Research Guides: PSYC 111: Intro To Psychology: Finding Articles

Recommended Resources

Psychology Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Psychology Journals provides complete information from more than 400 top psychology and related publications. Almost all offer full-image and text format.

For general academic articles:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Premier is a general coverage database providing full-text access to thousands of scholarly journals across a wide range of disciplines, including history, social science, library science, computer science, language and literature, art, education, and life sciences.
Expanded Academic ASAP This link opens in a new window
Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Tip: Go to Advanced Search, then scroll down the page and check the box next to Psychology to search only Psychology journals.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Be aware that many of the results that Google Scholar returns are not peer-reviewed journal articles. Still, it can be a helpful tool for searching a broad range of sources that go beyond those available in library databases.

For medical articles:

PubMed Central (PMC) This link opens in a new window
PubMed Central (PMC) is a subset of full-text articles included in the PubMed index. PubMed Central is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed. Also includes a medical dictionary.