LibGuides: Library Resources for School of Graduate Psychology & Counseling: Dissertations

General Open Access Dissertations

Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.5 million theses and dissertations.
PQDT Open With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open-access dissertations and theses free of charge from ProQuest.

OAIster This link opens in a new window Union catalog of digital resources Contains digital resources from open archive collections. Represents multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,100 contributors worldwide.

WorldCat Dissertations Search WorldCat.org and specify Dissertation in the Content field

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.

The following list of databases provide access to regional dissertations and theses. The list does not include single institution repositories.

DiVA: Academic Archive On-line DiVA portal is a finding tool and an institutional repository for research publications and student theses written at 30 universities and colleges of higher education in Scandinavia.
EthOS EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.
National ETD Portal: South African theses and dissertations Provides access to ETDs produced in South Africa.
TEL (thèses-en-ligne) French language database of dissertations and theses
Theses Canada Canadian universities participate in the program voluntarily by submitting approved theses and dissertation to Theses Canada. Library and Archives Canada (LAC) staff are happy to provide advice to Canadian universities that are establishing electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) programs and welcome new electronic participants.

Dissertations & Theses @ Andrews University This link opens in a new window Most Ph.D. dissertations, selected D.Min. dissertations, but does not include M.A. theses. 1976-present. Licensed database, requires authentication with AU username and password.

The Undergraduate Research Commons (URC) is a portal showcasing outstanding published works authored by thousands of undergraduate students.