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Core Psychology Article Databases
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The premier search tool for all areas of psychology and related disciplines. Covers 1840 - current.
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PubMed Central This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
The US National Institutes of Health provide this free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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Medical Search Headings (MeSH)MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed. Search this thesaurus to identify terminology you should use when searching PubMed and MEDLINE.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
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.
Search Tips
PsycINFO provides a lot of specialized limiters on the advanced search screen: You can limit results based Tests & Measures, Methodology (empirical study or literature review, for example), and Population.
Use a different row for each different concept. Add synonyms for concepts in a box separated by the word OR (eg: college OR university).
If you need help coming up with search terms, check out the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. The link is in the upper left corner.
Selected Reference Works
Begin your research with reference works to find background information, definitions, locate statistics and facts, and build a bibliography.
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Encyclopedia of Psychology
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Call Number: Ref BF31 .E52 2000ISBN: 1557981876Publication Date: 2000-03-16Availability and more information from Catalyst...
This eight-volume encyclopedia is international in scope and provides comprehensive coverage of theory, research, and practice in the field of psychology. -
The International Dictionary of Psychology
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Call Number: Ref BF31 .S83 1996ISBN: 0824525094Publication Date: 1996-02-25Availability and more information from Catalyst...
This dictionary provides brief definitions for terms used in psychology as well as terms from neurophysiology, sociobiology, linguistics, anthropology, and statistics. The appendix includes anatomical diagrams of the human brain. -
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
Call Number: Ref BF311 .M556 1999Availability and more information from Catalyst...
MITECS is divided into six sections: philosophy; psychology; neurosciences; computational intelligence; linguistics and language; and culture, cognition, and evolution. -
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Online)
This online encyclopedia explores all areas of the discipline in its focused entries on a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and other related areas of neuroscience.
