Databases for psychologists

Subject specific

1 DATABASES FROM the APA

1.1 PsycBOOKS

o   a full-text database of books and chapters

o   produced by the American Psychological Association.

o   psychology

o   (1950–2002)

1.2 PsycINFO

The major, most comprehensive database

o    Content:  psychology and psychological aspects ofrelated disciplines. including psychiatry, nursing, business, education, socialscience, neuroscience, law, medicine, social work, medicine,psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics

o    Coverage: journalarticles, book chapters, dissertations and technical reports

o   Date range:  (1806-present)

o    Updates: monthly

o    producedby the American Psychological Association

1.3 PsycArticles

o    Content:  general psychology andspecialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

o    Coverage: journalarticles

o   Date range:  (1988-present)

o    Updates:

o    publishedby the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational PublishingFoundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe PublishingGroup

1.4 PsycCritiques

o    Content:  relevantto psychology

o    Coverage: Reviews of books, films and software

o   Date range:  (1988-present)

o    Updates:

o    producedby the American Psychological Association

1.5PsycTests (APA)

psychological tests and measures as well as arich source of structured information about the tests

1.6 PsycBITE 

evidence-based empirical reports on the effectiveness ofnon-pharmacological interventions for the psychological consequences ofacquired brain impairment.

·        1.7 PsycEXTRA

A grey literature database, is a companion to the scholarlyPsycINFO database. Most of the content was written for professionals anddisseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals (newsletters, magazines,newspapers et al.,)

1.8  PsycTHERAPY 

is a database of streaming psychotherapydemonstrations featuring some of the most renowned therapists in North Americaworking with participants on a host of therapeutic topics. PsycTHERAPY providesover 300 hours of video content. More than 200 different topics and 65therapeutic approaches, demonstrated by 95 therapists, and covered throughouthundreds of filmed therapy demonstrations.

2.1Scopus

alarge multidisciplinary database , abstracting database

o    Content:  Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics andEngineering ; Life and Health Sciences ; Social Sciences, Psychology andEconomics ; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

o    Coverage: reviewed journals, quality web resources and patents, Articles, books, reports, and patents

o   Date range:  1995-present.

o    Updates:

o    NOTES:  Includes citationfeatures and tools to analyze authors and journals; set up citation alterts;track authors and analyse journal performance

2.2 Web of Science  (Web ofKnowledge)

a large multidisciplinary database

o    Content:  science,social science, engineering, and art & humanities

o    Coverage: Bibliographicinformation and cited references

o   Date range:  1900 for the Sciences, 1956 forSocial Sciences and 1975 for Arts & Humanities.

o    Updates: weekly

o    NOTES:  ScienceCitation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index (through the Web of Science) 

o    Good for contextualizing research.

2.3 Google Scholar  

o    Content:  scholarly literature from avariety of disciplines

o    Coverage: peer-reviewedjournal articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.

o    Date range:  

o    Updates:

o    Good for finding psychology articles, thoughhistorical coverage weaker than PsycINFO

2.4ScienceDirect

o    Content:  Informationsource for scientific, technical, and medical research, a broad range ofsubjects iin the social sciences and humanities, health sciences, lifesciences, and physical sciences and engineering

o    Coverage: peer-reviewedjournal articles, books, and reference works.

o    Date range:  (1950-present)

o    Updates:

o    producedby the publisher Elsevier. Subsidiary publishers include Academic Press, Cell Press,Pergamon, Mosby, and Saunders journals.

2.5 Wiley Online Library     

WileyOnline Library.

o   Fulltext scientificelectronic journals published by Wiley

o   Journals articles andthousands of e-books (including some encyclopaedias) in almost all subjects.

3.1              PubMed/Medline

PubMed is the free web tool to search Medlinecontents

the largest biomedical database

o    Content:  psychiatry, biological psychology andbrain sciences. covers the fields of medicine, pre-clinicalsciences including clinical psychology.        

o    Coverage: indexes journals

o    Date range:  (

o    Updates:

o    fromthe National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the US NationalLibrary of Medicine (NLM). Medline is the premier database for journal articlesin the health sciences. For further information see the Database Guide toPubMed.

Contains internationalliterature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and thebiological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as theyrelate to medicine and health care.

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3.2              Embase

an internationalpharmacological and biomedical database indexing medical and drug informationfrom 70 countries.

the Europeanequivalent of Medline which indexes journals

Comprehensivepharmacological and biomedical database

drug information

3.3              PILOTS Database  

Index to the literature on post-traumatic stress disorder.

(1871-present)

for articles on post-traumatic stress disorderand other mental-health consequences of traumatic events.

3.4              Cochrane Library 

·        provide access tosystematic reviews on a wide range of topics related to health care.

• evidence-based clinical     practice

·        A source of up-to-date information on the effects ofinterventions in health care

·         4.1  SociologicalAbstracts 

Bibliographic references and abstracts

abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews

drawn from over 1,700 serials publications

covers sociologyand related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences

·        SocialWork Abstracts
Citations and abstracts of articles

·        5.1 EducationFull-Text
Citations, abstracts, and full text articles in education periodicals and otherpublications.

• Education Full     Text

Indexes and abstracts articles ofEnglish-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstractingcoverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.

·        5.2 ERIC(Educational ResourcesInformation Center)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, indexes articles, governmentdocuments, dissertations, etc., in education.

• British Education Index and ERIC, for information in the field of     education

For topics that overlap with education, ERIC canbe helpful.

  (1966-present)

References journal articles and unpublished documents on educational theory andpractice. Indexes research on education policy and practice in developmentcontexts.

·        5.3 EducationResearch Complete
Offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text educationjournals.

6.1  MentalMeasurements Yearbook
Descriptions and critical reviews and of over 2,000 psychological tests andmeasures.

A comprehensive guide to over 3,000contemporary testing instruments

"Mental MeasurementsYearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information aboutand reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educationalskills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as includedin the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks."

Contains information and reviews of all english language standardized test.

Covers educational skills, vocationalaptitude, psychology and.personality, aptitude, neuropsychology, achievement and intelligence,etc."

6.2   HaPI(Health and Psychosocial Instruments).

A databasedesign to help identify measurement tests used in health, psychosocialsciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science;provides sources, abstract, and reviewer(s) when applicable.

7 Psychoanalysis

7.1 PEP-Web(Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing)

Full text from thearchive of psychoanalytic literature (books and journals)

1871 - 2006

a digital archive of many major works of psychoanalysis. Itincludes the complete works of Sigmund Freud, backfiles

8 COGNITION

·        8.1 Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)

Use this database for language-related issues in psychology.

8.2 CogNet

Includes full-text ofbooks and  other resources.

Use the CogNet Library to browse journals and books from MIT Pressin the cognitive sciences.

A collection ofreference works, journals, books and conference proceedings.

• ABI/INform Complete
      Access references and full text articles from leading business databases     and newspapers published since 1971. It is offered on the proquest site     where you can cross search it with other business databases including     Asian Business, Proquest entrepreneurship.

• Business Source Complete  
      Leading business research database which provides access to the text of     several thousand journals covering business, management, human resources,     finance and market research topics. Find articles on the media industry.

• Emerald 
  is     a database of references to articles taken from around 450 top management     and business journals. The coverage is international but with a UK bias.     The database covers the years from 1989 onwards and is updated monthly.

 Business Source Premier via Ebsco (1922 to present)
One of the largest databases covering business, industry and management. Thisis an excellent source organisational psychology and coaching psychology.  

·        Applied Social Sciences Index andAbstracts

·        Humanities and Social Sciences IndexRetrospective

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IBSS (International Bibliography ofthe Social Sciences

   the contents of books and journals

• Content: broad range of     social science topics, particularly strong on Anthropology, Economics,     Politics & Sociology. Abstracts and references to journal articles,     book reviews and chapters from edited books.

• Date     range:     1951 to present

• Updates: weekly

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International Encyclopedia of Social and BehavorialSciences

ProQuest Research Library   (Michigan University )

Indexes over2,300 journals and magazines covering all fields and topics, academic andpopular, beginning as early as 1971.

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