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PSYC 399: Capstone Seminar

Professors Sharon Akimoto, Sarah Meerts, and Julia Strand - Fall 2024

Core Psychology Article Databases

Get LibKey Nomad!

When you have LibKey Nomad browser extension installed, you will see the following image show up on some websites where LibKey Nomad is searching Gould Library's collections for access to the articles:

When searching in Google Scholar, PubMed, Wikipedia, or other online sources, you may see the following icons show up alongside the article references. This is what they mean:

 will bring you directly to the article online

 will provide the pdf to the article

will send you back to Catalyst, to check if it is available in either print format or another electronic database. If it is not available, you can easily request it via ILL.

Other subject databases in related fields

Many psychology topics are interdisciplinary in nature, so you may need to find literature from other fields.  Below are some of the more frequently used databases in some other fields. 

Here are a few databases to get you started, but be sure to look at the subject guides for more information and suggestions on ways to search in that subject.

A note on dissertations

You may run in to references to doctoral theses in PsycINFO.  Dissertations are not peer-reviewed, and so should not be afforded the same weight as peer-reviewed articles.  However, the literature searches in some theses can be gold mines in providing background information and pointers to other articles on that same topic.