Research and Course Guides: Psychology: Dissertations & Gray Literature

Dissertations & Theses Full Text

Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
If PsycINFO uncovers a dissertation that might be relevant to your research, this database may provide the PDF of that thesis. The full text documents range back to the early-to-mid-90s, depending on the granting university. Just search for the author or title of the document you're looking for.

If you are topic-searching with keywords in this database, it is almost always necessary to use the drop-down menu to the right to limit your search terms to "Anywhere except full text – ALL" and to just search the citation and abstract -- not search the full text.

If the PDF of the dissertation you want to view is not available in the database, you may request it through InterLibrary Loan.

Dissertations for Meta-Analyses

In order to do an exhaustive meta-analysis, sometimes graduate students are looking for dissertations and theses that are not included in the ProQuest database. Some likely sources for these in English are:

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
The NDLTD Union Catalog is "a collaborative effort of the NDLTD, OCLC, VTLS, and Scirus, containing more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations."
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Free full-text access to theses and dissertations from over 1100 Universities around the world
National Library of Australia’s Trove
Must search for topic and limit to theses. Includes digitized PhD and Masters theses produced at Australian Universities
Theses Canada Portal
Searches AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for the full text electronic versions of numerous Canadian theses and dissertations
DART - Europe e-Theses Portal
Access to digitized theses from European universities. You can limit by language and country.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Click on Advanced Search.
Search "thesis" as Material Type (in the pull-down menu) and your topic as keyword(s). This will bring up Masters and Doctoral theses. Some will link to URLs of available digital versions and some can be InterLibrary Loaned.

Clemson Theses and Dissertations

Clemson Open Electronic Theses & Dissertations
PDFs of all theses and dissertations completed at Clemson University from 2006 to the present; many older theses and dissertations have also been digitized and added to this collection.

Other "Grey Literature" Sites

Grey literature is work that falls outside of the ordinary publication stream (reports, proceedings, dissertations, preprints).

BASE
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 140 million documents from more than 6,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).
Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
OpenGrey
System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, is your open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe.
MetaLIb
MetaLib is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online.
ADVANCE
more...less...
A social sciences preprints service offered by Sage in partnership with Figshare