Tips
When searching in the databases, the systems default to a date sort. Change the Sorted by field to Relevance to improve your search results.
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Use the Limit Your Results and the Narrow Results By features in PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES to narrow your search results.
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Use the database Thesaurus to find the appropriate search term or terms. Each database has its own vocabulary and it may not use the terms you are using. You'll find the link at the top of the page.
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Need to find out if a journal is peer-reviewed? Check Ulrich's Periodical Directory.
Databases
(Check the Tips column for useful search information)
"The PsycINFO database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages."
(Check the Tips column for useful search information)
"PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 50 published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group."
The Elsevier ScienceDirect Psychology Collection is made up of over 100 journal titles, representing some of the most cited and enduring "classics" in psychology research.
- To view just the full-text titles, check the full-text available box on the left hand side
- In Advanced or Expert Search, you can limit your search to the titles the Library subscribes to by changing the source drop-down box to subscribed sources
Web of Science: Science Citation Index – indexes over 7.700 of the most scholarly peer reviewed journals. Each journal is indexed cover to cover with complete links to references and times cited publications in over 170 subject categories. Coverage 1994-Present
"This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles."
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
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Susan L. CheneyCiting Sources
See the Citing Sources Toolkit for information on how to properly cite your sources and how to avoid plagiarism in your papers.
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Scholarly journal: Authored by academics for an academic audience. Published by a recognized society with academic goals & missions.
Peer-reviewed journal: Articles go through an editorial review process by the author's peers, people who are considered to be experts in the same subject area. Most scholarly journals are peer-reviewed but not all.
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