some works are restricted to Penn State users for intellectual property reasons on request of the author.
Provides access to Penn State electronic theses and dissertations.
Locate doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, and bachelor’s theses written at Penn State.
This is the online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items is also provided. Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million records. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.
Select Thesis/Dissertation under Format
Most works published since 2009 have links to electronic full text
Older works are print and/or microfilm. Use I Want It to have a copy sent to your campus
To get a list of all theses and dissertations from a particular department, use the CAT (legacy catalog) and do a keyword search for [program name] {699}, for example: Meteorology {699}. Departments have changed names over the years, see this Index of previous and current department names for older information.