Search the Library Catalog to find books in the GSU library collections. The Libary Catalog also lists other materials in the library - including microfilm, dissertations, movies, music, and special collections.

An Any Field search in the Library Catalog is a good place to start if you are looking for information on a topic. If you have more specific information, you can also search by title, author/creator, or subject using the Advanced Search options.

** If GSU does not have the item you are looking for, try searching the University System of Georgia Catalog and requesting the item from another USG library via GIL Express. **

Use the options listed below to find books that the GSU Library doesn't have available:

• GIL Express allows you to request books from any University System of Georgia library. Search the University System of Georgia Catalog, find the book you need. GIL Express requests usually take between 3 and 5 business days to arrive.
• You may also check out books in person from any University System of Georgia library or Emory University's libraries using your PantherCard.
• If the book isn't available from a GIL Express/USG library, you can order it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Log in with your Campus ID and password to place a request. ILL requests may take two weeks or more, so plan ahead.

Many universities require that dissertations/theses be deposited in their institutional repository, which is usually maintained by the university library. (Our institutional repository is called ScholarWorks -- see below). Unless the graduate student was able to (and chose to) request that the thesis not be made available, theses in institutional repositories are openly available and can usually be found via a web search.

So, if you are searching in Dissertations & Theses and you find a useful-sounding dissertation which is not available through that database, try searching the web by the title and author. This is more likely to work for more recent theses. However, a thesis author may choose retroactively to make their thesis available this way, so it's worth checking even for an older thesis. 

GSU Philosophy theses and dissertations and faculty publications are available through ScholarWorks.