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Quick Guide to PsyInfo

Quick Guide for PsycInfo

Key reference sources

Some dictionaries, included in the Library and useful to you in your studies. Other dictionaries are available, electronically via the Oxford Reference Collection at: Oxford reference online

A Student's Dictionary of Psychology by Nicky Hayes; Peter Stratton
ISBN: 9781444176728
Publication Date: 2012-12-01
Apa Dictionary of Clinical Psychology by Gary R. VandenBos (Editor)
ISBN: 9781433812071
Publication Date: 2012-08-13

Key Databases

If you're looking for journal articles, these are some of the key databases you'll need. You can see the full list of databases on our Database page.

PsycINFO
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The key database for psychology and related subjects. Contains references and abstracts for scholarly journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations, some dating back to the 1600s. The full-text is available for some journal articles. Where there is no full-text link, click on the Full Text Finder link to check for full-text.

Provided by the American Psychological Association’s (APA). The largest database of peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Covers related subjects including medicine, law, neuroscience, business, human resource management, nursing, forensics, criminology, engineering, sociology and gerontology. Includes about 2500 journals, in many languages, from 1800s to present (including all articles from PsycARTICLES).
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
CINAHL provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, health education and other related subject areas.

CINAHL content includes full text for more than 760 journals and it indexes more than 4,900 journals. CINAHL Subject Headings follow the structure of the Medical Subject Headings, or MeSH, used by the National Library of Medicine. This structure has been used to develop 14,382 subject headings which reflect the terminology used by midwifery, nursing and allied health professionals.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
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MEDLINE is the world's best-known medicine and clinical science database, covering literature from around the world since 1946. It has a comprehensive set of controlled vocabulary called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms). MEDLINE is also available free on the web as PubMed.

The database contains more than 21.6 million records from 5,582 selected publications covering biomedicine and health from 1950 to the present. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE provides information from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, as well as coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
ERIC
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This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. You may not be able to access the full text of all of the results you find in ERIC.
Web of Science Core Collection
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Provides references, and in many cases abstracts, for peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Includes the Science Citation Index Expanded (1970-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1970-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Also provides citation data and references to books and conference papers. Click on the Full Text Finder links to check for full-text.
Scopus
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.