Top Psychology Databases
These are the major databases for psychology research.
- PsycINFOIndexes and summarizes more than 2 million scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. 97 percent of the material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
- PsycARTICLESThis database contains the full-text of more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals, 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from allied organizations. Included are all articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical psychology research.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences CollectionIndexes and provides full-text for 575 publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
- Psychology CollectionStudents, psychologists, counselors, counselees, behavioral scientists, and other researchers will glean relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in over 3.1 million articles. Powered by InfoTrac, Psychology Collection brings together information found in nearly 500 journals, with a strong emphasis on fulltext titles cited in PsycINFO.
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Other Databases To Try
These databases may also be useful for your psychology research.
- SpringerLINK Archive - Humanities, Social Sciences and LawProvides online full-text access to selected titles to which the library subscribes.
- PrimateLitIndexes scientific literature on nonhuman primates (prosimians, monkeys and apes). The database covers all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many topics, including behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography.
- Other Databases @ WOUThis link takes you to the library's main article databases page. Consider other databases for information related to Psychology.
PsycINFO Tutorial
Watch this brief video tutorial to learn how to use PsycINFO. For the best display, click the Full Screen option in the lower right of the screen once you start the video:
- PsycINFO Tutorial
- PsycINFO Tutorial with Captions (5 mins)"CC" button is in the lower right corner
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