LibGuides: Psychology: Journals and Databases

APA PsycInfo

You'll find many articles you'll need for your studies in Library Search. If you need more in-depth research, you will find the key psychology databases on this page below very useful.

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
This database is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in APA PsycINFO® are peer-reviewed.

Multidisciplinary databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to a collection of databases. The default search is of the Web of Science Core Collection, which includes the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index and Emerging Sources Citation Index. This enables you to search scholarly journals, books and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the citation network.
By clicking on the drop-down menu next to ‘Search in:’ you can choose to search other databases: BIOSIS Citation Index (1969-2008), KCI-Korean Journal Database, Medline, Preprint Citation Index and SciELO Citation Index.
SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary abstract and database curated by subject matter experts. Scopus is also a citation index, which means that the records in the database contain information on citations made in that publication and it links that information so you can identify which publications have cited that one, and how many times a publication has been cited.

Health databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Cinahl Complete with Full Text, the authoritative bibliographic database for nursing and allied health, provides full text for 1350 journals. alternative link
Coverage is from 1937 onwards and also includes books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings and standards of practice.Cross search available with all EBSCO databases, select Choose Databases and tick those you wish to add to your search.
MEDLINE (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and pre-clinical sciences.
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Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR.
Cross search available with all EBSCO databases, select Choose Databases and tick those you wish to add to your search.
MEDLINE (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and pre-clinical sciences.
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a key Allied Health database, with coverage from the 1950's on. It's content covers all Health subjects and some of the content is Open Access and free to view.
PubMed is a search tool to access citations, abstracts and links to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers. Including over 15 million citations from journals and covers 4,800 biomedical science journals.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
PMC contains links to nearly 2 million articles and all are peer reviewed and free to view.

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PubMed Central (PMC) is produced by the National Library of Medicine and provides biomedical and life sciences information. The archive also contains links to other scientific databases and book reviews.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
This database covers sport and related disciplines. It is useful for such subjects as injury management and rehabilitation from injury. It includes both primary and secondary research, peer-review articles and other research methodologies.
It has over 1,500,000 records, including journal articles, books, dissertations and theses. In some cases coverage goes back to 1939.
An increasing percentage of the material is full text.
Cross search available with all EBSCO databases, select Choose Databases and tick those you wish to add to your search.

Language and linguistic behaviour databases

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
An index of articles from over 2,000 international journal publications.
The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography contains citations of critical works on literature, langauge, linguistics and folklore. It also covers natural and inverted languages.
Includes references to journal articles, books, chapters in books, and abstracts for some dissertations. (There are no abstracts available for records in this database.)
Communication Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Communication Abstracts is a comprehensive source of information about communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources.

Social science databases

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts for health, social services, psychology, criminology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Currently contains over 312,000 records from 650 journals in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. Coverage is from 1987 onwards. Updated monthly, with more than 1500 records added per update.
ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. Featured databases include IBSS, PAIS and Sociological Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including deep indexing and full text from over 1000 important social science journals.
LGBT magazine archive This link opens in a new window
This magazine archive will offer backfiles of many of the key periodicals the LGBT field. Titles will include The Advocate , Gay Times and Gay News and The Pink Paper
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (SWA) is an international abstracting service designed to meet the information needs of all those working, teaching, studying or researching into any of the main areas of women's studies. Provides abstracts for journal articles and books.
Theoretical and empirical materials are abstracted with a focus on the following topic areas: education, employment, women in the family and community, medicine and health, female sex and gender role socialisation, social policy, social psychology of women, female culture, media treatment of women, biography, literary criticism, historical studies. Coverage is international from 1995.

Education databases

British Education Index This link opens in a new window
Information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Particular strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs.
Content is included from over 250 English language periodicals published in the British Isles and in certain internationally published periodicals. Subject coverage includes : Cognitive development,Computer assisted learning, Curriculum, Educational policy,Educational psychology,Educational technology, Language acquisition, Training,Management in education, Multicultural education, Physical education, Science education, Special educational needs, Teacher education, Vocational education.
Education databases from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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Search five education databases together covering all aspects of education. Contains 5 databases: Australian Education Index ; Education database ; ERIC search ; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) ; Sports Medicine and Education Index
Educational Research Abstracts Online This link opens in a new window
ERA is a comprehensive database comprising specially selected high-quality abstracts which cover the current international research in education. ERA includes links to the full-text online versions of articles where possible.
Coverage includes: Online access to seven leading international abstracting journals, plus two online only sections and a fully comprehensive general research file Sophisticated search facilities, including a controlled keyword list. Hypertext linking to full-text articles Abstracts linked by CrossRef, a collaborative reference linking service. Searches can be conducted by a choice of criteria and full search histories are stored. ERA is primarily aimed at researchers, academics, and students studying all fields of education but is also valuable to practitioners in the discipline. Coverage is broad ranging and abstracts are categorised into the following files: Child Development, Educational Management, Educational Technology, Health Education, Higher Education, Multicultural Education, Sociology of Education, Special Needs and Technical Education and Training. In addition, the 'General' file comprises abstracts from international educational which falls outside of these.

Business and marketing databases

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Full text coverage of trade and academic journals from all business disciplines, including marketing, management, finance and economics.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
Access to subscribed journals and eBooks published by Emerald. Subject coverage: business, management, marketing, retailing, economics, education, engineering and library and information science.