Guides: PSY 690 Community/Clinical Research &amp; Service (Cantwell): Finding Journal Articles

Psychology Databases

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments in areas of psychology, education, business, and leadership.
First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 1 to the present. Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
From the American Psychological Association (APA), full text, peer-reviewed scholarly articles in psychology from 1894 to the present.
PsychiatryOnline This link opens in a new window
Portal featuring DSM-V-TR, plus a collection of psychiatric references and journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, self-assessment tools, and clinical & research news.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource of peer-reviewed articles in psychology, behavioral science and mental health.
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP Web) This link opens in a new window
Articles from psychoanalytic journals from 1920 with a three or five year embargo plus 100 books, including the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, and 100+ videos.

PsycTests
PsycTESTS is an electronic database providing descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching. Updated monthly, PsycTESTS includes a wide variety of test types: achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests, and more. These include previously unpublished measures, tests developed by psychologists for which no source document has been located, and information about published tests available from commercial publishers. [NOTE: To search only PsycTESTS, uncheck the box marked APA Books]

Databases for Learning Theory, Human Development & Education

Education Full Text
Provides full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of more than 770 periodicals dating back to 1983. Content includes in-depth coverage of special education and more than 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) This link opens in a new window
Access to literature and resources covering education topic from pre-K through graduate school, sponsored by the US Department of Education.
Child Welfare Information Gateway This link opens in a new window
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, covers topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, and adoption.

Psychology-Related Databases

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides access to over 500 scholarly full-text journals, including 436 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for 829 journals. Full-text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
Health Source : Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides access to over 500 scholarly full-text journals, including 436 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for 829 journals. Full-text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
Medline/Pubmed
Covers medicine, nursing, dentistry and the pre-clinical sciences and includes bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The file contains over 22 million citations dating back to the mid-1950's. Most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. More than 4,600 international clinical and research journals are indexed and abstracted.
Science Direct
Provides indexing and abstracting for over 2,500 scientific, technical and medical journals as well as access to 503 full-text Elsevier journals, and titles subscribed to by Pepperdine University Libraries, through the SCELC consortium, plus 45 titles in the Psychology backfile.
Scopus
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.

Scoops is the only database that allows you to sort results by number of times cited

PSY 690 Community/Clinical Research & Service (Cantwell)

Head, WLA Campus Library, Graduate School of Education and Psychology Liaison

Psychology Databases

Databases for Learning Theory, Human Development & Education

Psychology-Related Databases