Databases for Psychology
Best Bets
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| PsycINFO |
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles (over 2,500 journals), book chapters, books, and |
1887-present |
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| PsycArticles |
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. |
1894-present |
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| PubMed |
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information from more than 5,200 journals in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. |
1950-present |
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| Mental Measurements Yearbook |
Produced by the Buros Institute, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. |
Volume 9 (1986)-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology |
The purpose of this handbook is to present the types of issues that industrial and organizational psychologists study, the questions they pursue, the research they conduct, and the interventions th |
2011 |
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| Counseling and Therapy in Video |
Provides access to more than 400 hours (330 videos) of actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues a |
Current |
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| Family and Society Studies Worldwide |
Provides 1 million bibliographic records drawn from over a thousand professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources, many of which are ind |
1970-present |
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| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
Provides full text access to more than 540 scholarly journals and citations with abstracts to 800 other magazines and health care publications. |
1984-present |
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| ScienceDirect |
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection (indexing for 1,300 more). |
1960s-present |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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Even More
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
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