Research Guides: PSYC 100: Gazing into the Black Mirror: Key Sources in Psychology

Core Psychology Article Databases

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The premier search tool for all areas of psychology and related disciplines. Covers 1840 - current.
Note: There are fewer than 115 records from earlier than 1894.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
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The US National Institutes of Health provide this free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Medical Search Headings (MeSH)
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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A vast index of literature from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also offers cited reference searching to see who has cited a particular document. 1898 - current.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Use Google's special academic search to locate scholarly articles from across disciplines. On campus, the preferences are set to indicate the Library's full-text access to what you find (links on the right). Use the "cited by" link to see who has cited a particular work you're interested in.

Finding Books

Catalyst

The Gould Library has rich collections of books, journals, government documents, and other resources. You may access them via Catalyst, the online catalog that is shared by Carleton and St. Olaf. You may search Catalyst by title, author, subject, or word.