Databases/Article Indexes for Psychology


Red Star indicates highly recommended databases for the subject area

 
AccessScience
Dates vary.
A collection of Reference e-books in the sciences, including The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 9th edition online.
 
Ageline
1978-current

Open Access
AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences.
 
Annual Reviews
Dates vary
Annual Reviews volumes, published each year in approximately 30 focused disciplines within the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences, are thorough and timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists and academicians.
 
Blackwell Synergy
1997-current
The Blackwell Publishing Full Collection comprises 803 journals from across Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences collections.
 
Provides information on measurement instruments (tests, questionnaires, etc.)
 
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of major scholarly sources in the humanities and social sciences, as well as numerous lesser-known specialized magazines.
 
Mental Measurements Yearbook
1985-current

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Mental Measurements Yearbook is a major resource for descriptive information about and critical reviews of standardized tests- educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence.
 
Nature offers key journals in Chemistry, Clinical Practice and Research, Earth and Environment, Life Science, and Physics.
 
NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE includes over 80 fully searchable ebooks in the topics of Clinical Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering.
 
The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.
Recommended resource
PsycBooks
1806 - present
a full-text database of over 1100 books and chapters in the American Psychological Associations array of electronic ebooks.
Recommended resource
full-text reviews of books, popular films, videos, and software relevant to psychology. Weekly releases may also include a review of a popular first-run film or a comparative review of several current trade books. Reviews focus on current media, with most being from the current year.
Recommended resource
PsycINFO
1872-current
Indexes and abstracts books, dissertations and journal articles in the psychological and behavioral sciences, including the creative arts therapies.
 
ScienceDirect
1995-current
ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas.
Recommended resource
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI)
1980-current

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The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
 
Social Sciences Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

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Full Text access to artcles indexed in the Social Sciences Index. Indexing begins at 1982, Abstracting begins at 1984, and fulltext coverage begins in 1994.
 
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
 
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts the literature in socology (and related disciplines) from an international selection of journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.
 
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.

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