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What is PsycINFO?
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PsycINFO is the premier database for all areas of Psychology and related disciplines. This database consists of nearly 2,500 journals that are psychologically relevant, archival, scholarly, peer-reviewed, and regularly published with titles, abstracts, and keywords.
Search tips:
This database provides a lot of specialized limiters on the advanced search screen, which you can access by scrolling down on the PsycINFO home page.
Below are all the categories you can use to limit a search. Some popular categories are Tests & Measures, Methodology (i.e empirical study or literature review), 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.
