Guides: Psychology: Find Articles

Find Scholarly Journals in Psychology, Science, and Medical Databases

PsycInfo & PsycArticles (ProQuest)
Search journal articles, books, and dissertations in psychology and related fields. Full text and indexed records. Published by the American Psychological Association. 1806-present.
PubMed
Indexes scholarly articles in biomedicine, health, dentistry, nursing, and other life sciences. Includes MEDLINE plus additional citations, some full-text. Coverage: 1966 – present.
Science Direct College Edition
Provides citations, abstracts and full text (1995-present) for over 1100 journals in the Health & Life Sciences Collection. Provides citations and abstracts for all other Elsevier Science Direct journals.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
An open access research platform used to share early-stage research, evolve ideas, measure results, and connect scholars around the world, representing disciplines including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
Taylor and Francis Social Science and Humanities Library
Over 1,500 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities areas.

Peer-Reviewed Empirical Articles - Searching PsycInfo
This 3 minute video will explain how to identify high quality original research in the PsycInfo database.
How and Why to Use the APA Thesaurus When Searching PsycInfo
This time-saving 4 minute video shows how to identify specific terminology in the field and build a relevant search.
Science Direct: Performing an Advanced Search
This 3 minute video shows you helpful search tips.

Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
An excellent starting point for research across a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals. This database is sourced with PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
JSTOR
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.
Project Muse
Full text access is available to over 380 journals and over 13,000 scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage from 1993 - present.

Google Scholar
Online search engine that indexes articles, theses, books, abstracts, conference proceedings and court opinions; from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Although this is a large index, once you have located a citation, you may have to access the complete article using library databases.