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Psychology Resources

Subject Databases

Autism: the international journal of research and practice    NEW!
Academic/Scholarly journal which provides a major new international forum for research of direct and practical relevance to improving the quality of life for individuals with autism or autism-related disorders.

CSA Social Science Core
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts,ERIC,Sociological Abstracts,Social Services Abstracts, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS),PAIS Archive,PAIS International,Political Science Abstracts,PsycARTICLES,PsycINFO,Physical Education Index and more -- indexes the international literature in sociology, political science and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

MEDLINE       
The worlds most comprehensive source of life sciences, medicine and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains nearly 11 million records from more than 7,300 different publications dating from 1965-present. Updated weekly.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

PsycARTICLES
Full-text database with articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and selected journals from the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.

PsycINFO 1800s -        Finding peer-reviewed articles in PsycInfo
Indexes & abstracts journals and other publications in psychology. Includes "Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms."

Pub Med        PubMed Tutorial
A service of the National Library of Medicine, this database indexes articles in medicine and psychology.

Proquest Central Psychology 1994-
Provides access to full text journal articles in social science.


General Databases

Academic Search Premier- Funded by the New Jersey State Library and the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative    /uploadedImages/njki(1).gif 
Indexes journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, ethnic studies and more. Provides full-text articles from more than 3200 scholarly periodicals.

CQ Researcher (CQ Press)
Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Each report is divided into specific sections to guide research. The online database covers reports back to 1991. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. Click on "full report" to see all sections; be sure to read the overview and pro/con sections. Includes a citation generator which creates a citation for use in a works cited list.

ERIC (CSA)
Indexes & abstracts journals and other publications in education. Includes links to many full-text journal articles (EJ numbers) and 80% of research reports (ED numbers) released since 1993.

JSTOR
Full-image archival database of scholarly journals. The most current issues, 2-5 years, are not included due to publishers' restrictions.

ScienceDirect Health and Life Science Collection 1996-
Full text of over 1,000 journals – including over 100 nursing-related titles and some titles in criminal justice, education, psychology, social work and tourism.

Wilson OmniFile 1982-
Abstracts and indexing for over 4,000 periodicals in many subjects. Full-text for over 2,000 periodicals. To search the psychology section of the database, click on the arrow to the right of the Subject Area box and select "Social Sciences.”


Resource Guide: Psychology
A guide to web sites & print resources available in the S. Mary Joseph Cunningham Library.


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