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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 browser extension installed, you will see the following image show up on some websites where LibKey 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:

 when the article can be accessed Open Access on the web.

 when you can get the PDF from one of the databases Gould Library subscribes to.

when we do not have electronic access, but may have it physically in the library.

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  Dissertations are not peer-reviewed, and so should not be afforded the same weight as peer-reviewed articles.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.