LibGuides: Psychology: Main Databases for Psychology

Main Databases for Psychology

The following databases are geared towards psychology. Here you will find articles, white papers, dissertations, and more in the discipline of Psychology.

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Research to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
n the related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology, psychiatry and communications. Includes journals and dissertations from 1967 to the present in one database, and book chapters and books from 1987 to the present in a second database.The databases are in English and the journals covered are in 30 languages from over 45 countries. The databases provide citations, content summaries (for all but the dissertations), and indexing using terms from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. Book records also contain the book's table of contents.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Additional Databases

Alexander Street This link opens in a new window
A collection of videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Educational Resources Information Center. Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education research and practice.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Unlimited access to more than 12,000 videos and 100,000 segments for topics in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics and Health & Medicine to name a few. The collections are dynamic, so any new videos acquired are added to the resource automatically. Public performance rights are also included.

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Tips on PsycINFO

Quick Reference Guide for APA PsycINFO
This quick reference guide will demonstrate how to search APA PsycInfo in Advanced Search mode. APA PsycInfo is an electronic bibliographic database that provides abstracts and citations for scholarly literature in the behavioral and social sciences. It contains a rich, interdisciplinary backfile that includes 4.8 million records.
APA PsycINFO Users Guide
Basic and Advanced tips on better searching in PsycINFO.

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