Research Guides: Psychology: Finding Articles

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Subject Databases

APA PsycINFO
PsycINFO® database provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Psychology
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This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time.
Social Work Abstracts
The Social Work Abstracts database contains more than 45,000 records from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.

Maximum of 4 users at the same time.
Health and Medicine
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Multi-source database provides access to full text and images of many respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.
WilsonWeb OmniFile
Wilson Web OmniFile is a full text database that contains articles from approximately 2,700 publications beginning in 1994 that cover Art, Agriculture, Applied Science, Business, Education, Science, Humanities, Law, Library Science, Social Sciences, Technology, and more.

Psychology Films from Films on Demand
Films, clips, videos, and documentaries related to psychology.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, indexes and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications. It covers a range of disciplines such as science, engineering, psychology, religion, and many others.
SAGE Journals
Online access to 550+ journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, science, technology, and medicine disciplines.
Academic Onefile
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Academic OneFile includes peer-reviewed and full text articles from journals and reference sources in the subjects of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature, as well as the New York Times.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, nearly 31 million full-text articles, and more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Survey Instruments

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Information about and reviews of standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.

How to Search Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians in medical and nursing areas as well as psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.

Maximum of 1 user at the same time.

How to Search in Health and Psychosocial Instruments

Print Journals

The following journals are available in print in the Periodicals Reading Room on the first floor of the library:

Psychology and Education
Psychology Today
World

There are additional journals in the Bound Periodicals Room on the second floor of the library.

Online Journals

Union has psychology journals available online. These can be accessed by clicking the "Journals By Title or Subject" link on the library homepage. To search for a specific journal title, simply type the title of the journal in the search bar. If we have access to this journal, options for access will appear under the journal title on the results list.

You can also search for available journal titles by subject. Simply click the subject (psychology) you wish to search and journals will populate the results list alphabetically.

Some of the journals available online include:

Adolescene
American Journal of Psychology
Applied Cognitive Psychology
Behavior Therapy
Child Development