 VTechWorks, Virginia Tech's institutional repository, contains thousands of Virginia Tech theses and dissertations. This video will show you how to search for electronic theses and dissertations in VTechWorks. Let's imagine that I want to find dissertations from the Engineering Education Department in the College of Engineering. There are two ways that I can find these items, by navigating to dissertations from that department or by advanced searching. Let's start with the first way. In the VTechWorks home page, I can see a list of communities in VTechWorks. If I'm looking for a dissertation, I should choose the community E.T.D.s, Virginia Tech electronic theses and dissertations. Within this community, there are several collections. I'm going to choose doctoral dissertations, since that's what I'm looking for. Since I'm looking for items from a particular program, I'll want to use the limiters available on the right hand side of the page to narrow my results to those from Engineering Education. Under the Discovery menu is an option to look at by department. Since I don't see this department listed, I'll click on View More to find it. I can choose the first letter of the department name and then use the arrows to click through until I find the department I'm looking for, or I can begin typing the first few letters or the first word of the department name in the search box. Clicking on the department name will bring me to all the dissertations for that department. I can sort my results by clicking on the gear icon to the top right of the results list. Here I can sort by date and other options and change the number of results I see per page. I can also click on the Advanced Filters link located above the gear icon to filter by options, including the subject, the committee chair, and more. Remember that if you choose the option Equals, you will only see results that completely match as you've entered, including punctuation, spelling, and capitalization. To search for the name of a committee chair, choose the option Committee Chair from the drop-down box and Contain from the next. Then try a search for the individual's last name. You can also use the plus or minus icons to add more filters to narrow the results even more. When you're done adding filters, click Apply. From the results list, clicking on a title will bring you to the full record for that item. In addition to viewing all dissertations for a department, you can also conduct an advanced search. From the ETD's Community page, you can use a search box near the top of the page to search. To conduct the most effective search, get to the Advanced Search by clicking Go on an empty search box. You'll be taken to a results list of the entire community, and then you can click Show Advanced Filters. You can add multiple filters to search in the same way you did in the previous example. After you've clicked the Empty Search box, you can also use the filters on the right to narrow by Subject, Committee Chair, Date, and Degree level. You can also use a combination of browsing and searching to help you find what you need. If you have any questions about searching for ETD's in VTechWorks, email vtechworks at vt.edu.