Library Guides: Educational Leadership, Policy, and Principalship: Finding Books, Reports, and Dissertations

Finding Books, Reports, and Dissertations

CAT - Penn State Library Catalog
List of books (and other items) owned by Penn State.

The online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries.
Includes books, ebooks, videos, periodicals, maps, music, digitized works, microfilm titles, and other formats that are in the University Libraries' collections.
Note: you will not find articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals in the library catalog.
Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million titles. Updates: Hourly as new records are added or updated.
CQ Researcher
Helpful for choosing a research topic. Explore current reports on political and social issues, including Education.

The CQ Researcher is a collection of reports covering political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Keywords: hot topics, current events, social issues, social trends, archive, English 15, CAS 100, background information, general interest, contemporary issues, overviews.
Dissertations & Theses
Student papers, which often contain deep bibliographies and cutting edge research.

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

Google Book Search
Google's search engine for books. Includes some partial and full text.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
Books, archives, and other resources from more than 10,000 college and research libraries. If you can't find it at Penn State, we can order it from another WorldCat library.

OCLC WorldCat database is the OCLC online union catalog. It contains over 43 million records describing library holdings around the world.

Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD)
A service you can use to request books, articles, and other materials that Penn State doesn't own.