LibGuides: .Gerontology Subject Guide: Articles

Top Gerontology Databases - Psychology & Sociology

Psychology & Sociology Databases
Use this link to search across multiple databases in psychology and sociology at once. It includes PsycINFO, Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection, Family Studies Abstract, and SocINDEX.

PsycINFO
Indexes 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.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Indexes 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.
SocINDEX
SocINDEX features millions of records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database that provides citations and full-text for articles published in nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for academic research including journal articles, books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and other scholarly material.

Top Gerontology Databases - Health & Medicine

Medline (EBSCO)
Created and maintained by the National Library of Medicine, this database indexes and provides abstracts for articles published in more than 4,800 current biomedical journals. Covers clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care administration, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

MedlinePlus
Consumer-oriented health information on a variety of topics

PubMed Central
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. All the articles in PMC are free (sometimes on a delayed basis). Some journals go beyond free, to Open Access. Also has the author manuscripts of articles published by NIH-funded researchers in various non-PMC journals. Similar manuscripts from researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust are available as well.
Nursing & Allied Health Collection
Offers researchers looking for answers to nursing or allied health questions millions of articles found in over 1,100 journals. Provides full-text coverage of many of the titles cited in CINAHL.
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database that provides citations and full-text for articles published in nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for academic research including journal articles, books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and other scholarly material.

How to Find Articles Listed on a Reference Page--Journal Title List

This printable handout shows you How to Find An Article Listed on a Reference Page

Do you have an article citation from a reference page? If you already have the title, the easiest way to quickly check for WOU access is to use our portal to Google Scholar. Type in the full title of the article and use the Find It @ WOU button to see if the library has access.

Didn't find it in Google Scholar? You can search for the article using the journal title, volume/issue, and page number: