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Best Bet Psychology Databases

PsycINFO 1887-Current
Nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. Produced by the American Psychological Assocation.

PsycINFO Video Transcript [PDF]
APA PsycNET and Google Scholar: Quick Start (.docx)
One-page overview of using APA PsycNET to search for psychology articles, including Cited By information, and using Google Scholar to find full text. See also our fuller illustrated guide (next link; .pptx).
APA PsycNET and Google Scholar (illustrated step-by-step guide; .pptx)
PowerPoint illustrating how to find psychology articles in the free APA PsycNET interface, which shows how many times articles have been cited, and then track down those articles in Google Scholar.

AgeLine
Focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. Includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy.
ERIC (EBSCO)
Best known as an education database; includes research on educational psychology and school psychology. Journal articles, reports, conference papers and other materials.

[Note: Nearly all of the articles in these journals are indexed in PsycINFO, which may be a better place to start your search.]

PsycARTICLES
The full text of 116 peer-reviewed psychology journals published by the American Psychological Assocation, the Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group, and APA's Educational Publishing Foundation.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)
Over 530 full-text psychology journals. Strong coverage in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.
Psychology (Gale OneFile)
Full text of hundreds of scholarly and popular psychology journals and magazines.

JSTOR Psychology Journals
Full text of 35 psychology journals from their beginnings up to a moving wall of a few years ago.

BF	Psychology
BF 173-175.5	Psychoanalysis
BF 176-176.5	Psychological tests and testing
BF 180-198.7	Experimental psychology
BF 309-499	Consciousness. Cognition
BF 318	Learning
BF 318.5-319.5.V4	Experiential learning. Conditioned response
BF 321-323.V5	Apperception. Attention
BF 335-337	Habit. Adjustment
BF 370-387.N34	Memory
BF 408-426	Creative processes. Imagination. Invention
BF 431-433.S63	Intelligence. Mental ability. Intelligence testing.
BF 441-449.5	Thought and thinking
BF 455.A1-467	Psycholinguistics. Psychology of meaning
BF 501-505	Motivation
BF 511-593	Affection. Feeling. Emotion
BF 608-635	Will. Volition. Choice. Control
BF 636-637	Applied psychology
BF 636.5-636.7.S57	Counseling psychology. Counseling
BF 692-692.5	Psychology of sex. Sexual behavior
BF 697-697.5	Differential psychology. Individuality. Self
BF 698-698.9	Personality
BF 712-724.85	Developmental psychology
BF 719-720	Infant psychology. Newborn infant psychology
BF 721-723.W67	Child psychology
BF 724-724.3.W67	Adolescence. Youth
BF 724.5-724.85.S92	Adulthood
BF 795-839	Temperament. Character

R	Medicine
RC	Internal medicine
RC 321-571	Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RC 346-429	Neurology
RC 435-571	Psychiatry
RC 475-489	Therapeutics. Psychotherapy
RC 490-499	Hypnotism and hypnosis. Suggestion therapy
RC 500-510	Psychoanalysis
RC 512-569.5	Psychopathology
RC 512-528	Psychoses
RC 530-552	Neuroses
RC 554-569.5	Personality disorders. Behavior problems
RC 569.7-571	Developmental disabilities

WorldCat
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