LibGuides: Psychology Guide: Home

Key Resources

PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Includes PsycINFO, covering historical psychological material from 1900s-present, and PsycARTICLES, including searchable full-text from about 80 publications.

Psychiatry Online This link opens in a new window
Includes full text of DSM Manual of Mental Disorders and American Psychiatric Assn. books and journals.

SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
150+ full-text journals for Psychology. To limit searches, select "Psychology" from the left column.

ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Includes subjects such as human development, learning, psychiatry, and more. Click the link to search all of ProQuest, or select one of the following boxes to narrow the search results: Health & Medicine; Social Sciences; Science & Technology.

PsycPORT offers popular press stories about psychology, mental health, human behavior and more.

Starting Your Research

For a broad overview of topics related to psychology, try these reference works:

Credo Reference (online)
Over 100 fully indexed and searchable reference sources, about 20 of which are specific to psychology and related fields.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
2nd edition, 2015.
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
2nd edition, 2012.
Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology
(Reference Section, Main Floor) 158.03 E56s

To locate specific article references, try the following:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This database is part of the EBSCO system, and like ProQuest's Research Library database and its associated modules, Academic Search Premier is multi-disciplinary, and therefore a good place to get started with your research. There are links to the full text of many of the articles indexed.

Google Scholar
Remote users: Use any Google Scholar link from a library page.. Once you log in and search, you see Full-Text@Gutman Library links to full-text content. No set-up required!
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A multidisciplinary collection of scholarly books, articles, and conference papers from a wide range of subject areas. It can be a good starting place for researching a paper, but it is not comprehensive enough to be the only place you look.

PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window Find full-text journal articles in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, and more.

PsycBITE
Psychological database for brain impairment treatment efficacy (open access).
PubMed

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is Jefferson Libraries’ broadest literature database for nursing, life and health sciences. Scopus searches citations and abstracts of over 44,000 sources across a broad spectrum of sciences, medicine, social sciences and technology, journals, books, conference papers, and world patent literature. Alerts and individual profiles are available. Since 1996, Scopus has indexed the citations and references for each document, making it possible to track citations to individual documents and authors. A suite of article, journal and author metrics are available to analyze research impact.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
This collection of over 550 journal titles in full text includes the following collections: Communication & Media Studies Collection, Criminology Collection, Politics & International Relations Collection, Sociology Collection, Education Collection, Psychology Collection, Nursing & Public Health Collection, Management & Organization Studies Collection, Materials Science & Engineering Collection, Urban Studies & Planning Collection.

Cochrane
Best single source of reliable evidence about the effects of health care.
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. The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - evidence based systematic reviews prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration which provide high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni replaced LexisNexis Academic. It features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

PsycBITE
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Open Access database that catalogues studies of cognitive, behavioural and other treatments for psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI). These studies are rated for their methodological quality, evaluating various aspects of scientific rigour.

ERIC: Education Resources Information Center (.gov) This link opens in a new window
Free version of ERIC provided by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. Bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
SpringerLink offers over 1,200 journals in full text. In addition to biomedical journals, subjects include mathematics, linguistics, material sciences, computer science, law and many other fields.