Architectural Technology

The Library receives copies of most major theses awarded at ATU.

• Theses are held in print or online.
• Printed theses are for viewing in the library only and are held in the desk reserve area behind the information desk.
• Online theses can be viewed from any location, some are available on open access others require your ATU login credentials to access the full text.
• ATU's copyright terms and conditions apply.
• Please note some researchers have requested that their theses are not made available for consultation immediately or, in some cases, at all. 

The easiest way to find a print thesis in ATU Library on a particular topic, is to key in 'and thesis' in the search box with your search term, and selecting 'dissertation' in the content type filter. A search using the classic catalogue will work well for this type of content also.

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Undergraduate Engineering Theses in SharePoint

Research@THEA is the institutional repository for the Connacht-Ulster Alliance Libraries.

This repository makes research, taught masters and Ph.D theses from ATU, LYIT and ITSligo available online.

Other research, including conference proceedings and journal articles by staff and students are also available in the open access repository.

You can locate details of theses submitted in other Universities from the following open access sources:

• BASE, operated by Bielefeld University Library, is one of the world's biggest search engines especially for academic open access web resources.
• DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
• Digital Commons network is one of the biggest repositories in the academic world, bringing together free, full-text scholarly articles from universities and colleges worldwide.
• EThOS offers free access to the full text of selected UK theses.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is a global digital library of theses and dissertations.
• Open Access theses and dissertations aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

There are many other open access resources available, all include theses and dissertations as a content type. See our LibGuide on Open Access for further information.