Graduate Student's Guide to Libraries: Finding Library Resources

This guide outlines services and resources for graduate students in all disciplines

MARQCAT - The Libraries' Catalog

  • MARQCAT, the catalog for the Marquette Libraries, lists books, journals, DVDs, videos, and CDs that the library owns in print or electronic format.
  • MARQCATplus provides a Google-like keyword search of books and DVDs in the collection as well as full text articles retrieved from many of the libraries' article databases.  It is the default search on the Library home page.

MARQCAT gives the Call Number and Location within the libraries and indicates whether the item is Available or checked out.  Items may be requested by clicking on the "Request" icon.

Browse recently added books, including new items in the browsing collection using the "New Titles" feature in the left sidebar on MARQCAT and choose your subject area.

Checking Out Materials

Graduate Students have generous circulation privileges.  Books checked out from the general collection are due at the end of each semester, unless recalled by another registered library user.  For more information about these checkout privileges see the Graduate Student Borrowing policies.

Getting the Articles

Here's a short video showing how Find it @ MU works. (About 4 minutes long.)

Two common ways to find out if the Libraries have access to the articles you need:

1) You are searching in an article database, but it doesn't have the full-text:  

Click on  Findit@MU button in the article citation. Another window / tab opens with two possible options:

  • Links indicating Find it @MU may have located one or more sources for full text of the article. Click on the links and follow the trail to the article. 
  • Links to search MARQCAT by the journal title or its ISSN number. The journal may be available in print or electronically through a source not searchable by Find it @MU.

2) You already have a specific citation and aren't currently searching in a database:

  • Search for the journal title in MARQCAT, the library catalog;
  • Do not search the title or author of the article, MARQCAT doesn't contain article level information.

The MARQCAT record will indicate what years we have in print and/or online, providing call number locations for the print and links to the e-journal.  Once at the e-journal, navigate to the volume, issue and page that you need.

Questions:

Didn't find the article/journal using Find it @MU or MARQCAT?  Request the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) by clicking on the link at the bottom of the Find it @MU window or tab.  Learn more about ILL here.

Ever wonder why the full-text isn't there?  Watch this short video about the Business of Information.

Interlibrary Loan

The Libraries provide access to the collections of libraries around the world through our Interlibrary Loan services.  Most transactions can be done entirely online through our online ILLiad service.  full information can be found at the Interlibrary Loan site:


Interlibrary Loan Introduction video (6:23) Captions available. 

Find Other Dissertations and Theses

To find dissertations and theses written by students at other colleges and universities, try these databases: