Essential Tools for Graduate Students

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global indexes dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1743 to the present.
• IUB students may download full text dissertations (1997 to present) from IU or other CIC (Big 10) schools at no cost.
• Print copies of older IU dissertations are kept in the Auxiliary Library Faciltiy (ALF). Request delivery of these through IUCAT (log in first) to check them out.
• Most dissertations in the ProQuest database are available for purchase.
• You may recommend that we purchase a copy for the library on your behalf.
• Or borrow them at no cost through interlibrary loan.

Use IUCAT to find more recent guides to every aspect of writing the dissertation and slaying the dissertation dragon.