Psychology

Tools for Graduate Students

This guide is designed to facilitate access to various types of information in psychology and related areas.

About this Page

This page features tools & resources that we hope will help you manage your work as graduate students at Boston College. Please see our contact information on the right if you would like to set up an individual appointment.

Free Software

Boston College has select free software that can be downloaded including: SPSS and Stata.

Find Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses Full Text
Citations and abstracts to more than 2 million dissertations and masters theses in all fields from 1861 to the present. The full text of dissertations published since the mid-1990s are also available for download. Guide: http://proquest.libguides.com/pqdt
Center for Research Libraries Dissertations
BC community members can access the CRL collection of dissertations and theses. They have strength in the area of older (19th-early 20th century) international works. You can request print works via Interlibrary Loan. CRL also has a program digitize them and will also consider purchase of theses and dissertations not in their collection. Guide: http://www.crl.edu/collections/topics/dissertations

HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
This collection has the full text of many older theses and dissertations. There is no way to search just dissertations and theses, but if you have the author and title information, you may be able to find the full text here.

Can't find what you need at Boston College?

Remember, if you can't find material that you need at Boston College, you can always:

request a book or article through our free interlibrary loan service.
borrow and use materials at one of the Boston Library Consortium institutions.
recommend that the Social Work Library purchase a book by sending us an e-mail at swlib@bc.edu