Research Guides: Education Research: Dissertations & Other Grey Literature

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A major database of international Masters and PhD theses. Full text content available since 1997 for many titles.

For more information about finding dissertations and theses, please refer to the Finding Theses and Dissertations Guide.

See All Types of Information for more access to grey literature.

Use Google commands to develop sophisticated search strategies:

Quotation marks "around phrases"

filetype: to search for a particular type of file

filetype:pdf "university rankings"

Intitle: forces the next term or phrase into the title of results

intitle:"information literacy" presentation 2016

intitle:"information literacy" "systematic review"

intitle:teachers "information literacy"

Add words describing the CREATOR of the material:

"information literacy" teachers site:.ca

Add words describing the FORMAT and TYPE of the material:

teachers "information literacy" filetype:pdf "white paper"

Add the OR operator to include synonyms:

"information literacy" OR "media literacy" teachers site:.ca filetype:pdf research

Use the Custom Google Search options on the Library's Government Information Guide to find government & organization information.

Queen's Graduate Projects, Theses, and Dissertations are available via QSpace, our Institutional Repository. Projects, Theses, and Dissertations completed in the Faculty of Education are also listed in the Faculty of Education QSpace Community.

EdArXiv Preprints
A preprint server for the Education research community. Part of the OSF Preprints service and a product of the Center for Open Science. Full draft research papers shared publicly before the peer review process.
AERA Online Paper Repository

Canadian Association for Graduate Studies. Annual statistical reports on the state of graduate education in Canada are openly available from this organization.

Edge, J., & Munro, D. (2015). Inside and Outside the Academy: Valuing and Preparing PhDs for Careers. Prepared for The Conference Board of Canada.

Archambault, E, Bergeron, S., Bertrand, F., Campbell, D., Caruso, J., & Kishchuk. (May, 2006). Science-Metrix Final Report: Environmental Scan for SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship Program. Prepared for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).