The databases below are recommended by the Research Librarian for Psychology.
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APA PsycInfo provides access to abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is provides peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, and contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s.
APA PsycInfo is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
APA PsycArticles provides access to full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each APA journal.
Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycArticles is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.
Search for articles from a very large but selective list of high-impact research journals. Provides complete reference list for covered journals, robust citation tracing tools and research metrics. Includes selected book chapters and conference proceedings.
OneSearch
0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Searching the library catalog OneSearch for peer-reviewed articles
2:27 - Searching using (*) asterisk truncation operator
3:18 - Searching using ("") quotation marks operator
4:17 - Adding more search filters (Subject, publication date)
5:14 - Confirming credibility of an article
6:00 - Article's record (Emailing and saving article, citation generator tool)
7:00 - Don't pay for an article, get it free with the library (ILL)
13:26 - View Articles in OneSearch
PsycInfo
7:45 - Introduction to PsycInfo
8:30 - Searching for articles in PsycInfo (filters, tools, and citations)
11:39 - Search for empirical studies in PsycInfo
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