The University of St. Thomas

Options For Obtaining Theses & Dissertations

Options for Obtaining Theses and Dissertations

If you need help identifying useful theses/dissertations, please contact a reference librarian. If you've already located a citation for a thesis/dissertation, you can borrow or purchase the full text of it as follows:

Borrow a Thesis/Dissertation 

Option Cost to you Delivery Format Notes

 Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad)

 none

2-4 weeks


Pick up at the library.
  • paper
  • microfiche
  • microfilm
 Must be returned to the library. Requests are successful only about 50% of the time: many institutions do not lend theses/dissertations.

Purchase a Thesis/Dissertation 

Options Cost to you Delivery Format Notes
 online via Dissertations & Theses database

$32-$66 depending on format selected

Immediate-3 weeks depending on format selected


Web download or priority mailed to your address.
  • PDF download
  • paper (hardbound, softbound, or unbound)
  • microfiche
  • microfilm
 Order online with credit card, or print and mail/fax order form to UMI with payment.
by phone
from UMI
(800-521-3042)

$41-$66 depending on format selected

12-15 working days


Priority mailed to your address.
  • paper (hardbound, softbound, or unbound)
  • microfiche
  • microfilm

Must have author name & title, or UMI dissertation order number. Pay with credit card.

via UST's Interlibrary Loan Department $29 prepaid to UST

3-5 working days after prepayment is received


Pick up at the library or have library mail to your address.
  • paper (unbound)
 Request thesis via ILLiad indicating in Notes field that you'd like to purchase it. ILL staff will contact you for payment.