Research by Subject - Psychology
Finding articles and books:
Databases and Indexes:
Any search of the psychology literature should begin with
PsycINFO.
Find out more about it at:
APA's site:
journals indexed in PsycINFO, info about the
Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms used in the database, the
classification codes assigned to each citation, and a quick reference guide to the
PsycINFO via Ebsco.
Other Psychology databases are in Databases by Subject - Psychology.
Connect to online versions of articles from database search results by 1) clicking the available link to an article (PDF or HTML) or 2) the 
button.
When there is no online access to the article search for the SOURCE in the Library catalog (that would be the JOURNAL the article is in, or the title of the book that a chapter is in.)
To see this in action, check out the video tutorial in
Find Articles and
Find Books.
Supplemental databases and indexes can be selected based on your research topic.
Select from databases by subject (hint: the ABOUT link describes exactly what each database covers and does). Some examples of the databases in other fields that are of interest to psychology researchers include:
- Login to create custom search sets of databases with the federated search tool, Find an Article (Metalib). Contact me for help, or download this cheat-sheet.
- "Federate" (search simultaneously) PsycINFO, CINAHL, ERIC, Gender Studies, MEDLINE, and many others: from PsycINFO, click the blue "Choose Databases" tab at the top of the screen, and click the boxes next to each database you want to include in the federated search of
EbscoHost databases.
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More: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text revision) or DSM-IV TR is available online through StatRef!.
- Recommended Statistics and Demographic sources include:
NIMH and the CDC
- For related guides see:
